Yahoo Directory. 14. Note-taking Tip. 15. Inspiration

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Research The 4th R

• Karolyne Lucero, Ed.D.
• Saint Edwards School
• Vero Beach, FL 32963
• klucero_at_steds.org

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"A weekday edition of the New York Times has more
information than one person in the 17th century
was exposed to in an entire lifetime." Ted
Turner, Spring Comdex 1997
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Developing the stance
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The Research StanceEncourage Information Literacy

• Identify key concepts and key words
• Choose the search tool
• Keep searching gt new top 10s
• Evaluate the resources

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Proactive Strategies

• 1. Articulate expectations
• 2. Clarify teacher-imposed limitations
• 3. Simplify the citation process
• 4. Provide JIT tools
• 5. Provide on-going search training
• 6. Emphasize evaluation of web sites
• 7. Provide ongoing and independent assessment of
  research process

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Students should be able to clearly articulate
requirements expectations
Cite 5 Internet sources and 3 books

• what are they looking for
• what key words might work
• where they should look
• how they will evaluate the results

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2. Teachers should clearly define references to
be used with caution
myname Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire .org ??
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Citation Machine
3. Simplify the citation process

• http//www.oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/howto/cited/

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Turnitin.com

• 9th graders one semester grace period
• Deters student plagiarism before it starts

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4. Provide JIT access to portals, databases and
search engines
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Intranet Research Launching Pad
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Questia

• Over 50,000 books 400,000 journal, magazine,
  and newspaper articles
• Search entire books and articles in their
  entirety 
• Credible content not found anywhere else on the
  Internet

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Utilize the Links bar Create a search engine
folder

• Dir.Google
• CompletePlanet
• Google Advanced
• Whois
• Teoma
• Vivisimo
• Yahoo Directory

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Note-taking Tip
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Inspiration

• Centralized filing
• Search brainstorming
• Notes
• Writing
• URLs

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5. Provide ongoing search training
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The Basics
Stop Words

• Quotes
• Not John Kennedy
• Plus and minus
• Tilde
• paintings
• Advanced Pages versus Boolean

in is it la of on or thatthe thisto
was what whenwhere
who will withundthewww

• I
• a
• about
• An
• Are
• as
• at
• Be
• By
• Com
• De
• En
• For
• From
• how

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Advanced Skills

• When the page cant be found
• When you want to limit the timeframe
• Search within a single site
• When there are too many returns
• search in title bar
• search in the URL
• Who links to the site?

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Power Searching

• Cached
• (for bad links)
• inURLcancer
• inTitleInternet Explorer
• Linkwww.steds.org(who links to this site)

• meteor filetypepdf
• telescopes siteNasa.gov
• or
• skates siteedu
• Relatedlynda.com
• (similar sites)

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Google Extras

• Definexxx
• Spelling and synonyms
• Calculator
• www.googleguide.com/calculator.html
• Phonebook
• Dirgoogle.com

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6. Emphasize web site evaluation

• Who owns the site
• Why was it created
• When was it most recently updated
• Who links to it?

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• The internet is a place where you can find
  proof of essentially any belief system that you
  can imagine.

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http//pubweb.northwestern.edu/abutz/di/intro.htm
l A short introduction to the study of Holocaust
revisionism,by Arthur R. Butz.I see three
principal reasons for the widespread but
erroneous belief in the legend of millions of
Jews killed by the Germans during World War II
US and British troops found horrible piles of
corpses in the west German camps they captured in
1945 ..., there are no longer large communities
of Jews in Poland, and historians generally
support the legend. During both world wars
Germany was forced to fight typhus, carried by
lice ... That is why all accounts of entry into
the German concentration camps speak of shaving
of hair and showering and other delousing
procedures, such as treatment of quarters with
the pesticide Zyklon. That was also the main
reason for a high death rate in the camps, and
the crematoria ...Article published in the
Daily Northwestern of May 13, 1991, corrected May
14.
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Anatomy of a URL
http//www.steds.org/campus/calendar/default.asp

• http// (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)
• www.steds.org (Domain Name)
• /campus/calendar/ (folders on the steds.org
  server)
• Default.asp (actual file name of this page)

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What can the URL tell me?

• http//pubweb.northwestern.edu/abutz/di/intro.htm
  l
• This is a personal page how can you tell?
• Pubweb
• Also look for signs, users, members, or
  people.
• Personal Web pages created by using Tripod,
  Geocities, or Angel Fire, or other ISPs (ex
  aol.com)
• A tilde symbol indicates a personal web (of
  abutz)
• What else can we tell?
• Northwestern Univ. owns the domain name nwu.edu
• .edu indicates it is a college

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Who links to the site?
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Who Owns the Domain?
http//www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois
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Trim the URLto learn more about a site
http//pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/abutz/di/intro.html h
ttp//pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/abutz/di/ http//pubwe
b.acns.nwu.edu/abutz/ http//pubweb.acns.nwu.edu
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7. Provide ongoing and independent assessment of
research process

• Students submit references prior to paper
• Teach how to PrintScreen
• Collect and grade research attempts in the same
  manner as preliminary notes
• Students submit papers to Turnitin.com
• Teachers spot check references

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Review search engines every 6 mos.

• Search Engine Watch
• http//searchenginewatch.com/facts/

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Recreational Searching

• Search the Book generic.A9.com
• Identify hoaxes
• Shop Froogle.com
• Reverse phone lookups, people searching
• Control favorites Backflip / PowerMarks

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Sources

• Alan November. Grammar of the Internet.
  http//www.anovember.com/infolit/index.html
• Paula Eisenberg. Tech Talk Anatomy of a Web
  Address. http//www.larchmontgazette.com/2002/feat
  ures/techtalk/20020915abouturl.html
• Evaluating Web Pages UC Berkeley
  http//www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Int
  ernet/Evaluate.html
• Bernie Dodge. Four Nets for Better Searching.
  http//webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm
• Search Engine Watch http//searchenginewatch.com/f
  acts/
• Bob Rankin Guide to Internet Searching