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Toby Rajput NLU – RLS 514 Teaching Research to Children & Adolescents. Image from: http://sids-network.org/images/animated_search.gif. Things I know about searching…. Illinois Math & Science Academy’s 21 st Century Information Fluency at 21cif.imsa.edu is an excellent teaching tool, with:
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Toby RajputNLU – RLS 514 Teaching Research to Children & Adolescents Image from: http://sids-network.org/images/animated_search.gif
Things I know about searching… • Illinois Math & Science Academy’s 21st Century Information Fluency at 21cif.imsa.edu is an excellent teaching tool, with: • Wizards: tools for to assist with Searching, Evaluating websites and Citing sources • Tutorials: including MicroModules and monthly Internet Search Challenges. Let’s try Kermit… • Web 2.0 tools: Keyword blog, Search Challenge blog, Wizard wiki, Information Fluency ning
and useful resources: • Including an excellent directory of annotated links • and the Top Ten Searching Tips • There are also Top Ten Tips for Evaluation Top Ten Tips for Ethical Use
Things I didn’t know… • I did know about the Invisible Web; I didn’t know about the Opaque Web or Nearly Visible Web. (I can guess about the Vanishing Web). • Think of the nearly visible or opaque web as web pages that are just one click beyond the reach of a search engine. The website itself has been visited and some of its pages are copied into the search engine Index. However, due to storage limitations, not all pages on a site are visited by every search engine. The opaque or nearly visible web is information on a public website that has not been indexed by the robotic 'crawlers' or 'spiders' sent out by the search engine. Indeed the information is 'indexible' but it hasn‘t yet been indexed. • I know about operators (+, - and “ ”, including Boolean Operators). I didn’t know about advanced operators, i.e. [intitle:] or [inurl:].
More Things I Didn’t Know… • From: Heine, Carl. ‘Do you (only) Google?’ 21st Century Information Fluency. Accessed online 9/27/10 at 21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/features/v1n1/leadarticle_v1_n1.html • Search engines do not search the live Internet. • Different databases like Google and Yahoo do not contain the same information. • Sometimes information is collected randomly; In other cases it is collected by experts. • No database indexes more than a fraction of the entire Internet. • Only Metasearch engines (i.e. Dogpile.com) send queries to several search engines simultaneously • “Google’s simplicity and impressive search prowess tricks students into thinking they are good all-around searchers” – Pamela Martin, Utah State librarian
Besides IMSA, try • The Animated Internet for the basics on how search engines work • ILforTrails9 wikispaces for a PowerPoint by Shannon Mersand on Boolean Operators • A research report by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee titled Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future”, available online at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf
Google Watkins, K. & Elder, K. (1/1/2006). ‘The Google Game’. School Library Journal . Accessed online 09/27/10. Carr, Nicholas. (July/Aug 2008). ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?’ The Atlantic.com. Accessed online 09/27/10. Your experience? Advantages? Disadvantages?
Wikipedia Schiff, Stacy. (7/31/06). ‘Can Wikipedia Conquer Expertise?’ The New Yorker. Accessed online 9/18/08. ‘Wikipedia’.Wikipedia. Accessed online 10/03/10from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GACR Your experience? Advantages? Disadvantages?
Additional Resources • Adam, A. & Mowers, H. (4/1/08). ‘Start Your Search Engines: Taming Google (and Other Tips). School Library Journal. Accessed online 6/25/08. • ‘Animated Internet’. Learn the Net.com. Accessed online 9/26/08 at http://www.learnthenet.com/english/animate/animate.htm. • Carvin, Andy. (6/30/06). ‘The Wild World of Wikipedia: A Study in Contrasts’. PBS Teachers/learning.now. Accessed online 9/18/08. • Carvin, Andy. (7/3/06). ‘Wikipedia in the Classroom: Consensus Among Educators?’ PBS Teachers/learning.now. Accessed online 9/18/08. • TRAILS-Tool for Real Time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills wiki. Accessed online 9/26/08 at http://ilfortrails9.wikispaces.com/Develop%2C+use+and+refine+search+strategies. • Watkins, K. & Elder, K. (5/1/08). ‘Return of the Google Game’. School Library Journal. Accessed online 5/6/08.