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Title: Finding Resources on the Internet for Learning, Teaching and Research


1
Finding Resources on the Internet for
Learning, Teaching and Research
  • Emma Place
  • Institute for Learning and Research Technology
  • University of Bristol

2
Aim of today
  • To learn how to
  • find information
  • on the Internet
  • that can support
  • academic work

3
Objectives
  • Tour Key Internet sites for academics
  • Discover how to search the Internet for academic
    information
  • Review pros and cons of Internet information
  • Let you explore sites and build a list if useful
    links to take away

4
Plan
  • Introductions (5 mins)
  • A Guided tour of the Internet for academics
    (20 mins)
  • Hands-on Exploring key generic sites
    (25 mins)
  • The Internet for your subject
    (20 mins)
  • Hands-on Exploring key subject sites
    (25 mins)
  • TEA BREAK (20 mins)
  • Searching the Internet for academic info
    (20 mins
  • Hands-on Internet search tools
    (25 mins)
  • Pros and Cons
    (10 mins)
  • Questions and Evaluation
    (10 mins)

5
What can the Internet offer academics?
  • A guided tour

6
Academics use the Internet for
  • 1.       Keeping up with HE news
  • 2.       Research
  • 3.       Conducting a literature search
  • 4.       Making professional contacts
  • 5.       Professional development
  • 6.       Teaching and learning
  • 7.       Maintaining current awareness
  • 8.       Finding data
  • 9. Buying Books

7
Key sites for UK Higher Education
  • HERO
  • - official gateway to UK universities and
    colleges
  • JISC
  • - funded by HEFCE to help academics use ICT

8
Internet for research
  • Research Councils UK
  • - all have Web sites with info about research
    funding, projects and outputs.

9
Literature searching online
  • Bibliographic Databases Online
  • Library Catalogues (OPACS)
  • Electronic Journals
  • Online publications
  • search any time, any place
  • May need an ATHENS password

10
Maintaining current awareness
  • Online newspapers and magazines
  • Alerting services
  • Current contents

11
Making professional contacts
  • JISCmail mailing lists
  • People directories
  • Organisational home pages

12
Professional development
  • Web sites of Professional societies
  • Training information
  • Careers advice
  • Job hunting

13
Buying books
  • Online book stores eg
  • Amazon
  • (lots more shopping possible too!)

14
Learning and teaching online
  • eLearning
  • Course plans and lecture notes
  • Online text books and core texts
  • Online tutorials

15
Finding data, images, video and film
  • Resources to use for research, or to embed in
    taught courses

16
HANDS-ON SESSION
  • Browse Section 1 of the workbook
  • Try the TASKS outlined there
  • Visit any sites that interest you
  • Keep a record of URLs on the back page

17
Finding Academic Web resources for your subject
18
  • The RDN Virtual Training Suite
  • - find the tutorial for your subject
  • The JISC Resource Guides
  • - find the guide for your subject

19
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HANDS-ON SESSION
  • Browse Section 2 of the workbook
  • Try the TASKS outlined there

21
Searching the Internet for academic information
22
Resource Discovery Network (RDN)
  • the UKs academic gateway to Internet resources
  • ALTIS - Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and
    Tourism   BIOME - Health and Life Sciences  
    EEVL - Engineering, Mathematics and Computing  
    GEsource - Geography and Environment   Humbul -
    Humanities   PSIgate - Physical Sciences  
    SOSIG - Social Sciences, Business and Law

23
Google
  • The best Internet search engine
  • Check out
  • Advanced Search options
  • Image search

24
Yahoo
  • A public Internet gateway
  • - note how the quality and coverage differs from
    the RDN

25
HANDS-ON SESSION
  • Workbook sections 23
  • For your subject
  • Find the relevant RDN hub
  • Find the section of Yahoo
  • Do a Google search
  • How do they compare?

26
Finally some pros and cons of using the
Internet for learning, teaching and research
27
Poor quality information
  • The Internet reflects the World it contains the
    good, the bad and the ugly
  • Anyone can publish anything
  • Academic journals sit next to comics
  • Presidential speeches next to idle gossip
  • - its left up to the user to evaluate

28
Plagarism
  • The copy and paste culture
  • Protect your intellectual property!
  • Dont let the Internet degrade academic work!

29
Want to help your students with Internet
resources?
point them to key Web sites for the subject
Warn of the pitfalls of the Internet
Help them to search the Internet
30
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