Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Week 8 - Search challenges

This week you will continue to practice your web searching. You will use more of the activities found on the 21st Century Information Fluency site.

First read the micromodule on search strategies here: http://21cif.com/tutorials/micro/mm/searchbox/

Next go to the Search Challenge-I list.
http://21cif.com/rkit/actionzone/index.html

Complete the Kermit and Lego search challenges first. In a comment for each of your search challenges, report your time and your level of success. What process did you use to figure out your search? What worked well? What did not work well?

If you have time or interest, choose further challenges from the list of intermediate searches. Report your process.

Have fun and happy searching!
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9 comments:

  1. romanMarch 29, 2011 at 9:22 AM

    I devised a search by using main words such as Lego Land, California, model builders 2003. I finished my search in than 1 minute and 18 seconds! The time to beat was 9 minutes.

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  2. romanMarch 29, 2011 at 9:48 AM

    I tried really hard on the Kermit challenge but I got Stumped. I guess it was just the fact that I couldn't get the url

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  3. ClaireMarch 29, 2011 at 1:58 PM

    I feel I did well on the Kermit challenge. I completed it in 3 minutes and 10 seconds. I took the information I got from the picture and put it into the Google search bar. "Kermit graduation picture and audio"

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  4. ClaireMarch 29, 2011 at 2:06 PM

    At first I bombed on the Lego challenge because I didn't narrow down the search words well enough and came up with the wrong URL in 49 seconds. I tried it 2 other times and did even worse.

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  5. ElissaMarch 30, 2011 at 8:22 AM

    I got the kermit challange in under two minutes but i got it wrong before i was able to get it correct. I got the lego challange right in one minute 50 seconds.i thought that they were both really easy

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  6. HaleyMarch 30, 2011 at 8:36 AM

    I got both wrong because i was searching for the wrong thing. I think that if I searched for the correct thing then it would be easier.

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  7. AnonymousMarch 30, 2011 at 9:35 AM

    The Kermit test was easy. I did that one in 21 seconds. But when I did the Legoland one I had trouble because I didn't know you had to answer with the names and not the URL. When I finally got it, it was 2 minutes 41 seconds. I tried using the words that wrapped up the whole question. This worked well.

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  8. sarahsawatzkyMarch 30, 2011 at 2:36 PM

    I only did the Kermit Challenge. I got it wrong the first time, but I got it the second time. Picture Kermit Frog and Kermit frog graduation didn't work. Kermit Frog Graduation Speech did work. I did it in 8 minutes and I though it was pretty hard.

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  9. sarahsawatzkyApril 17, 2011 at 8:19 PM

    Three people one the Legoland challenge;

    Nathan Sawya
    Kristi Klein
    Aaron Sneary

    Here is the link that we found the answers at;

    Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_got_the_job_as_a_model_builder_at_the_Californian_Legoland_theme_park#ixzz1JqCPO48o

    My dad says that this is the right answer, we just didn't find the URL that you had in mind. I will get help from you as soon as I can.

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