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>Jo-Ann Benedetti wrote:
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>> An 8-hour course?  Some of us have to try to cram everything into an hour =
>> and a half!
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>> Which has led me to the revelation that I cannot cover very much material =
>> in such a short period of time.  I'm thinking of just covering  Yahoo, =
>> NorthernLight and HotBot, and then two subject-specific engines.  Any one =
>> else have to teach Web searching in a limited time frame?  What do you =
>> cover?

i am a lurker here, but have presented a 1 1/2 hour workshop on searching
the net aimed at the needs of translators. the search engines covered were
alta vista, northern light, hotbot and inference find. minimal reference
was made to the specialty engines: medline, lawfind, edgar, and less to
yahoo. the course was presented at the national conference for translators,
and was equally well-received by those who were familiar with the net, as
well as novices. a large portion of the workshop was devoted to special
tricks for translators (they learned how to translate the word hibiscus
into czech;-).
i will be presenting this workshop again at a local
translators/interpretors' chapter in seattle in march, and at an
international conference in belgium this summer (and possibly one in
sweden, don't know yet), which is why i lurk here to learn from the pros.

susan
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