AECOM Faculty Retreat Appropriate and Effective Use of Computers in Education

Search Workshop Comments

These comments are incomplete. They refer to the group assigned to evaluate various web search sites for finding educational material. They are taken from my sketchy notes of the conference presentations. I'm hoping for more complete notes from the group's facilitator.

• There were differences in terms of which search sites were easiest to use (excite and hotbot where easiest to use).
• The overall impression generated within the group was that there was a great deal of material out on the web and that finding it is not all that hard.
• Some sites may request that "plug-ins" and "helpers" be"downloaded". In most cases there is not reason to fear doing this and it is always safe to do on a public room computer (although there is no garuntee it will work).