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I-SearchMaxson 1213

• Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S.
• Instructional Services Librarian
• SWOSU
• 774 7113

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Metacognition, n.

• Awareness and understanding of one's own thought
  processes, esp. regarded as having a role in
  directing those processes.
• - Oxford English Dictionary

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I-Search Paper

• What I Knew
• Why I am Writing This Paper
• The Search
• What I Learned

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I-Search

• Selecting a topic - exploring interests,
  discussing ideas, browsing resources
• Finding information - generating questions,
  exploring resources
• Using information - taking notes, analyzing
  materials, recording the process
• Developing a final product - developing
  communications, sharing experiences

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I-Search Examples

• Social
• Medical
• Legal
• Employment
• Personal Concern

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I-Search Medical
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I-Search Medical cleidocranial dysplasia

• Medical Databases
• Orthopedic Dissertations
• Surgical Textbooks

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I-Search Paper

• What I Knew
• Why Im Writing This Paper
• The Search
• What I Learned

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I-Search Example Medical

• Selecting a topic Medical Condition
  (cleidocranial dysplasia)
• Finding information concept mapping, websites
  web tools, medical databases (general), medical
  professionals, networking tools, blogs
• Using information - taking notes, analyzing
  materials, interview people in the field
• What I learned Treatment/Options

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Selecting a topic - browsing resources

• Keywords
• Concept Maps
• Concept mapping is a brainstorming strategy to
  help you generate ideas for your assignment,
  visually organize information, and make
  connections between different concepts.

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Concept Maps Critical Questions

• What is the central word, concept, research
  question or problem around which to build the
  map?
• What are the concepts, items, descriptive words
  or telling questions that you can associate with
  the concept, topic, research question or problem?

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Concept Maps Suggestions

• Use a free association approach by brainstorming
  nodes and then develop links and relationships.
  Use different colors and shapes for nodes links
  to identify different types of information.
• Gather information to a question in the question
  node.

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Mind mapping software (web-based)

• Bubbl.us - Web-based mind mapping / concept
  mapping
• Mappio - Web-based mind mapping from structured
  text
• Mindomo - Web-based mind mapping

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I-Search Paper

• What I Knew
• Why Im Writing This Paper
• The Search
• What I Learned

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Selecting a topic - browsing resources

• World Wide Web ( NoodleTools)
• Library Databases
• Library Catalog (Books)
• Reference Collection
• WorldCat

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Evaluating Websites

• Authority
• Accuracy
• Objectivity
• Currency

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Finding information- generating questions,
exploring resources

• Primary Secondary Sources
• Personal Interviews
• Professional Associations

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Finding information- Primary Secondary Sources

• Primary sources are the "materials on a topic
  upon which subsequent interpretations or studies
  are based, anything from firsthand documents such
  as poems, diaries, court records, and interviews
  to research results generated by experiments,
  surveys, ethnographies, and so on."
• Primary sources are records of events as they are
  first described, without any interpretation or
  commentary. They are also sets of data, such as
  census statistics, which have been tabulated, but
  not interpreted.

• Secondary sources, on the other hand, offer an
  analysis or a restatement of primary sources.
  They often attempt to describe or explain primary
  sources. Some secondary sources not only analyze
  primary sources, but use them to argue a
  contention or to persuade the reader to hold a
  certain opinion.

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Primary Secondary

• Original artwork
• POW diary
• Poem
• Treaty

• Article critiquing the piece of art
• Book about POW Camp
• Treatise on a particular genre of poetry
• Essay on Native American land rights

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Primary Secondary Sources

• Primary Sources
• Person
• Interview
• E-Mail contact
• Event
• Discussion
• Debate
• Community Meeting
• Survey
• Artifact
• Observation of object (animate and inanimate)

• Secondary Sources
• Reference Material
• Book
• CD Rom
• Encyclopedia
• Magazine
• Newspaper
• Video Tape
• Audio Tape
• TV

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Finding information Professional Associations

• Encyclopedia of Associations
• R 060 En195
• A comprehensive list of national organizations
  described briefly, with names, addresses, and
  telephone numbers. Associations keep track of
  industry data for their members and may have
  valuable information on an industry that would
  not be found in standard business sources.
  Indexes include name of organization, key word,
  and geographic area.

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Finding information Personal Interviews

• Get information by talking with people who have
  knowledge you want.
• Sometimes you simply want to know what their
  experience has been.
• Sometimes you want their expert opinion,
  sometimes their knowledge of the facts.
• Which of these kinds of information are you
  after?

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Finding information Personal Interviews

• When you make an appointment, you need to
  introduce yourself and tell what capacity you are
  calling in, explain the purpose of your call,
  explain why you would like to talk with the
  person, and request permission to set a time and
  place.
• Conducting Interviews
• Field Research Conducting an Interview

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Tools

• Research Journal.Keep One
• Concept Maps
• Noodle Tools
• Interviews
• RSS
• Social Networks
• Blogs Technorati

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RSS Feeds

• RSS In Plain English
• Gather information from across the Web and bring
  it to you
• Library databases are now incorporating RSS feeds
  into their products, check here for more
  information.

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• Blogs

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Blogs

• A place to disseminate information on a
  particular subject and allows direct feedback
  from the readers of this content.
• Blogging Personal participation in public
  knowledge-building on the web
• Did you know the library has a blog?
• Technorati Tracking the Live Web

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Blogs - Services

• Blogger
• WordPress
• Movable Type
• TypePad

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I-Search

• Using information - taking notes, analyzing
  materials, recording the process
• Developing a final product - developing
  communications, sharing experiences

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I-Search Paper

• What I Knew
• Why I am Writing This Paper
• The Search
• What I Learned

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Serendipity

• The faculty of making happy and unexpected
  discoveries by accident. Also, the fact or an
  instance of such a discovery.
• - Oxford English Dictionary

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Thank You

• Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S.
• Instructional Services Librarian
• 580 774 7113
• frederic.murray_at_swosu.edu