Thing 9: Databases

I looked at many of the options for this "Thing."   I have used Scoopit and have links on my library page for Scoopit.  I also have links on my library page for many of the Novel databases.  I like Groiler very much.  One of the products that I really liked was Kidrex, although the first two results were commercial sites selling things.  I think it looks very appealing to younger users and the results were user friendly.  I thought the results were more user friendly than the the way the results are shown for SweetSearch.  I read Celeste's comments about Power Search and between now and next week I'm going to go through the class.  I'm hoping to learn techniques to teach my students about searching.  The contest to get the least amount of hits sounds intriguing - sounds like a great lesson for my 6th grade boys - they love anykind of competition :)