Module4

**United States Immigration Policy from Plymouth Rock to the Present **
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 * In this unit on Immigration, you will be using a Google Custom Search to gather information on US Government policy in the time period you choose as well as current practice.**

This custom search is designed for High School Social Studies classes. American History classes study the immigrant experience, focusing on Ellis Island. I hope to use this search when we reintroduce Civics into the HS curriculum. Included in this search are timelines citing the history of immigrants, government policy in the past, current regulations on immigration, as well as information on how to become a citizen.

4.3: Search Strategies:
 * Reichenbach_4.3_mu5541 **
 * Keyword Planning **


 * Organizer 1: **

Brainstorming keywords, phrases, synonyms. Please u se truncation and quotation marks when appropriate  “learning commons” || Keyword 2:
 * Your Question: **
 * Keyword 1:

“virtual learning commons” || Keyword 3:

“David Loertscher” ||
 * Synonym(s) 1:

“school library”

library || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Synonym(s) 2:

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">“online library”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">“online school library”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">“online databases”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">VLC || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Synonym(s) 3:

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">n/a ||

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.33px;">Words your results must, might, mustn’t have <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Virtual <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Learning <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Commons  ||  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Might: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Online <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Digital || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Mustn't:   <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> -school <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">-district ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.33px;">Organizer 2: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.33px;">Bernie Dodge 3M Chart: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Must:

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">*I am hoping that by eliminating the words “school’ and “district” I will reduce the number of school library websites I encounter.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.33px;">Share your search thinking and refinements as you interact with the search engine <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">(number/quality of hits & comments) ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.33px;">Organizer 3: **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.33px;">Google Search Log **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Strategies **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> (identify your strategies incorporating knowledge built from the readings/viewings for this Mod): || **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Results **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">First Google search statement/query:
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Learning Commons (first attempt without quotation marks)

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">This was a shot in the dark, but I wanted to test the waters and see actually how many results I got for this. || * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">About 45,900,000 results: Initial results were for physical spaces within libraries designated as the learning commons. Most were for colleges, universities and private schools. The second result was a Wikipedia entry for Learning Commons. The third result was Google Images of physical spaces designated as a learning commons || <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> || * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">10,300 results: The first seven hits were directly related to David Loertscher and the VLC. One about a free course. A School Library Journal Article about this was there as well. The next few sites tried to sell me his book. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Google provided only the most relevant results, but gave an offer to redo the search with the omitted options <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> || * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">25 results. Some links to articles in professional journals. One link is dead. A few are listings for conferences, and a couple of catalogs with Loertsher’s books. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Second Attempt:
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Using quotation marks this time, “Learning Commons” || * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">About 2,430,000 results. The first sets of results were identical to the search without quotation marks, although the number of results decreased drastically. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Third Attempt:
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">“Virtual Learning Commons”
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> || * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">227,000 results: After the ad for ‘etemplates,’ <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">the first three results were Google sites. The fourth attempt suggested searching for ‘VLC templates.” ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Fourth Attempt:
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Allintitle: Virtual Learning Commons
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> || * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">1,540 results: Mixed-bag of results. Some were commercial, a few were library sites, and a few resulted in articles in professional journals. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Fifth Attempt:
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">“David Loertscher” and ”Virtual Learning Commons”
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Sixth Attempt:
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">“David Loertscher” and ”Virtual Learning Commons” and VLC

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> || * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">23,800 results. Most of the initial results were school sites. If the first few results are not appropriate to my needs, then the search needs to be refined again. I will go back to the fifth attempt and use this for research. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.33px;">Share your search thinking and refinements as you interact with the search engine <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">(number/quality of hits & comments) || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Google Advanced Search:
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">About 6,090 results. I prefer this result, the initial search with these terms was too limiting. I question using Loertsher in the search query at all, since I get so many commercial hits that want to sell me his book. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Seventh Attempt:
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">“Virtual Learning Commons” or VLC
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.33px;">Google Search Log **
 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Strategies **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> (identify your strategies incorporating knowledge built from the readings/viewings for this Mod): || **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Results **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">First Google search statement/query:
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Virtual Learning Commons –school –district
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Limit results to the past year || * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Search eliminated school library sites
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Still and unmanageable number of results, I stopped browsing at page 24. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Second attempt, Google Advanced Search
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Same as the first search, except Virtual Library Commons is in quotes. || * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Results limited to 10 pages ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Third attempt Google Advance Search
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">“Virtual Learning Commons”
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> –school –district
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;"> online OR digital
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Limit results to the past year || * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Limited results to 10 pages
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Located an excellent PowerPoint on the implementation and effectiveness of a VLC in a Texas University ||