This workshop focuses on cool tools for navigating and searching content. Come and explore the application of free web tools such as Clipmarks, del.cio.us, Flickr, YouTube, Furl, Google Maps, and Zotero in the research process. Using examples of research projects commonly assigned in California schools, speakers show how students can use social bookmarking sites, browser plug-ins, and free web services to find resources, take notes, and organize content, ideas, quotations, and references while surfing and searching online. Attendees try out tools while enacting the roles of both students with research agendas and the information professionals who may assist them. By applying pedagogy to new technologies, teachers and librarians can facilitate the active learning of research skills with the help of these tools. Research scenarios/examples from the curriculum include using del.icio.us and Clipmarks to build a set of resources with and for students using YouTube, del.icio.us, and Furl to help students document their science projects, building a knowledgebase to present a single body of information, using Flickr and Google Maps to build a mashup and add texture and knowledge to a literature assignment, and more.