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The Snake: A River in Trouble? Module 11 More Effective Search Strategies In order to find additional resources that might help you decide what the new president should do about the Snake River, you will now develop effective search strategies to speed you to good information on the Net. Surfing may be fun, but students may spend most of their time looking and little time reading, thinking or understanding. Have your own students been shown how to search for pertinent information on the Net? Without such skills, how efficient can they be? How will they overcome Infoglut?     Time to learn and practice the following search techniques:  1. Question and draw before you search  6. Go to the source  2. Learn the syntax  7. Be discrete  3. Learn the features  8. Cull your findings  4. Start big and broad  9. Be playful  5. Browse before grazing  10. Use only the best You will now return to the Table of Contents TOC in order to learn Power Searching. You will start in the Green Modules with the Introduction - Searching for the Grail? Power Searching with Digital Logic. Later you will return to Module 12 of the Snake River investigation when your workshop facilitator instructs you to do so. Please do not proceed to the next module until asked to do so. Next module Credits: The drawings, photographs and graphics are by Jamie McKenzie. Some pictures are public domain from the Army Corps of Engineers. © 2000, Jamie McKenzie, all rights reserved. Copyright Policy: These pages may not be duplicated, distributed, redistributed or republished in any manner without express permission.