Clusty

We explored different search engines in class Wednesday. I never realized most of the even existed. I never really varied from Google when I need to search for something, but now I will be using Clusty as well.

There are several unique features of Clusty that I really want to explore. I love how it "clusters" your results together by topic, sources, or site type. When I searched for information on The Westing Game, a book my seventh graders recently finished, I was really excited by the way they grouped the results. The box on the left-hand side of the screen sorts the results in so many ways! If I click on the "sites" tab, I can include only the type of sites I wish to view. I decided to look at only the ".edu" sites at first. That was really nice because I know that they won't be trying to sell me something if I click on to the site. The "clusters" tab is probably the one I will make the most use of when searching for activities to use in my classroom. It allowed me to look at the results for The Westing Game that were "resources and lesson plans" and "activities." This will save so much time searching. I won't have to look at a bunch of sites that don't include the information I am looking for!