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Lerner Sports. NEWSCOMPARE. Resources - Icons - support.gale. Teacher/Librarian Resources - California K12 - LibGuides at ProQuest. Dataset Search. Internet Country Codes - two letter nation abbreviations. Electronic Mail Internet Country Codes AD Andorra AE United Arab Emirates AF Afghanistan AG Antigua and Barbuda AI Anguilla AL Albania AM Armenia AN Netherland Antilles AO Angola AQ Antarctica AR Argentina AS American Samoa AT Austria AU Australia AW Aruba AZ Azerbaidjan back to top BA Bosnia-Herzegovina BB Barbados BD Banglades BE Belgium BF Burkina Faso BG Bulgaria BH Bahrain BI Burundi BJ Benin BM Bermuda BN Brunei Darussalam BO Bolivia BR Brazil BS Bahamas BT Buthan BV Bouvet Island BW Botswana BY Belarus BZ Belize CA Canada CC Cocos (Keeling) Isl.

Internet Country Codes - two letter nation abbreviations

CF Central African Rep. DE Germany DJ Djibouti DK Denmark DM Dominica DO Dominican Republic DZ Algeria EC Ecuador EE Estonia EG Egypt EH Western Sahara ES Spain ET Ethiopia FI Finland FJ Fiji FK Falkland Isl. GA Gabon GB Great Britain (UK) GD Grenada GE Georgia GH Ghana GI Gibraltar GL Greenland GP Guadeloupe (Fr.) HK Hong Kong HM Heard & McDonald Isl. ID Indonesia IE Ireland IL Israel IN India IO British Indian O. OM Oman QA Qatar. Refine web searches - Google Search Help.

You can use symbols or words in your search to make your search results more precise. Google Search usually ignores punctuation that isn’t part of a search operator. Don’t put spaces between the symbol or word and your search term. A search for site:nytimes.com will work, but site: nytimes.com won’t. Refine image searches Overall Advanced Search Go to Advanced Image Search. Search for an exact image size Right after the word you're looking for, add the text imagesize:widthxheight. News Archive Search. Mastering Google Search Operators in 67 Easy Steps. See Also:• Google Search Operators - Best Practices• 25 Killer Combos for Google's Site: Operator Any SEO worth their sustainably harvested pink Himalayan salt knows that Google offers a variety of advanced search operators – special commands that take you above and beyond regular text searches.

Learning search operators is a bit like learning chess, though. It's easy to memorize how each piece moves, but that's about 1% of your path toward mastery. I know that the pointy-hat guy in chess moves diagonally, but that doesn't mean I'm about to take on Kasparov or Deep Blue. Instead of just listing all of the operators and telling you what they do, I'd like to try something different.

You can skip around, but I'd suggest following the story from the beginning. I. Crafting original content in 2017 requires wading into the sea of content that's already been created, and Google remains the most complete map of that sea. 1. Tesla 2. Nikola tesla 3. Tesla ac/dc 4. Tesla "ac/dc" 5. Tesla OR edison 6. 5 Must-Have Google Search Tips for Students. For those of us who remember a time before the internet, using Google for research might feel strange -- like being thrust from the cozy confines of a favorite library straight into the Wild West of the web.

5 Must-Have Google Search Tips for Students

But in today’s world, it’s impossible to ignore Google Search as a legitimate tool for research. Most of us begin any simple quest for knowledge with a Google search. So it makes sense that more serious searches might start there, too. The Truth Is Out There: Fact-Checking Resources for Students. Do you ever feel like you have slipped into an episode of "The Twilight Zone" or "The X-Files" when you see some of the “facts” your students share?

The Truth Is Out There: Fact-Checking Resources for Students

Do you wonder where they found these “facts,” or how to convince students that they might not be using the most reliable of resources? Frightened by what your students consider to be "facts"? Show them how to find the truth with fact-checking websites and reliable news resources. Think back to the fall 2017: How many times did you open your Facebook or Twitter feed and see that friends and acquaintances had posted articles with headlines like “Flight Crew Takes a Knee, Leaving New Orleans Saints Stranded” or “Plastic Surgeon Develops High Heel Foot Surgery,” purporting that one could have their feet surgically altered to look like high heels? How many of you rolled your eyes and scrolled patiently past the post? Librarians and fact-checker websites to the rescue! The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet. April 10, 2018by Tom Chorneau (Calif.)

The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet

As social media giants like Facebook and YouTube struggle over content and privacy issues, K-12 students throughout California will soon be getting access to a wealth of high-value online resources in a program spearheaded by State Librarian Greg Lucas. Using a $3 million allocation from the state budget, the library will make available the Encyclopedia Britannica, ProQuest and TeachingBooks.net at no cost to students statewide who will be able to use these resources in the classroom, at home or anywhere they can log-in. “I was surprised to learn that California is the last state in the nation to be providing these sorts of online data-bases to schools,” Lucas said in an interview.

“The experience of the 49 other states that have done this was that once we got a statewide agreement with these online content providers, it becomes a lot more cost-effective.” Here’s a snapshot of the resources being provided: Encyclopedia Britannica TeachingBooks.net. Ancestry Login. Ancestry Login.