Super Sleuthing

What is Super Sleuthing?

Super Sleuthing is about:

=> searching the Internet faster

=> with greater relevance

=> including reaching into data bases not accessed in standard searches.

In Super Sleuthing seminars, webinars, and workshops, Geri Spieler teaches you how to design and implement your internet searches quickly and successfully.

Using the Super Sleuthing Process, you will learn:

How to define search criteria for clear results
The range of common and lesser known data bases to search
How to access the controlled data bases of the "Deep Web"
How different search engines generate different results
How to evaluate the credibility and reliability of a Website
Tools for finding information about people
How to avoid "unintentional" plagiarism

Super Sleuthing instruction is offered by Geri Spieler in several formats:
(Specially scheduled Webinars (ten attendees minimum), and private research assignments available).

Seminars, Workshops and Classes. Classes in which Super Sleuthing tools are taught in-person, based on an in-depth Power Point presentation, at sites ranging from college classrooms to library community rooms to bookstore reading rooms. By arrangement.

Workshops. Include both instruction in using Super Sleuthing tools and hands-on experience in searching. Participants bring and use their portable computers; workshops are offered, by arrangement, in locations with internet access.

Five Classes to choose from:

Class #1
SUPER SLEUTHING:

INTERNET RESEARCH SECRETS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW

But Few Do: A comprehensive workshop on how to conduct research on the Internet:

Reduce the amount of time you spend searching and find reliable information.

What you will take away:

11 unique "search engine strings" that go way beyond the typical "Google" search and cut your research time in half.
Discover over 100 research tools that include directories, databases, graphics, periodicals, government and references all free.
The 10 Best Online Research Apps/Sites You've Never Heard Of
How to find the Deep Web, 500 times bigger than the searchable Web.
Learn the critical difference of information from Free Visible Web, the Free Invisible Web and Paid Databases
How to avoid unintentional plagiarism.
10 strategies for detecting bad information and identifying the source.
How to organize your Internet search.
How to decode a Web address and detect Web site spoofing.

(PowerPoint presentation)

Class #2

High School Internet Research Class

High school students know how to use Facebook very well. However, Pew Research Studies reveal most high school students do not know how to use the Internet for effective research activity. Many students do not go beyond using Google as their main source of information. This practice is analogous to using one book for a research project.

I conduct a one and half hour PowerPoint presentation in which I go through a detailed explanation of the powerful options available to find verifiable and relevant research information. The presentation is given in an appropriate level for high school students.

Students receive a hard copy of key source lists. I use an interactive format in which questions are answered, and there is free discussion of the various methods presented.

Cost: $250.00 [for a 90-minutes presentation]

To maintain a reasonable class size, a second class can be scheduled, on the same site, on the same day, for an additional $200.

Faculty and staff members are, of course, welcome to attend. (PowerPoint presentation)

Class #3

Hand's On Internet Research Class--Bring your laptop and

search your projects for an individualized exercise.

Journalist and investigative reporter Geri Spieler shares her advanced

Internet research techniques that will cut your research time in half and yield reliable

and verifiable information.

Get tips on how to use search engine strings that go way beyond the typical Google search,
Tools that include directories, databases, graphics, periodicals, government documents, and references—all free.
Learn about the Deep Web, which is 500 times bigger than the searchable Web.

Class size limited to 10 participants

(PowerPoint presentation. In addition, students bring their own laptop. This class gives each student the opportunity to conduct their individualized research with direction and assistance from Geri)

Class #4

Why Facts Matter and How to Find Them

Whether you are writing fiction or non-fiction, your descriptions and references must be accurate. Never underestimate your reader. Facts, references and accurate details are critical examples of professional writers.

Examples:

Does a helicopter have wheels or skids?

What is the difference between a revolver and pistol?

Does it matter? You bet. You do not want an editor or reader to lose respect for your work and damage your credibility. Hear more examples of how inaccuracies lost writers jobs and literary contracts.

To avoid these mistakes, discover the top six research sites and facilities to find just about everything on anything.

(Lecture only)

Class #5

"Fact Finding for Fiction Writers:

Free & Easy Research Techniques to Pump Up Your Skills"

Fiction does not release a novelist from fact. Inaccurate detail will sink a book into the chasm of sloppy writing and lazy work habits. Never underestimate your reader. Accurate references such as historical data, legal and medical references are critical examples of professional writers.

Learn the skills for fast, accurate and reliable Internet search techniques that boost your book out of the slush pile. (PowerPoint presentation)

Geri Spieler

Author, Speaker, Workshop Leader