Conducting Research

Research

Key Word Search

1. Clusty
2. Wikipedia
3. Google
4. Marvel

Lesson Plans

Plagiarism

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2. Tutorials
3. News
4. To Read/Ponder
5. PowerPoint
6. Poem

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April 6 2010

   

It's Not Information Overload; It's Filter Failure by Clay Shirky

Models to teach the Information Process include:

• Big 6
• Flip It!
• Discover
• I-Search

        Each model begins by defining or focusing on a specific problem or subject. To define the problem or specify the question to be answered, students need general information about the topic.  To discover general information, students need to identify search terms or key words.  Key words are necessary for accessing relevant information.

  Key Word Search

Using different strategies and different search engines for the best results :

Noodle Tools; Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs

Clusty a Metasearch engine developed by Vivisimo.  An excellent resource to teach how to develop key words

• try using wind mill to teach this concept
• look at the box for listing clusters and use the remix feature
  

Infotopia (new)

ipl2 for Information you can Trust

Wikipedia - How Today's College Students use Wikipedia

• Search for wind mill
• Look at the tabs, especially the History tab
• Edits and dates of edits may lead to questionable credibility
• Search for Ruby Terrill Lomax and note the reference attached to this article

Google - Features  Beyond Google; a DocStoc for Professionals teaching students   For Visual Learners: Google's Wonder Wheel

MARVEL one of the best resources we have in ME to begin a research project! Also, now teachers have a wonderful database of resources by clicking on the T in the alphabet listing and then clicking on the Teacher Resource Center.

Pathfinders

Food for Thought....Is the Internet Making us Stupid?  "The speed of young people's internet searching indicates that little time is spent in evaluating information, either for relevance, accuracy or authority. Researchers have similarly found young people give a consistent lack of attention to the issue of authority. In one study, many teenagers thought if a site was indexed by Yahoo it had to be authoritative."

Stuff to use to make research more fun:

• Wordle
• Glogster examples from class

Lesson Plans for Research Strategy

Wading Through the Web - a Read Write Think resource from Thinkfinity - excellent lessons!

How to Search the Internet - Freshmen going off to college will always find tutorials and lessons on the college website that will direct and explain how to conduct searches and find the best information available. This page is from S. Oregon University

Purdue Online Writing Lab - Provides an excellent resource to keep on your webpage for quick reference when doing anything with research and the writing process.

 

Plagiarism Main Sites:

Plagiarism - This Web site contains a wealth of information about plagiarism, including articles, guides, case studies, detection tools, term paper sites, and much more.

Ethical Research - Part of the NoodleTools site under Teacher Resources. Notemaking & Notetaking Links; NoodleTools; Teaching Intelligently

Ethics 101 - an overall view of sites listed for plagiarism, copyright, web evaluation by Patti Tjomsland

Plagiarsm from Net Know How