In final week’s episode of Two EdTech Guys Take Questions Rushton and I answered a query about alternate options to utilizing Google search. What we failed to emphasise is that Google affords a variety of search instruments that college students typically overlook or do not even learn about. Some of my favorites of these are highlighted and demonstrated beneath.
Ngram Viewer
Google’s Ngram Viewer is a search device that college students can use to discover using phrases and names in books printed between 1800 and 2019. The Ngram Viewer exhibits customers a graph illustrating the primary look of a phrase or title in literature and the frequency with which that phrase or title seems in literature since 1800. The graph relies on the books and periodicals which might be listed in Google Books.
The Ngram Viewer will allow you to examine using a number of phrases or names in a single graph. The instance that I give in this video is to match using the phrases “National Parks,” “National Forests,” and “National Forest Service.” By wanting on the Ngram Viewer for these phrases I can see that they begin to seem extra often round 1890, have a lull within the Nineteen Forties and Nineteen Fifties, after which seem extra often once more within the Sixties.
Ngram Viewer relies on books listed in Google Books. That is why beneath each graph generated by Ngram Viewer one can find a listing of books about every of your search phrases. Those books are organized by date.
A 3rd element of Ngram Viewer to notice is that it really works with a number of languages together with English, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Russian, Hebrew, and Spanish.
Google Books
Google Books helps college students find and search inside books with out having to trace down a bodily copy of every e-book that they’re fascinated with studying. If college students do need a bodily copy of a e-book, Google Books may help them discover a native library that has a replica of the e-book they want. Those options of Google Books and extra are demonstrated in my video Five Things Students Should Know About Google Books.
Google Dataset Search
Google Dataset Search is a search device that’s designed to assist customers find publicly obtainable datasets. This is not a device for looking inside the datasets, it is a device for locating datasets. For instance, should you’re doing analysis on earthquakes and need to discover some datasets to research, Google Dataset Search will provide help to find datasets that you would then open and or obtain to research. Watch the next brief video to see how one can use Google Dataset Search.
Search for Public Google Docs
Refining Google searches in accordance with area is one in every of my favourite methods to get college students to look past the primary couple of pages of their typical Google search queries. Students can specify website or area in Google’s superior search menu to restrict outcomes to people who are solely from top-level domains like .edu. They may also specify a subdomain like docs.google.com. In reality, that is a good way to seek out publicly shared Google Documents. It additionally works for locating publicly shared Google Slides, Forms, Sheets, and Drawings. Watch this brief video to discover ways to discover public Google Workspace information.