BP4_Sweet Search

It’s amazing how oblivious I am to so many of the web 2.0 tools out there. From the website provided (www.go2web20.net), there were many e-learning applications I liked but I decided to pick Sweet Search for this assignment. I picked Sweet Search because I do periodically assign different research topics for my students. Sweet Search is an amazing search engine for students. Once a students begins a search they are provided with a list of selected website. Sweet Search provides students with several small sections from each webpage with the words they are researching. The students are allowed to select the portion that applies to their research. After selecting all the portions that will enable the students to complete their assignment. The students are then allowed to record or share the gathered information in different ways. One way to store the information is by bookmarking all the selections into a created folder by the student. The student is then prompted to the page the bookmark page by yolink. Another way to store and share the information is through google docs. Goggle docs would automatically creates a document for the student outlining all the sections and websites chosen by the student. This is my preferred method. When I use this with my students I will be asking them to post it to google docs and share the document with me as well as their group members. They also have the option of sharing the sections through social networks like: blogger, facebook, twitter or research applications like diigo, evernote or email. This tool is good because it’s a selective search engine, which is vital for high school students learning to do research. However the sharing capabilities are the amazing part of this web 2.0 application.