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Search Engines: A Primer on Finding Information on the World Wide Web.

Maddux, Cleborne – Educational Technology, 1996

Presents an annotated list of several World Wide Web search engines, including Yahoo, Infoseek, Alta Vista, Magellan, Lycos, Webcrawler, Excite, Deja News, and the LISZT Directory of discussion groups. Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are included. Discussion assesses performance and describes rules and syntax for refining or limiting a search.…

Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking

Encyclopedias on CD-ROM: Two Orders of Magnitude More than Any Other Educational Software Has Ever Delivered Before.

Becker, Henry Jay – Educational Technology, 1991

Describes three encyclopedias available on CD-ROM: (1) Grolier's Electronic Encyclopedia; (2) World Book's Information Finder; and (3) Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia. Ideas for how they might be used in the classroom are suggested, information retrieval versus motivation is discussed, learning processes are examined, and stand-alone versus…

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education