Jennifer Dorman

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• Jennifer Dorman
• Central Bucks School District
• http//jdorman.wikispaces.com/netTrekker
• http//www.nettrekker.com

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What is netTrekker

• A search engine developed by teachers for
  teachers and students
• netTrekker websites are
• academically relevant
• educator reviewed and evaluated
• aligned to state and national standards
• rated by Readability level

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Registering
Get this from your districts contact
http//middle.nettrekker.com/userinfo/pa.epl
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Homepage Layout

• Elementary, Middle, High
• Features content applicable to level
• My Tools are the same regardless of level, though
  items may be customized to user preference
• Content organized by curriculum area with
  taxonomy strands

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Content Searching

• Keyword (web, person, image, standards)
• Search Result Layers
• Title, description, contents (icons), taxonomy
  string, overall rating, evaluator, readability,
  dictionary filter, ELL
• More Author/publisher, readability scale
  comparisons, multimedia contents, author/content
  credibility rating, subject depth assessment

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Readability Information

• Readability is a measure of the relative
  difficulty of reading written text, usually
  reported as a numerical value keyed either to a
  grade level or to a point scale.
• It is usually calculated using a mathematical
  formula that considers features of a given text,
  such as word length, incidence of multisyllabic
  words, and sentence length.

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• The netTrekker readability score is a composite,
  an average of the scores generated by four
  long-standing readability formulas and the Lexile
  Framework for Reading
• Automated Readability Index (ARI)
• Flesch-Kincaid Index
• Gunning Fog Index (GFI)
• McLaughlin SMOG Readability Formula
• Lexile Framework for Reading

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• Readability Information
• netTrekker measures websites for readability on a
  point scale of 1 to 5, where 1 corresponds to low
  reading difficulty and 5 corresponds to high
  reading difficulty.

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Refining Searches

• Refinement Tabs
• Lesson plans
• Learning exercises
• Learning games
• Maps/Charts
• Primary source
• Pictures, Audio, video
• Quotations
• Bibliographies
• Languages
• Biographies

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Refining Searches

• Cross Curricular Tab
• great for planning thematic integrations or
  helping students/teachers refine search results

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Standards Search

• By clicking on the Standards tab, content
  keywords can be searched to see where they exist
  in state standards and benchmarks
• Facilitates cross-curricular application of
  standards

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Saving Searches

• All searches can be saved for later reference
• Organizational folders can be created and shared
  with others in the school/district/state networks
• Search History saves the ten most recent searches

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Read Aloud

• The Read Aloud feature can be turned on and
  applied to any text on the netTrekker site or
  affiliated web resources

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• Features
• Timeline
• Famous Person
• Image Search
• References
• Teacher Tools

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• My Tools
• Profile
• Preferences
• Saved Searched
• Search History
• Help