Search+Techniques+on+Internet

How are we assuring that our students are getting good research skills? How do we teach to discriminate? Who's responsibility is it to teach these skills?

How do you search the internet: Add to the new voicethread here.

http://voicethread.com/#e21726 (The permissions need to be changed for this. Not letting me --or others, I assume--view it) Search Techniques—Session 3 – Ellen Baru

Not just google? Where can they go? Databases you pay for?

Science Online database

No info literacy program in place for teaching our students

Teach strategies for searching, ethics, wikipedia warnings

Book report wikis where students collaborate—good in lower grades

Can’t use images and music from the web without giving credit—can’t publish it, either

Discovery School -- Kathy Schrock

OneSearch – a federated search product you set up to search the databases you subscribe to

Media literacy

Databases with controlled vocabulary

Serendipity – lost in the stacks

lii.org

google yahoo search.com live.com

google game

the more terms you use, the narrower your search results will be

neit.wikispaces.com a voice thread to record “how I search”

brief notes: