Class Handouts for teaching web searching

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial

Class Handouts
UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops

About This Tutorial | Table of Contents | Handouts | Glossary

What's New

We continually update the drop-in web searching workshops. For 2008 we are offering an updated session titled " Research-quality Web Searching: Google and Beyond," covering:

Techniques for making your Google searches more precise and for focusing on academic information.
Using other search tools and new technologies to improve your results.

Evaluating what you find for research quality.

Materials from our workshops are posted below. Reproduction and adaptation for nonprofit instructional purposes is allowed, providing any such versions include a credit line to "University of California, Berkeley Library." Anyone is welcome to link to these pages.

2008 workshop

2006/2007 workshops

Googling to the Max (PPT)
Beyond Google: Other Search Engines, Directories, and Evaluation of Web Pages (PPT)
Googling to the Max: Hands-on Exercises (PDF)
Table comparing Google Books and Google Scholar (PDF)
Beyond Google: Hands-on Exercises (PDF)
Evaluation of Web Pages Worksheets (PDFs)
- Version used in classes
- Generalized version adaptable to other topics
- Shorter checklist version

Quick Links

Search Engines | Meta-Search Engines | Subject Directories | Invisible Web