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@Effective searching strategies Effective searching strategies will help to eliminate unnecessary search hits and increase higher productivity skills. Research skills are used in all curriuculums at any grade level.

Independent searching skills Less hits on a search More specific topic searching skills
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Google docs Google docs provides a quick and easy way to collect data, perform surveys or polls and sort the data easily online. To access google applications you must have a free google account. Google forms can be found under CREATE NEW. There are numerous themes to visually enhance your forms. There are a variety of questions that can be asked in a form such as text, paragraph, multiple choice, checkboxes, choose from a list, scale, or grid. As soon as the form is submitted the data is collected in a spreadsheet according to the question. All the data can be sorted. Here is a form to try...fill in the form and watch the big screen for the responses.

quick quiz/ exit ticket: responses could be discussed before leaving pre-reading activity or brainstorming session drawing non-linguistic representations to accompany vocabulary writing collaboration: each person in the group adds one sentence data collection: students could collect their own data to use in math problems easy poll machine
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Wall wisher: Wall wisher is a great way to quickly generate some formative assessment on any topic. Open a wall in wallwisher and pose your topic to the class. The class can take turns making a sticky note and posting it. The posts could serve as brainstorming sessions, a springboard for a discussion or as formative assessment to see if the objective has been obtained. This is a free account. A screen capture can be made of the wall and saved to an H drive or G drive folder for review later. Give the wall a try. Click here.

brainstorming ideas visually posting of ideas in response to a question group collaboration
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[|Sample Non-fiction WallWisher]

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