Learning in a digital age/LiDA101/Select open resources/Advanced search

Improving search skills will save you time and result in more productive searches. The Google search engine provides a number of features to improve your searches in finding open access resources.

Tasks

 * 1) Read the Google advanced search operators cheat sheet and try a few searches using the operators.
 * 2) Use the Google search operators (you enter these directly into the search text area) to:
 * 3) * Identify at least ten pdf documents which have Open Educational Resources in their titles. (Are they all accessible for download?)
 * 4) * Find a pdf version of the editorial entitled: Scholarship and literacies in a digital age (Who are the authors?).
 * 5) * Find the article with the following citation in text: the term digital literacies is contested with differing uses of the term revealing competing and even contradictory theoretical perspectives (Who is the author?)
 * 6) Visit the Google Advanced Search web interface:
 * 7) * Conduct a search for digital literacies and scan the results
 * 8) * Go back to the Google Advanced Search web interface and remove words from the search, for example "skills" or "school" and compare the results.
 * 9) * Click on tools and find results for the date range 1 May 2016 to 1 May 2017
 * 10) * Click on images and find versions which are licensed for reuse with modification (useful when sourcing images for your course blog with the necessary legal permissions for reuse).