Find Web Resources: Create a Collection on a Topic

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Choose a topic
• Think of a topic that you would like to focus on for a web activity - think about a content topic, not a grammar point. (The grammar will be embedded in a content topic.)
• This could be one of your favorite topics to teach, or maybe it's a topic that hasn't gone as well as you'd like in class - something that you would like to enhance a bit? 

Preparation
• Open your browser (Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari, etc.)
• Open a new document in Word (or other word processor)

Do a search
• Go to Google (or your favorite search engine) and do a search on your topic.
• When you find a good resource, copy the URL (address) of the page
• Paste the URL into your Word document
• Type a note or two about the page - what did you like about it? what would you have students do with it?
• Save your Word document

Search Tips Review (see Examples section)
• use “search engine math” to narrow down the hits you get
• pick one search engine and learn it well – use the “tips” or “advanced”
• write the search terms in the target language if you want webpages in the TL
• try a meta search engine (www.dogpile.com, www.momma.com)
• some search engines have specific search buttons for multimedia:  images, movies, sounds, etc.       

You might try A9.com to see a unique way of searching for various types of multimedia and information sources all together.