[LM_NET] Hit: yolink

[Jeff & Karen Walstein <mets53@COMCAST.NET>]

I posted an inquiry on yolink and didn't get much feedback.  So, I played 
and researched and this is what I have found:

For those of you that don't know what yolink is:  It is "downloadable add-on 
for internet browsers.  It searches the hyperlinks on any web page or Google 
search and displays them as chunks" (from Wikipedia). It basically searches 
through the search.  The other nice thing it does is you can view a book 
on-line, type in a search phrase and yolink will find the paragraph where 
the search words are.  You have the option of searching for the exact phrase 
or for the words to appear anywhere in the phrase.  It will also search a 
database search such as Ebscohost.  Another neat thing yolink does it will 
send the paragraphs you select to Google docs and it will create a citation 
in Easybib.



One caveat:  it saves a lot of search time BUT you have to know how to 
search before you can make your searching better.   You wouldn't use yolink 
if you wanted the answer to a simple question like what is the capital of 
France?  It's helpful for deeper searching.

You must install yolink on each computer that will be using the 
free-service.  It takes about 6.9 mb and does slightly slow down loading the 
home page.  Yolink does provide assistance if you want to download it to a 
group of computers.  If you don't or can't download it, it is built into a 
search engine called http://www.sweetsearch.com/



Finally, Kevin Butera (kevin.butera@tigerlogic.com) from yolink was very 
helpful.  He even did an on-line demonstration just for me.  He is open to 
anyone that would like to email him with questions or do a demo.


Here are some links:



http://bit.ly/aGii6r



http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/iste/index.jsp



Teacher prepared lesson plans and presentations, and Creative Commons' 
latest search literacy curriculum.
http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/iste/index.jsp

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