Searching and Search Tools

Conducting Research With Apture's Search and Share
Apture.com is a powerful free search bar, once installed, Apture puts the research all in one place, as students in a digital classroom never have to leave your classroom web site or blog.

Blekko is a web search engine whose goal is to provide better search results than those offered by Google Search Demo Video. For example: Search for educational blogs.

Topsy is a search engine for searching the social web. For example:Very useful for searching real-time tweets.

Wolfram/Alpha is more than a search engine. It gives you access to the world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics.

Custom search engines: Great for differentiated learning, have students search only the sites you have preselected.

Google Advanced Search: Improve your searching on Google