September's
Back to School Scavenger Hunt is all about Harry Potter and his own back to school adventures: Hogwarts, professors, school, books, and more. Test your Web search skills! Here are some more resources to help you out:
- Top 10 Web Search Tricks: There are Web search techniques that I use every day in order to find what I'm looking for. While this is by no means an exhaustive list, I've put together just a few of the Web search tricks that I use to search more of the Web.
- Pick a Search Engine: With one hundred different search engines to choose from, you're sure to find one that works for you.
- Seven Habits of Highly Successful Searchers: Every time I need to find something on the Web, I am successful. Right? Uh, not exactly. Eventually, I get to where I'm going, but it takes some work sometimes. Over the years I've developed a few search habits that have made me a more effective searcher, and with just a little practice, you can too. After all, searching the Web is a snap - it's actually finding what we're looking for that's the trick!
Looking for the best free downloads for back to school? Here's where you'll find a few great free downloads that you can use to go to the head of the class in my article titled
Back to School Guide to Free Downloads.
More help with back to school
- Use MySpace to Find High School Classmates: Did you know that you can use MySpace for free to find high school classmates? Find out more.
- Get School Information with Rate My Teacher: One of the best ways to find out about a school is other parents. Rate My Teacher is a site that both parents and kids can use to find out the inside information about both schools and instructors.
- Education World: Education World is an extremely deep site that not only has a search engine focusing only on educational and teaching-related Web sites, but also has extensive resources for educators and parents. It's an excellent site that has been around now for about ten years, and should be on every teacher's "Must Have" list of online bookmarks.
