Steve's "Ground Rules"  (which are not really rules at all):

• Questions and group problem-solving are encouraged
• Use multiple search engines
• Don't choose the first, or any result, arbitrarily.  Read through the site!!
• Be cognizant of the ads and other e-junk flying at you on the screen
• Use the "cheat sheets" and other handouts
• Write your answers on this page. Just save it to your desktop, open it in Word or Composer, make your changes, and send me the file as an attachment.  I'll share the responses with the group (those you don't post by e-mail yourself!!)

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• The American Musicological Society
• The Lute Society of America
• The Mozart Project
• The American Brahms Society
• The Theatre Library Association
• The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
• Find any website that has a good description of the guitar-like instrument called the Chapman Stick.

Now go back and search for words in the organizational/instrument names, but use a + sign, instead of quotes.  How did your results change?  Are they better or worse?
 

Guided Exercise #2

Use the + sign effectively to locate websites that solve the following problems. Write down the answer to the problem, where appropriate, and record both the URL and the date you visited the website.  Remember:  Each student's results may be different.  There are no wrong answers.
 

Find a website that discusses, lists, or reviews some aspect of  the repertoire for the piccolo trumpet.
 

Find a website that offers some good information about the early instruments called the cornetto and the sackbutt.
 

Find a review (of a concert, recording, it doesn't matter) of any Handel opera.
 

Guided Exercise #3. Use both the + sign and ""s appropriately to solve the following problems.  For each problem, record:

• the search strategies you typed in
• the URL of the website that you feel answers the question
• the answer, if applicable
• the date you visited the site

Many search engines let you include a multimedia file type in the search string (i.e. into what you type into the search engine).  You can limit your search results that include audio clips by including one of the following in your search-- type them along with your keywords
+.mid
+.mpg
+.ram
+.wav

Knowing this: Find and listen to any Chopin Etude on the Internet.
 

Find the lyrics to the Earth, Wind, & Fire hit September.  Here are a few lines from the song (not in order) to help you phrase search:
"Do you remember the 21st night of September"
"Ba de yah, say do you remember"
"Never was a cloudy day"
 

Write down how your results differed with each search engine.  Which, if any, worked consistently well, or poorly? Looking back, what search strategies might you have changed?  Please elaborate in two or three sentences.