[MACEP] searching with Google--appropriately

[Lynn Lary]

Ok, let me rephrase:

>The example that she had given was,
>>>  "bunnies" and sure enough nothing really related to rabbits came up
>>  when I searched for this word.

>I should have said, "the example that she had given was,
>  >> "bunnies" and sure enough nothing really related to rabbits
that would be helpful for a student searching for rabbit information."

  What  I got is below...however, the whole 
concept of one word searches is troubling.

Lynn
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Angry Alien Productions: 30-Second Bunnies Theatre and other cartoons.
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>I just did a search for "bunnies" with Safe Search on and it returned
>"rabbit" results for text, image, and video  (at least for the couple of
>pages of search returns that I spot-checked).
>
>We're using squidGuard to enforce "Safe Search", but the results should
>be the same if you manually set your search preferences to Safe Search.
>
>I'd be happy to share my squidGuard configs if anyone wants 'em. We have
>also been testing DansGuardian (http://dansguardian.org/?page=whatisdg),
>I'd be happy to share that as well.
>
>-Eric
>
>
>Lynn Lary wrote:
>>  Yes to both-I had it on Safe Search as did the school. We use Squidguard.
>>
>>  Lynn
>>
>>  At 3:32 PM -0800 2/7/07, Collver, Gregory wrote:
>>>  I am curious about two things that were not mentioned:
>>>
>>>  1. Did you use Goggle's Safe Search option?
>>>  2. What filtering software is being used and are you certain that it is
>>>  configured correctly?
>>>
>>>  Greg Collver
>>>  IT Manager / Programmer
>>>  Three Rivers School District
>>>  PO Box 160, Murphy OR 97533
>>>  541-862-3111
>>>
>>>
>>>  -----Original Message-----
>>>  From: macep-bounces at macep.net [mailto:macep-bounces at macep.net] On Behalf
>>>  Of Lynn Lary
>>>  Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:45 PM
>>>  To: macep at macep.net
>>>  Subject: [MACEP] searching with Google--appropriately
>>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>>  I had a conversation today with a person who told me that their
>>>  school is not allowing students to use Google because inappropriate
>  >> search results were coming up. The example that she had given was,
>>>  "bunnies" and sure enough nothing really related to rabbits came up
>  >> when I searched for this word.
>>>
>>>  My suggestion was that rather than block Google, perhaps the staff
>>>  should teach the students how to search effectively. Having students
>>>  enter a single word into a search engine and having both the teacher
>>>  and student think that this is a good search is a not a good thing.
>>>  When I suggested that perhaps they do a more meaningful search such
>>>  as bunny habitat, the results were vastly different than the initial
>>>  search.
>>>
>>>  My experience is that adults think that students know how (without
>>>  ever being taught) to search effectively. This just doesn't seem to
>>>  be the case...How can we get folks to understand that that it isn't
>  >> the tool, but the user, that is the problem?
>>>
>>>  Do any of you have a search curriculum that you are using at elem,
>>>  ms, and hs levels that you think is effective?
>>>
>>>  Thanks in advance.
>>>
>  >> Lynn
>>>
>