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Secondary Education: Researching the Holocaust Through iconn

Secondary Education: Researching the Holocaust Through iconn. Presented by Nick Wharton University of Hartford Libraries. Research: How students get into trouble and how they can avoid it. Google Wikipedia Worldwide Web untrustworthy site Worldwide Web trusted site

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Secondary Education: Researching the Holocaust Through iconn

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  1. Secondary Education:Researching the HolocaustThrough iconn Presented by Nick Wharton University of Hartford Libraries

  2. Research:How students get into troubleand how they can avoid it • Google • Wikipedia • Worldwide Web untrustworthy site • Worldwide Web trusted site • Searching for reliable information: e.g. iconn.org

  3. Google • Google is a search tool that harnesses web information by searching a complex algorithm to show you its “best” returns for your particular search. • Google offers quick access to unvettedinformation. • Google is not smart enough to bring back the best information only the most likely pages for the words searched. • Usually offers access to websites that may or may not be helpful or useful. • Useful articles are not normally returned by Google searches.

  4. Wikipedia • Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. • Calls itself, the free Encyclopedia that anyone can edit. • Editorial irregularities exist due to the “free” editing by anyone. • Unreliable information, although sources for each article may be useful for an overview or quick information about a topic.

  5. Worldwide Web Untrustworthy Site

  6. Google search: Holocaust Hoax Top result: • Is the Holocaust a Hoax? www.biblebelievers.org.au/holohoax.htm Who is the author? None named Who is the sponsor? Biblebelivers.org What is the focus of their website? Faith in Jesus Christ as our savior

  7. Problems with site • No known author, actually, no author, although other author’s works are represented looking like scholarship. • Presentation of scholarship based on hearsay and unsubstantiated facts. • To get the real substantiated answers, one must send a letter to INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW, 1822 1/2 Newport Blvd., Suite 191, Costa Mesa CA 92627. • No link to information about the owner of the website.

  8. Unreliable websitewww.biblebelievers.org.au • Site has no author control. • The ownership of the site is difficult to locate, if not impossible. • The site offers no “About” page or any information about the organization that hosts the website. • This is an unreliable sponsoring website, and makes the information from the hosted site suspicious.

  9. Worldwide Web Trustworthy Site

  10. Reliable Website ExampleHolocaust • Holocaust History & Facts | USHMM.org • Who is the governing organization? • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum • Is there a link to information about the website sponsor of the information? Yes (see next slide) • Is the organization reliable? • In this case it is the website of a highly respected non-profit museum. • Information is from a published Encyclopedia about the Holocaust.

  11. Holocaust History & Facts | USHMM.org

  12. Searching for Reliable Information: e.g. iconn.org

  13. iconnSearching(i.e. more trusted searching) • Freely available to all Connecticut Residents. • Offers indexed information in article, chapter or book format on your topic. • Sources are generally more reliable than random web searching. • Easy to use: basic searching resembles that of Google or other search engines.

  14. Number of Results: kristallnachticonn search Results by Resource: by Group Combined Searching Nursing & Psychology0 Magazines and Journals Academic OneFile187 PowerSearch137 NewspapersGale Newspaper Collection690 Hartford Courant (ProQuest)64 London Times (Gale)0 Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)0 Business and LawABI/Inform Global374 Find Books, DVDs and More (reQuest)Statewide Library Catalog (reQuest)80

  15. Results from basic iconn search • Over 1,500 results were located. • Over 500 Academic articles located. • Over 700 Newspaper articles. • 80 books, DVD’s or other materials located. • Some Full Text

  16. iconn Article Record from Academic onefile

  17. Choose Advanced Search Tab • Add other words to your search. • Add qualifiers: • Limit by Year • Limit by Material Type (e.g. books, maps, serials) • Limit by Language • Choose other Databases available from iconn. • Try World History in Context

  18. List of all databases available through iconnwith History and Biography checked.

  19. Results from the History and Biography Databses • History and BiographyHartford Courant - Historical0 U.S. History in Context21 World History in Context17 Connecticut History Online0 Biography In Context15

  20. Why use iconn as a research tool? • Free to Connecticut Residents and all Connecticut students • Easy to search • Reliable information from several resources • Many articles Full Text • Assists in curricular compliance as a reliable discovery tool • Myriad of indexes on many subjects

  21. Conclusions • Searching for information can be a difficult task for today’s student • Quick searches on the web result in information overload or unreliable information. • A directed search through reliable sources, such as iconn, offers reliable sources in various formats that are teacher approved.

  22. Resources • Google - google.com • Wikipedia - wikipedia.org • iconn - iconn.org • The Connecticut Consortium for Holocaust and Genocide Education http://ctchged.wordpress.com/ • University of Hartford Research Guides:Teaching about the Holocaust and Genocide http://library.hartford.edu/guides/editor/editguide.asp?subject=Teaching%20about%20the%20Holocaust%20and%20Genocide

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