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Enhancing Education with Google Custom Search

Discover the benefits of Google Custom Search for creating tailored search engines for educational use. Learn how to find reliable websites, create personalized search pages, and share links via eChalk.

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Enhancing Education with Google Custom Search

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  1. GoogleCustom Search Sharing web resources across the District

  2. GoogleCustom Search • What is a GCS • Advantages • Creating a GCS for a campus • Sample websites • Finding reliable websites • Posting a GCS link to eChalk

  3. What is a GoogleCustom Search? • Personalized, customizable search engine • Searches only across sites that you specify • Displays results that are right for your students • Gives you a landing page with a unique URL • Invite friends and colleagues to collaborate and contribute to your search engine • Provides your own search refinements within results pages so it's easier for your users to find the information they're looking for. • Allows you to easily add more sites to your search engine's index

  4. Advantages • Allows students access child-safe sites • Creates unlimited custom search engines (CSE) for the educational community • Reflects specific subjects, interests, and purposes • Includes web resources for teachers and students • Hosts the search box and results on the school’s or District’s own website • Enhances its usefulness to your community • Customizes the look and feel of the results

  5. Garcia Elementary Student Search Site

  6. Google_Custom Search Video

  7. Sample Websites • For Students & Parents • Homework Help • Academic Interactive Websites (funbrain.com) • Academic Games (spellingcity.com) • Online Resources (visuwords.com) • Resources for Topic Research (DKC) • For Teachers • Resource sites (http://www.science-class.net) • Lesson Plans • Creators (www.flashcardmachine.com) *Can duplicate

  8. Reliable Websites • Step 1: Seek government or educational websites (.edu and .gov) • Step 2: Determine creditability of site • Step 3: Find publication dates & keep current • Step 4: Scan links to other sources for use • Step 5: Evaluate the intentions of information (bias)

  9. How? • Collect student and teacher resources from your campus via email, Google docs, form, faculty meeting, etc. • Create the Google Custom Search page for students/parents and teachers • Submit the Custom Search page links to campus eChalk representative

  10. Announcements

  11. Student

  12. Campus

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