Awesome Visual Featuring 13 Important Google Search Tips for Students

February 7, 2015
Here is a new interesting visual on Google search tips that I want to bring to your attention. The visual features 13 practical features that would allow students to conduct smart and time-saving searches on Google. We have already covered these and several other tips in previous posts here in this blog, but it would not hurt to remind our students of the rules of Google’s search game.

The tips featured in this visual include:

• How to define a word 
• How to search for words in the same order
• How to exclude certain words
• How to search within a range of prices
• how to search within a website
• Fill in the blanks
• Search by file type
• How to set a timer
• Do math
• How to convert currency
• How to find a GIF
• How to search by title

Source of the visual: Veravo
Courtesy of Learning Infographics

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3 Important Google Search Tips to Help Students with Their Language Learning

January 28, 2015
Today I want to share with you three useful Google search tips that students can use to enhance their language learning and enrich their vocabulary. These tips are related to the use of Google’s integrated dictionary. There are actually three ways students can use Google’s dictionary right from their search bar: the first way is to search for definitions, the second one is for synonyms ( words with almost similar meanings) and the third one is for antonyms (words with opposite meanings).While I have been using the definition feature of Google for years now, it is only recently that I learned about the antonyms and synonyms functionality from a post by Drive Bunny which also inspired me to write this blog post.

1- Searching for word definitions
Google offers a quick and easy way to search for definitions of any term by simply typing “define” followed by the word you want defined. If you are using Chrome browser, you can do this right from the address bar otherwise you need to head over to Google and type in the search phrase in its search box. For instance, to look for the definition of the word ‘antonym’ type in “define antonym’ as shown in the screenshot below.

2- Search for synonym
Students can also use Google integrated dictionary to search for word equivalents.For instance if they are writing an essay and want to avoid being redundant by using the same word over and over. They can instead use one of its equivalent.
To look for synonyms on Google simply type in “synonym’ followed by the term whose synonyms you are looking for.

3- Search for antonyms
Similarly, students can use Google integrated dictionary to search for words that have opposite meanings. To do this they can type in “antonyms” followed by the word whose antonyms they are looking for.

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Excellent Google Search Tip to Use with Kids

November, 2014
One of the powerful features I like about Google is Safe Search. SafeSearch can help you block inappropriate or explicit images from your Google Search results. The SafeSearch filter isn’t 100% accurate, but it helps you avoid most adult content.

YouTube also has a similar functionality called YouTube Safety Mode. This is an opt-in setting available on the computer and mobile site that helps screen out potentially objectionable content that you may prefer not to see or don't want others in your family to stumble across while enjoying YouTube. You can think of this as a parental control setting for YouTube.

Here is how to turn SafeSearch on or off

• Visit the Search Settings page. 
• Find the "SafeSearch filters" section.
• Turn on SafeSearch by checking the box beside "Filter explicit results." When SafeSearch is on, sexually explicit video and images will be filtered from Google Search result pages, along with results that might link to explicit content.
• Turn off SafeSearch by unchecking the box. When SafeSearch is off, we'll provide the most relevant results for your search and may include explicit content when you search for it.
• Click Save button at the bottom of the page.

To prevent others from changing your setting, like your kids or anyone who is borrowing your computer, click Lock SafeSearch. Learn more about locking SafeSearch.

Check out Google help centre to  learn more about Safe Search.

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A Handy Search Tip Students Should Know About

October 31, 2014
Here is a pretty basic but very important search tip I want to bring to your attention today. Some of you might already be using it but I want you to share it with your students and help them search for information more efficiently. Using this search hack, students will be able to quickly find anything on a document, email or a webpage. This search tip involves the use of two keyboard buttons to bring up a small search box that will allow you to look for anything on the page you are on. Simply enter the word or phrase you want to look for and hit "enter". All the instances of that word will be highlighted in yellow. The combination for Mac users is "Command" + "F", and for Windows users "Control"+ "F".

 This search hack has several uses : You can use it to look for key words in an article, search for a specific term within page, look for the name of an author or character in a passage , and pretty much anything else you want to look for in a web page. Students can also use this hack when conducting a query in a search engine. They can click on search results and do a quick search to see whether the page has the search phrases they are looking for. Pretty basic but time-saving.

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