Googlewhacking is a game, played on Google, where you try to search something that only gets 1 hit, 'the perfect 1'.
First of all, some rules.
You can only use two words.
No proper nouns.
They have to be real words.
Proper spellings only (you might want to check your phrase on Word or something before whacking)
The words must appear in Google's dictionary (if they do, then they'll be underlined in blue at the top of the page after you search)
No putting quotes around the words.
Google gives you a little blurb of the page that the words came up on. If it's just a list of words that the two happen to appear in, then that page doesn't count.
2. Go to Google. (obviously) 3. Enter a two word phrase of your choice. 4. See how many hits come up! 5. If you get more than, say, 100, then modify your phrase or start with new words!
Tips
Use unusual words, such as calcography and chinchilla. It gets fewer results.
You might want to record some of your best whacks for future reference.
Try mixing different combo's of parts of speech, i.e. adjective with verb, noun-on-noun, etc. But remember- unusual words are key.
Today is the final day I will be out for the TIES Conference. Many of you are probably finishing up your Million Dollar project. When complete, you are going to become home designers, at least for a day.
The program you are going to utilize is called Google Sketchup 6. Travel to Project Central for additional information.
Today you will begin your first project. We will be using some tutorials from Atomic Learning to complete the project. Follow the link below for detailed instructions. (Atomic Learning works best in Safari)
Type to Learn (10 min) Complete email poll (on sidebar) Respond to the Cyberbullying Video. Complete TILT Cyberbullying. Watch OS X tutorials. Finish cleaning Documents folder.
We have come to the final day your 6th Grade Digital Literacy adventure. Hopefully, the things we have worked on this trimester will benefit you throughout the rest of your school year. I'll see you again in class next year as 7th Graders. Have a wonderful rest of the school year.
Mr. Madson
p.s. Your task today is to clean your room. I will be checking with each of you to make sure your Deep Portage project is saved in a safe location and any extra files or images (funny cats) are deleted.
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