Be+a+Better+Researcher

**Be a Better Researcher**
**Presenter(s):** Jen Ward, 21st Century Teaching and Learning Coach, Haverford School District

**Description:** When looking for food, the bee travels from flower to flower to flower. This is the traditional way that we think about researching. We go to a search engine and jump from web page to web page to web page. This is tiring and inefficient. Instead, we need to be like the spider. The spider spins a web and waits for his food to come to him. He doesn't waste time. He has found a better way to make what he want come to him. So, how can we teach students to do that as researchers? This session will focus on the basics of Google search options, alerts, and social bookmarking.

Teachers will learn by doing. We will set up Google alerts and a bookmarking page as well as discuss how these tools might be incorporated into classroom practice.

@http://wardsworld.pbworks.com/Better-Researching http://www.delicious.com www.google.com []

Google Extras - Use Wonder wheel - changes search term into a graphic organizer (within google) Timeline - changes search into time line event to determine what time period is most searched. Using Time Constraints - set time limits on your search parameters. Google Scholar - link to professional journals, books, etc.

Set up Google alerts. (see handout)

Using Delicious, digg, other social bookmarking sites.

Using a site search - examples site:nationalgeographic.com link:sitename.com define:sitename.com

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