Journal #1

The article “Your Google Guide” by Doug Johnson gives simple suggestions on how to improve your Google search results. Although most of the suggestions are widely known it is a very informative article. The article gives twelve steps on how to make a search more effective. Some of the steps that I found useful were: interpret your search results, put your search in the form of a question, and learn to use operators effectively. What I learned from this article was to sign up for Google Librarian Central Newsletter.

As future educators, how important is learning how to use search engines like Google?

It is very important to learn how to use search engines like Google. As technology advances, as teachers it is important to be able to learn how to effectively search the internet so that we can teach our students. The author emphasis this by stating “I really do hope that the school media specialists reading this column have learned nothing new, that as the information specialists and the search experts in our schools, we have long since mastered the basics of Google and other search tools.”

Is this article suitable for teachers only?

This article has a lot of useful information for both the teachers and the students. I think that teachers should read it as well as the students. I believe that I can use this article as a teacher for my students because it is very easy to understand and at the same time entertaining.