Rev Up Your Research

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Rev Up Your Research!

• Go From 0 to 60 in a Week Using the Big6 with any
  Teacher, any Curriculum, any Final Product, and
  Learn to Wiki Along the Way!
• Presented by Alicia Duell, Library Media
  Specialist and Resident Research Geek
• Riverside Brookfield High School
• Riverside, IL
• duella_at_rbhs208.org

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Why I the Big6

• Start-to-finish
• Applicable to everyone, everywhere
• Accommodates any and all skills you might want to
  teach
• Why I started my research quest

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OK, I Buy It. Now What?

• Couldnt find practical examples
• Went to workshop, but still?
• Armed with The Big6 in Secondary Schools, by
  Michael B. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz
• On the lookout for a guinea pig (with a wedding?)

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What We Do Now

• 2 Research Phases for all Freshman English
• PHASE 1
• Introduce Big6
• Source Types
• Plagiarism
• Highlighting and Annotating
• Note-taking using Graphic Organizers
• Outlining
• PHASE 2
• Database vs. Free Internet
• Constructing Searches
• Website Evaluation using RADCAB
• Works Cited and Citation Machine

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Phase 1 at a Glance

• 2 days in class teaching
• 2-3 days in class guided note-taking, outlining
• --- a few days goes by, up to teacher
  discretion---
• 10 min. at end of project for Evaluation (Step 6)
• Ideally, all students do the same topic, or some
  variation of one topic
• We provide ALL the articles

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Phase 1 Day 1in class

• Introduce Big6 Model for Information Literacy
  (O,H 1)
• My Real Life Example (H 2)
• Rubric (O,H 3)
• Big6 Step 1 Task Definition (O,H 4)
• Big6 Step 2 Information Seeking Strategies
• Wikipedia discussion
• Big6 Step 3 Location and Access
• O overhead
• H handout

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Phase 1 Day 2in class

• Big6 Step 4 Use of Information
• Plagiarism (5WH)
• Graphic Organizers for note-taking (O,H 5)
• Highlighting, annotating, note-taking (H.A.N.)
  using sample article (O,H) ideally, sample
  article should count as one of required articles
• Homework complete H.A.N. article

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Phase 1 Days 3-5in class

• Check homework, give feedback (no practicing
  mistakes!)
• Work in class as much as possible
• Guided H.A.N.
• 1-2 H.A.N. articles for homework each night until
  all are done
• Big6 Step 5 Synthesis
• Outline- Inspiration or traditional

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Phase 1 Final Day

• Return to class for 15 minutes when projects due
• Big6 Step 6 Evaluation
• Complete self-evaluation and rubric(O,H 6)
• Hand in final product, self-evaluation, outline,
  H.A.N. articles and graphic organizers
• Candy sweet ending

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Grading a reminder of why its nice to be a
librarian

• Attach new rubric to each student packet
• Ideally, teacher grades Steps 1 and 5 (content,
  organization, fulfills project requirements)
• For PowerPoint presentations Steps 1 and 5
  graded during presentation
• Enter grades into Excel spreadsheet to calculate
  weighting
• Keep students self-evaluation for use during
  Phase 2!
• Try to avoid double-grading

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Phase 2 at a Glance

• 2 days in class teaching
• 2-3 days in computer labs/library
• --- a few days goes by, up to teacher
  discretion---
• 10 min. at end of project for Evaluation (Step 6)
• Topics can be of greater variety during Phase 2

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Phase 2 Day 1in class

• Research Review Quiz (keep for statistics) (H 7)
• Big6 Steps Review Quiz/What to improve from Phase
  1? (return self evaluations) (O,H 8)
• Rubric (O,H 9)
• Big6 Step 1 Task Definition (individual or
  group) (O,H 10)
• Database vs. Website Activity (big box, little
  box)
• Database vs. Website Chart (O,H 11)

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Phase 2 Day 2in class

• Demonstrate online databases
• Demonstrate graphic organizer for this project
  (subtopics may need to be determined) (O,H)
• Model H.A.N., students complete article for
  homework (O,H)
• Students complete Big6 Step 1 Task Definition
  worksheet with guidance from lib/teacher (O,H
  12)
• Homework H.A.N. article

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Phase 2 Day 3in lab

• Discuss and demonstrate Works Cited (H 13)
• Demonstrate database articles citations
• Students create Works Cited document
• Students find database articles, create
  citations, print
• Check work at end of period have goal!
• Homework H.A.N. database article(s)

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Phase 2 Day 4in lab

• Demonstrate constructing web searches
• RADCAB- use good and bad websites found during
  searches (H 14)
• Demonstrate Citation Machine- create citations
  for websites
• Students find websites, print
• Students create/add website citations to Works
  Cited
• Check work at end of period have goal!
• Homework H.A.N. article(s)

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Phase 2 Day 5-End

• Teacher discretion
• In-class time for guided H.A.N.
• In-class time for outline instruction
• In-class time for final product creation
• Final Day Big6 Step 6 Evaluation (H)
• Grade!

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The Secrets to Our Success

• Plenty of in-class guidance (research, H.A.N.,
  outline)
• Regular homework check-ins (with feedback)
• Goals at end of each lab day/in-class work day
• In lab, specific types of searches each day
• Add to Works Cited as you go
• Teachers had to articulate the essential elements
  of their curriculum, and many found that research
  skills were lacking or not included
• Force printing, highlighting and annotating
  articles, and handwritten notes (most important,
  yet most often resisted requirements!)

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Articulation

• Super3 Elementary, Middle Schools
• 9th grade English 2 Research Projects
• 10th grade Speech (semester) 1 Research Project
• 11th grade U.S. History 2 Research Projects (1
  small, 1 big)
• ROADBLOCKS
• Unenthusiastic, threatened?, not their job to
  teach research
• Willing, but theyll do it- we help in labs
• AP does no research (no time?!)

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Wiki Fun, collaborative extra

• Big6 Steps 3 and 4 (Location Access, Use of
  Information)
• Wikispaces, Wetpaint, pbwiki
• Part of rubric- required number of posts
• Posts must be annotated

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Go, Tell it on the Mountain!

• Start small
• Ask collaborating teacher to tell others
• Institute Day session
• Tell administration, Show final products, Give
  them data!
• Make yourself invaluable as the Research Expert
• Do the grading