1. Encouraging Students to be better Researchers Is there life after Google? http://childrenasresearchers.wikispaces.com/
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3. Information behaviour of the researcher of the future 11 January 2008 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf
4. Mapped Identified Demonstrated Drawn Mindmapped Photographed Labelled Collected Analysed Modelled Interviewed Made Mimed Surveyed Sorted Described Videoed Created Listed Questioned Graphed Gathered Stated Explained Discussed Brainstormed Written Matched Timelined Classified
9. “Go onto Google and find out some information about the kiwi. Write 5 facts!”
10. Still 20 million hits… no facts at the end of the lab session! But somebodyfound a website with lots of cool games http://www.sandiegozoo.org/kids/games/index.html
11. “Go onto Google and find out some information about Kiwis inNew Zealand Write 5 facts!”
15. The technology behind Google’s great results http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
16. Keywords keyword also key word ( ) n. A word that serves as a key to a code or cipher. A significant or descriptive word. (www.answers.com ) Is a word that is associated with a site or contents of a site. Keywords are used to categorize and search for specific web sites. (http://www.mantis.biz/glossary/#k ) What are keywords?
17. Keywords The more keywords you have (most of the time) the less the ‘hits’ Try these examples and record the number of hits Kiwi Kiwi New Zealand Kiwi brown spotted New Zealand Hits 25,000,000 Click on pages from New Zealand 8,320,00 56,300
27. Developing questions & keywords for research Writing the Question What do we know about?
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29. Create basic mindmaps Save online Others can edit it Can be embedded into wikis and blogs http://www.bubbl.us/index http://jacquisharp.blogspot.com/2008/06/bubblus-online-collaborative.html
32. Finding Keywords can be one of the most difficult tasks for children. It is easier to think in sentence chunks or type in the whole question! Break up the question. When choosing a keyword from the answers, check that it answers the main Question! Finding Keywords
33. Internet Addresses and What they mean Breaking down internet addresses to understand who made the website.
34. Fact or Opinion People’s first response is to believe what they see and what they hear Students need to be critical viewers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfi8OEz0rA&eurl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U&eurl Ideas adapted from http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-believe-everything-you-see-online/
35. Use this website to guide your students to critically assess the information provided to them http://allaboutexplorers.com/ Ideas adapted from http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-believe-everything-you-see-online/
36. http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Sellafield_Zoo/ a zoo with a difference http://www.rythospital.com/clyven/ intelligent mouse http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html is this dangerous? http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/ hunt the haggis http://www.genochoice.com/ designer babies http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
37. Fact or Opinion? Students will often go to any website that is offered in Google and take what they need from it without considering the authenticity of the site.
38. Internet Explorer 8 Sifting Use Ctrl – F (- F for Mac) Type in one of the keywords, press Enter on Keyboard First instance of the word will be highlighted Firefox 3 Explorer 7
39. Skimming & Scanning through the information Tsunamis are unlike wind-generated waves, which many of us may have observed on a local lake or at a coastal beach, in that they are characterized as shallow-water waves, with long periods and wave lengths. If yes, then copyand paste that sentence only intoyour notes page
47. Set up a class delicious pagewith links to different curriculumareas, games and resources Bookmark suitable sites for children to go to Set up a bundle Under the bundle name of Social Studies (or perhaps the name of the topic
57. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf What do we know about young peoples information behaviour http://www.morguefile.com/ free photos http://www.freephotosbank.com/ free photos http://school.discovery.com/clipart/ free clipart Hot Potatoes downloadhttp://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/hot_pot_download.php Youtubehttp://youtube.com/ Teacher tube http://teachertube.com/ Artragehttp://www.ambientdesign.com Comic Life http://http://plasq.com/comiclife Web2.0 and Education http://jacquisharp.blogspot.com Sharp, J. (2006). Graphic Organisers. Ideas and activities with CD.
