Reflection5

Reflection 5:

Reflection:

I believe the hardest part of this assignment was narrowing the choice of search engines to compare. I have used IPL in the past, but this exercise renewed my interest in using it with my students. I was very impressed by the quality of the sites it returned. I will introduce this to my students in the next school year. I enjoyed INFOMINE, and I am pleased to have a tool like this to use with my advanced classes. I often feel that my advanced students are at a disadvantage in my school. We spend so much time and effort adapting materials for students at the other end of the spectrum that the advanced students are truly left behind. This search engine will challenge them to conduct research at a higher level. I was disappointed with the Virtual Resource Learning Center. It appears—and may very well be—the result of a librarians work for their individual school. Now that I have learned how to create a Google Custom search myself, I believe that I will attempt this with some of the upcoming projects this school year.