Custom+Search+Strategies

Custom Search
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Wouldn't it be great to limit the sites that your students can search so that they are only using the sites that you choose for them? This would really eliminate a lot of needless searching and waiting by your students. Instead, that time could be put towards investigating sites that you know are safe, reliable, and full of the resources they need.

Google Custom Search Engine lets anyone create their own search engine by selecting the sites you want to include in the student's search and publishing it either as a website or as a small add-on to an existing website, like Schoolwires. Here is a brief guide to what you need to do: 1. Go to [|Google for Educators].

2. On the upper left-hand side, choose "Tools for your classroom."

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3. When you do that, the next page will contain a section that says "Newly Featured Products, and among those you will find "Custom Search Engine":

4. After clicking on that link, you will be taken to a page that explains what the CSE does. Once you read through that, find the link in the first paragraph that says //Google Custom Search Engine//. Click on it.

5. When you do, you will be prompted for your Google password.

6. Next, you will be take to a page that contatins this Click on the big blue button.

7. Fill in the basic information, including name of search engine, description, keywords, sites to search, etc.

8. Next you will taken to a page where you can decide how you want to display your search engine. If you choose homepage, you will be taken to a page like [|this]. If you choose control panel, you will be taken to a page that gives you HTML code to insert on a page of your choosing. [| My examples]