amazeinquiry

“The meaning of ‘knowing’ has shifted from being able to remember and repeat information to being able to find and use it.”   -  National Research Council , 2007 The internet is a daunting place in many respects. This post details my attempts to 'get my bearings' the expert searching maze. I admit to taking an (at times) rambling approach and, as though I was in a real maze, going back and forth between platforms and search engines a little, sometimes back-tracking when I found something worked in one and trying it out in another... This is necessarily a 'snapshot' of the process. Photo by  Maxwell Young  on  Unsplash Initial attempts - straight into the maze... Having learnt about Boolean operators and searching long ago (and having forgotten about it in the intervening years), I decided to incorporate this into my search terms map because I thought it would be a more useful starting point than simply typing my inquiry question into Google... Search T