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"The link: command is one of many strategies for revealing this information. When you are on a website, you can click on its outgoing links to see what other sites it links to. Unless you use the link: command, however, you cannot see which websites are linking into the website you are visiting."
 (p. 57)

I never knew you could do this!  What a useful tool.

Also...   in reading about creating your own search engine through Google, I thought we might want to use that as a "Pro Tip" in one of the upcoming Ed Tech News issues.  I bet teachers would love to be able to specify a group of sites when their students are researching for a project.  I can see how that would be very useful in terms of letting them do their own research, but making sure it's coming from sites you deem reputable.


"If we only teach one skill to prepare our students to survive in a web-based world, it should be that of critical thinking in the analysis of online information."  (p. 62)

I completely agree with this.  SUCH an important skill.  I actually worked with a fourth grade class a few weeks ago, showing them how to analyze Google search results and eliminate the ones that aren't going to be helpful in regards to what they're looking for.