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Research: The 4 th R. Karolyne Lucero, Ed.D. Saint Edward’s School Vero Beach, FL 32963 klucero@steds.org. "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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Research: The 4th R Karolyne Lucero, Ed.D. Saint Edward’s School Vero Beach, FL 32963 klucero@steds.org
"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
The Research StanceEncourage Information Literacy • Identify key concepts and key words • Choose the search tool • Keep searching > new top 10’s • Evaluate the resources
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
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
2. Teachers should clearly define references to be used with caution ~myname Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire .org ??
Citation Machine 3. Simplify the citation process http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/howto/cited/
Turnitin.com 9th graders – one semester grace period Deters student plagiarism before it starts
4. Provide JIT access to portals, databases and search engines
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
Dir.Google CompletePlanet Google Advanced Whois Teoma Vivisimo Yahoo Directory Utilize the “Links” bar Create a search engine folder
Inspiration Centralized filing: • Search brainstorming • Notes • Writing • URLs
Quotes Not “John Kennedy” Plus and minus Tilde ~paintings Advanced Pages versus Boolean I a about An Are as at Be By Com De En For From how The Basics Stop Words in is it la of on or thatthe thisto was what whenwhere who will withundthewww
Advanced Skills • When the page can’t 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?
Cached (for bad links) inURL:cancer inTitle:“Internet Explorer” Link:www.steds.org(who links to this site) meteor filetype:pdf telescopes site:Nasa.gov or skates site:edu Related:lynda.com (similar sites) Power Searching
Google Extras • Define:xxx • Spelling and synonyms • Calculator www.googleguide.com/calculator.html • Phonebook • Dir:google.com
6. Emphasize web siteevaluation • Who owns the site • Why was it created • When was it most recently updated • Who links to it?
The internet is a place where you can find ‘proof’ of essentially any belief system that you can imagine.
http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.htmlA 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.
What can the URL tell me? http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html 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
Who Owns the Domain? http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois
Trim the URLto learn more about a site http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~abutz/di/ http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~abutz/ http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu
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
Review search engines every 6 mos. Search Engine Watch http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/
Recreational Searching • Search the Book – generic.A9.com • Identify hoaxes • Shop: Froogle.com • Reverse phone lookups, people searching • Control favorites: Backflip / PowerMarks
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/features/techtalk/20020915abouturl.html • Evaluating Web Pages – UC Berkeley http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html • Bernie Dodge. Four Nets for Better Searching. http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm • Search Engine Watchhttp://searchenginewatch.com/facts/ • Bob Rankin – Guide to Internet Searching