Surf Safe, Surf Smart: Tips For Searching The Internet you need, but youre not quite sure where to start searching, NoodleTools can onthe Internet, be sure to visit the Librarys special kids section, How to http://www.skokie.lib.il.us/s_kids/kd_surf/tips.html
Extractions: program calendars good reads for kids ask a librarian about almost anything The Internet is a bit like a giant shoe store filled with millions of shoes: theres so much to choose from, but you have to do some searching to find what youre looking for. And just like in the shoe store once you find something that might be exactly what you want, you have to try it on to see if it fits. The Internet works the same way: you can search for and find many websites with a lot of information, but you have to read through the information to see if it fits your assignment. Using UPPER CASE (capital) and lower case (small) letters Some search tools can tell if you are using upper case or lower case letters. If you search using only UPPER CASE letters, some search tools will only find words that use only upper case letters. If you search using both Upper Case and lower case letter, some search tools will only find words that use both upper and lower case letters. If you search using only lower case letters, all search tools will find words that use UPPER or lower case letters.
Brighton District Library - Kid's Castle - Web Searching For Kids For more information about safe search engines see the web) kidsClick's World of Searchingexcellent advanced Librarian's Guide to CyberSpace for Parents kids. http://brightonlibrary.info/kids/search.html
EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools Links | Safe Searching safe searching filter out unwanted material children from seeing objectionable materialwhen searching the entire web. Ask Jeeves for kids Need to teach the http://education.guardian.co.uk/netclass/schools/idliketousethenetbut/icantfindw
Extractions: Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Film Football Jobs Life MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Online Politics Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Travel Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The weblog The informer The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Crossword Dating Headline service Syndication services Events / offers Help / contacts Information Newsroom Style guide Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Guardian Weekly Money Observer AltaVista Family Filter is designed to protect children from seeing objectionable material when searching the entire web. Enable it by selecting "AV Family Filter" from the links below the main search box. Good for children who are experienced users needing more powerful searches. Ask Jeeves for Kids Need to teach the concept of searching without getting into complicated search commands? Ask Jeeves may be of some help. Enter a question and Jeeves will try to find the answer by pointing the way to some relevant sites. At Ask Jeeves for Kids the content of answers has been vetted. Excellent for beginners. Excite's Magellan
Home Important News! About FFS FFS Guidelines Add Your Site the danger of using the Internet. It teaches kids the skills theyneed to be safe when searching through the web. Tips for kids, http://www.familyfriendlysites.com/FamilyFriendly/viewcat_ws.asp?ID=241
ReferenceResources:SearchEngines AOL NetFind for kids Kidsafe searching, and resources for everythingfrom homework help, to hands-on science and MORE. IndianChild http://www.kidinfo.com/Search_Engines.html
Extractions: Reference Resources: Search Engines Learn How to Search the Web KidsClick! Worlds of Web Searching A great site geared to help students learn how to search the web to gain the information they need. Search Engines for Kids Awesome Library Educational Search Engine for Kids Study Web Search the collection of over 63,000 Research Quality URLs
Savvysearching.html as your kids develop book smarts and street smarts , they'll need to acquire search smarts the tricks of safe, constructive and efficient searching. http://www.childrenssoftware.com/articles/savvysearching.html
Extractions: Savvy Searching by Anne Collier Whether your child is five or fifteen, chances are he or she will eventually turn to the Internet for information. After all, it's a gold mine a bottomless treasure chest of facts, figures, news, games, trivia, homework help and more. But just as your kids develop "book smarts" and "street smarts", they'll need to acquire "search smarts" the tricks of safe, constructive and efficient searching. Here are some tips, along with recommendations on top-notch kids' search-engines. The Nitty-Gritty on Search-Engines To be Search-Savvy, you need to know which search-engines are best. Here's a comparison of seven kid-focused search-engines. Our research was conducted using real kids' queries, for instance, several of our testers were researching reports, one on Native Americans, another on black-footed ferrets. We also searched on kids' areas of interest, like Britney Spears and Pokemon. To explore each site's "safety", we searched on words like "sex". On a sad note: In years past, one of our favorite kids' search engines was Searchopolis. As of August, 2001, N2H2, the parent company behind Searchopolis, no longer offers this engine. Ask Jeeves Kids (CSR All Star Award Winner)
Net Family News: Online-Safe Resources For Kids And Families safe searching. Lycos.com, or other search engines that allow for filtered searching(see links kids can easily disable the filters, but hopefully they can be http://www.netfamilynews.org/resourcesoverview0110.htm
Extractions: Search this site! Filling online-safety gaps at home (October 19, '01 issue) When we interviewed Nick and his mom for last week's issue , Leonor asked us what online-safety software we'd recommend. Here's our one-size-fits-all answer, which has to be very basic and generic because there are as many "right" solutions as there are families. Ideally, we'd all discuss this together so we could consider different scenarios - for example, Nick and Leonor's and then Candy's more challenging one (with a proactively curious, technically sophisticated teenager at her house). But since it'd be tough to get you all in one room, let's start a virtual discussion here. Then you email us what works for your family, and we will gladly keep the conversation going! Basically, we think the very basic priority list for working out the best home online-safety formula should look like this: People Software In other words, rules and/or family acceptable-use policies/contracts come first and are best hammered out by kids and parents together (see links below for samples). That said, we are not big fans of filtering software by itself - because kids can disable it, it can block out useful content, and blocking criteria are based on a software company's values, not your family's). But using some *forms* of filtering with some other aids can be quite effective for families that need them, e.g.:
Net Family News: Online-Safe Resources For Kids And Families Site approval The kids are not allowed to go to any Web site without asking me forhomework, and then they have to tell me what they're searching for first. ; http://www.netfamilynews.org/resourcesnick0110.htm
Extractions: Search this site! A 10-year-old pundit on Internet use (October 12, '01 issue) Every now and then we profile a Net-literate family in this newsletter because the online-safety expertise of parents and kids hammering out family Internet rules together is often the best there is. Besides, one great kid's perspective is just the breath of fresh air we can all use these days! This week we talked with Nick, a very bright 10-year-old, and his mom, Leonor, in Utah, one of the westernmost Rocky Mountain states. Nick is the middle of three kids at their house - two Internet users and a three-year-old. He and his 12-year-old sister share one of the family's two connected computers, the one that shares a line with the family fax machine. There's also the regular phone line and a cable-modem-connected computer "strictly for business" in Leonor's office. We asked Leonor if the family has Internet-use rules, and she said, "We have lots of rules," adding that she never was crazy about the Internet "because of some of the things I've seen on it." So she worked these out before the children got their own connection last spring:
Coaching Kids - Get Ready The Spider's Apprentice Step Zero What to do Before searching. Alta Vista FamilyFilter Dino Search Google safe Search Intellibuzz kids Only Search http://www.iage.com/section1.html
* Lycos Safe Search (for Kids) Re-designed safe see the list of their content providers. safe Search (for kids).Advanced Lycos. Lycos now uses AlltheWeb for advanced searching. http://searchenginez.com/lycos.html
Extractions: S earching Engines Meta Search All the Web AltaVista Ask Jeeves Direct Hit Google InfoNetWare Looksmart Lycos for Kids Open Directory Teoma Walhello Wisenut Yahoo Find People Romance People Search Reverse Email Reverse Msngr Public Records Genealogy Credit Check Identity Theft Soc Sec # Aussie Job Search Book Search Web Search Domain Names Cheap Cds Mobile Phones Magazines Categories Computer Info Currencies Game Cheats Genealogy Health Images Jobs People Recipes Romance Science Shareware Translations Usenet Book Search Meta Search Price Robots Used Books Textbooks Magazines Coupons Advanced N.Z. Web Search News News Search Newspapers Shopping Auctions Books Hardware Magazines Movies Music Software Travel Video Games Yellow Pages Currencies Canada Web Search Reference Dictionaries Encyclopedias Maps / Places Translations Converters Webmasters $8 Domains Used Domains Whois Search Spy Submit URL Cheap Hosting U.K. Web Search This page: Tell a Friend Save it Locally Safe Search for kids is more than just a filter - and is very safe - see the list of their content providers Lycos now uses AlltheWeb for advanced searching International Lycos sites (with local content): Europe: Austria Belgium Denmark France ... UK Asia-Pacific: China Hong Kong India Indonesia ... Thailand Americas: Argentina Brazil Canada Chile ... Venezuela Lycos gets its name from Lycosidae, Latin for Wolf Spider, a ground spider that catches its prey by pursuit rather than using a web. Develped at Carnegie Mellon University, it is one of the oldest search engines, having been on-line since May 1994. In 1998 Lycos bought Tripod, the free webpage provider. Since April 1999 (when it surpassed Yahoo as most visited portal) its directory has been provided by Open Directory. They bought Hotbot in June 1999. In January 2000 it ditched its index and replaced it with Fast. Consequently it has become an amalgamation of sourced content, as opposed to its original innovations.
Safe Surfing With Students - Teachers Handbook Ask Jeeves for kids! (http//www.ajkids.com/) allows students to enter a questionin plain English. The same strategy applies if you are searching an index. http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/tech/internetsafety/searching.htm
Extractions: A few locations on the Web specialize in indexing Web pages. These sites go out and search millions of pages on the Web from time-to-time and store the results in a searchable database. The search usually includes a document's Title, Main header, first few text lines, and sometimes author or server location information.
Shop@McGruff-Safe-Kids.com searching searching for a product can be http://www.mcgruff-safe-kids.com/cgi-bin/checkitout/checkitout.cgi?mcgruffsSTORE
How To Search For Internet Resources To Use In A Lesson However, if you plan to send your students searching, use one of the Kidsafe searchengines below AOL.com for kids - A search engine that links only to sites http://www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us/admin/tlapages/search.htm
Extractions: links verified 05/24/02 Search strategies for finding resources to support a classroom unit try it out below Step 1. Choose a few search engines, and learn how they work Find 3 - 4 search engines that you are comfortable using and do most of your searches with them. This tutorial will use AllTheWeb, which also has a directory. If a site has not been submitted to the directory it will not be found. Nevertheless, I have found that AllTheWeb consistently gives me good results. If you wish to use a different search engine check out the list at the end of this page. There is also a list of Kid Safe Search Engines at the bottom of this page. Tip: Do not search with the Step 2. Open AllTheWeb We are going to open another browser window so you can switch back and forth from the AllTheWeb window to this window. If you are using a Macintosh click here and hold the mouse button down until a pop up menu appears. Choose "New Window With This Link". If you are using a Windows 95 computer click
Internet Searching For Children The main site, for both kids and their parents is safekids.Com. Visitthese sites often and stay safe. Search the library catalog. http://138.16.137.5/nptlib/InternetKids.htm
Extractions: Kid's Online Online Safety Search the Library Search the Internet How to be SAFE on the Internet You can learn almost anything on the Internet, but NOT ALL SITES ARE SAFE TO USE! Kid's Rules for Online Safety is an important site to visit and read BEFORE you do anything on the Internet. The main site, for both kids and their parents is SafeKids.Com . SafeKids.Com has a Netfamily News Newsletter that you can subscribe to for free, and an online safety quiz anyone can take. Visit these sites often and stay SAFE.
:: The Computer Works .NET :: teach children 8 through 12 the basics of searching the web Saluki Search Directoryof kidsafe web sites Search or browse categories, kids Search Tools Search a http://www.tcworks.net/search/kidssearch.htm
ReferenceResources:SearchEngines AOL NetFind for kids Kidsafe searching, and resources for everythingfrom homework help, to hands-on science and MORE. Ask Jeeves http://www.schoollink.org/twin/searching_the_internet_for_kids.htm
Extractions: Searching the Internet for Kids Learn How to Search the Web http://www.worldsofsearching.org/ : A great tutorial to help students learn how to search the web to find the information they need. Web Sites for Kids Awesome Library http://www.awesomelibrary.org/searchek.html Educational Search Engine for Kids Clip Art Search Engine http://www.webplaces.com/search/ Search for specific clip art
Web Surfing Tips safe surfing engines for kids The following searching engines will notbring back objectionable results. They are deemed safe for kids. . http://tlc.sbac.edu/WebResource/websurf.htm
Extractions: CNN CURRENT EVENTS FOR KIDS SURFNET FOR KIDS Ask Jeeves for Kids searching 4 kids ... UCSB RESOURCE LIBRARY The following resource is all inclusive for any and all searching styles. It includes Boolean searching techniques and describes when to use different searching techniques. Browse this resource and get real results from your searches every time! SEARCH ENGINE WATCH
Web Searching Presentation on searching the Internet and Internet Resources. Just for kids. Thesesearch tools claim to filter content to keep their sites safe for kids. http://www.ed.pdx.edu/courses/internet/today.html
Extractions: Virtual Libraries are similar to directories. Typically, they are resource lists which are organized similar to a library card catalog. Sites are usually chosen based on evaluations from subject area specialists. Because of this, these sites tend to be smaller than web directories. Examples of Virtual Libraries include: Internet Public Library World Wide Web Virtual Library WWW Virtual Libary: US Government Information Sources Charles Sturt University - Education Virtual Library ... These are lists of Internet sites/resources which are set up in a hierarchy of directories and subdirectories. A person can browse through the directories to find what they are looking for, or search using an accompanying search tool. At some point a person had to decide what the categories would be in these directories and where sites would fit or not fit within that organization. Some of the more commonly used directories include: Yahoo Librarian's Index to the Internet Search.com
Search Engines Ithaki kids Metasearch http//www.ithaki.net/kids/. OneKey kids safe searchinghttp//www.onekey.com/. Configure your search engine for kids' safe searching http://antilles.odedodea.edu/ais/search_engines.htm
Kid-Safe Search Engines Child safe Search Engines, Portal of kidsafe search engines, with brief descriptionof each. kids Tools for searching the Internet, A one-stop study resource http://www.mpsaz.org/at/kidsafe.htm
Extractions: K i d S afe Search Engines Description: S earch engine, study tools, news resources and games. Child Safe Search Engines Portal of kid-safe search engines, with brief description of each. Kids Tools for Searching the Internet A "one-stop" study resource that includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, plus websites for teachers and kids. Kid Safe Search Engines Portal with search engines, subject indexes, filtering options, and information for child safety on the web. Searching with Kids Portal of links to different search engines specifically for children. TekMom's Favorite Research Tools Includes search engines for kids, general reference tools, searches by topic (such as science or history), plus other research tools. Yahooligans! Kid's version of the Yahoo! search engine and directory.
