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Research Skills

2013HOW TO RESEARCH EFFECTIVELY USING WISDOM,GRACE AND STYLE. PIPPA DAVIES: HCOS ONLINELIBRARIAN.

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“Thy word is a lamp

unto my feet, and a

light unto my path.”

Psalm 119:105

How can I effectively find resources for my projectin a safe and ethical way?

How do I teach digital citizenship?

How do we include worldview?

How do we compile our work in an aestheticallypleasing way?

How do we evaluate resources online?

How do we cite effectively in our bibliography?

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Creating your digital

footprint! Create filters when your students are young,

and monitor time spent online.

Start by learning how to be Webonauts.Grade 4-7. If high school students , grade8-like Commonsense Media12 use the UBCDigital Dossier files.

Discover Commonsense Media and Media

Smarts

Teach your students how to define researchterms using Google Lesson Plans

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That essay topic?

Once we have decided on our researchtopic we can choose to do our researchusing primary and secondary documents.Brainstorm thesis statement..

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Essential Question!

Provokes deep thought.

Solicits information-gathering and evaluation ofdata.

Results in an original answer.

Helps with problem-related research.

Makes students produce original ideas rather thanpredetermined answers.

May not have an answer. REALLY!

Encourages critical thinking not regurgitation offacts.

Use Who, Why, Where and How questions tobrainstorm.

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Example ??

In the 2010 Vancouver Olympics examine howBiblical stewardship was practiced by; officials,citizens, athletes and other members of thecommunity, and whether this contributed to the

overall success of the games?

Basic Question?Write some facts about your favorite athlete who wasrepresented in these winter Olympics.

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Tame the Web?

You will need at least 2 books to add to your bibliography, and or 4-6 websites. Use databases like Ebscohost and DiscoveryStreaming to find copyright free images and articles, academic,current and reliable.

Contact your friendly librarian!

My Folder or Evernote to store sources for bibliography.

HCOS Web Linking Library 

 Internet Public Library 

 Kids Love to Learn

Websites like Bill Nye on Youtube, and ALA Great Websites 

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Digital Boundaries for 

Digital Natives

Teach Bookmarking tools like Diigo and Symbaloo.

Younger students Printing Press.  Older students share infor mation online using

curation tools like Scoopit, LiveBinders, andMentorMob. 

Reference Tools like Wolfram Alpha, and KhanAcademy. OPenUniversityonITunes. 

Child friendly search engines like Sweet Search andAsk Jeeves.

Websites like Bill Nye on Youtube, and ALA GreatWebsites http://gws.ala.org/ 

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When to use Google?

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Google can be useful

for  Needle in haystack kind of queries; When was

someone famous born.

Can we use Wiki’s? When? 

Check side of wiki under language for Simple Englishtool. Downlaod Chrome apps from Chromewebstore to share talk features Chrome Speak andSpeech Recognizer 

Images if using correct copyright formula.

Good keywords defining parameters of your topic.Keep refining.

Knowledge of website evaluation tools.

For academic sites go to Advanced Google Search!

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 Advanced G gle!

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How To Evaluate a Good

website!

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Evaluate Websites

Currency

 Authority

Purpose

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Evaluate the following sites http://www.dhmo.org/ 

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/  http://www.mcwhortle.com/about.htm 

Watch this Rutgers University Library videolink below to evaluate sites.

http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/lib_instruct/riot/ 

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  Academic Pathfinders

Ebscohost including Canadian ReferenceCentre and Searchasaurus. Get your username and password to log in from your teacher- all the academic information you

will need for projects. Plus citation links andfolders for making notes in My Folder.

Other subscriptions such as World Book,Discovery Education Streaming Canada,

and BrainPop.

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Worldview

Where is God in the story.

Why did God allow this to take

place?

How does God use fallen

characters to bring us to Him?

How does God use Christian

characters to exemplify Him? What does God give us that we

can be thankful for?

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Presentation Supremacy Google Doc, Website,

Podcast, video or machinima

Book report, 5 paragraphessay, combo?

If presenting in book reportformat, remember the clues,T, C, N, B. Includebibliography at end.

Images, maps, diagrams,charts.

Bibliography a la MLA?

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Digital SkillsAnimating

TaggingRecording

PostingBookmarking

Uploading

Attributing

EditingTweetingSearching

SubscribingPodcasting

Learning

Skills

Finding InformationValidate Information

Synthesize InformationEvaluate Information

Communicate

Information

Thinking

Skills

Critical ThinkingDivergent ThinkingReflective Thinking

Convergent ThinkingProblem solving

Collaboration / Team Work Contextualized Learning

Peer ReviewSelf Assessment

Real life tasked-basedlearning

Use of Art and DigitalMedia

21

Centurystudent

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 Bibliography for  U is

ESSENTIAL! How do we cite? Citation builder: 

Bibliography style. MLA.

Bibliography information to be found

at Owl Of Purdue Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ 

Bib Me or others Check weblinkinglibrary under Library Services:

Bibliographic Instruction.

Ebscohost and My Folder.

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Bibliography sample!

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Check List Edited all work several times. Use Grammarly.

Check plagiarism using Viper http://www.scanmyessay.com/ 

or Turnitin.

http://turnitin.com/ 

Bibliography checked.

Work neatly presented and collated.

Know subject well to answer questions for 

presentation.

Thank God for what you have learned about Hiswisdom in using the resources we have, to write andshare honestly, and give credit to Him.