Searching for information, making your project outcomes searchable

These are the most common browsers enabling search for information:

 

 

 

RSS makes it possible for pupils to keep up with their favourite websites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually. RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. RSS content can be read using software called a "feed reader" or an "aggregator."

 

The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The pupils then check the subscribed feeds regularly for new content published in the framework of their project.

 

Some examples of aggregators:

 

 

Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to store, classify, share and search internet bookmarks. On a social bookmarking network, users store lists of internet resources that they find useful. These lists can be accessible to the public by users of a specific network or website. Other users with similar interests can view the links by topic, category, tags, or even randomly. Some example of social bookmarking tools:

 

 

Also some other tools enable users to tag (describe with appropriate keywords) the entries they publish on the web, and thus make them searchable for the others. If you make a video with your pupils, you can tag it and publish it on YouTube, for example. This way, people interested in the same topic may find it on the internet. Among these tools you find for example Flickr, Eduspaces, Blogger, YouTube and MySpace.

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