Week 2 Web Searching

It's almost the end of week 2. What are the results?
This week I've spent much more time surfing the Internet than recently. Our task was to do web searching and discuss our experience.
After thorough reading of Tips and strategies for better searches I rushed to explore the Net. We were given very useful Noodletools www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html which can help everybody and especially teachers to reach thousands of on-line resources such as virtual libraries, on-line media and language reference material: free full-text electronic books, journals, reports, maps, blogs and articles from leading world publishers. We can find a wide range or databases in the fields of education, management, business, media and etc. To be successful we were supported with the secrets of effective Internet search strategies. I've learned and brushed up how to formulate a search statement using Boolean operators and navigate my way through directories, databases, portals and web logs., and thus, make my search quick, easy and efficient. http://www.uoregon.edu/~dhealey/techtips/june2009.html The most valuable tool for on-line research is the search engine. Different search engines use different algorithms to determine the order in which pages are listed. I discovered (to well-known www.google.com, www.rambler.ru, www.yahoo.com, www.aport.ru, www.yandex.ua and www.meta.ua) a new metasearch engine Clusty – http://clusty.com/ for myself.
It can be useful in searching a large number of papers.
Then it has taken me great time and I've always wanted even more to look at the sites with specific information for my profession:
- some professional journals, which focus on the theory and practice of language teaching http://iteslj.org/;
- virtual libraries - http://scholar.google.com.ua/, http://www.worldcat.org/ - to find and order full-text articles free and on a commercial basis;
- numerous lists of on-line periodicals http://www.newspaperindex.com/,
radio programs http://www.publicradiofan.com/, as appropriate sources of reading and listening material for students;
- media sites with special sections for teachers and learners, with sample lessons http://www.sitesforteachers.com/, http://www.apples4theteacher.com/;
- Web sites created by museums http://wwar.com/, http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ as valuable source of information about art and art museums around the world for Country Study lessons
- database of movies http://www.imdb.com/, http://video.search.yahoo.com/,
http://www.truveo.com/, http://www.archive.org/details/movies - real wealth for teaching
- English language dictionaries on-line - http://education.yahoo.com/reference/, http://www.merriam-webster.com/, http://www.wordcentral.com/
- kid-friendly sites http://www.kidsclick.org/, http://www.askkids.com/ my favorite precious area for young learners. (To tell the truth I like playing, doing quizzes and watching cartoons myself).
These are just several examples from a huge field of my future exploration given by Noodletools and our dear colleagues Azhar,Stephen,Camelia and others.
Thank you, everybody, for your help! We are not wasting our time this summer!
Here is a video about Searching Strategies in Plain English: