Research: The 4th R

Karolyne Lucero, Ed.D.

Saint Edward’s SchoolVero Beach, FL 32963

klucero@steds.org

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"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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Developing the stance

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1. Identify key concepts and key words

2. Choose the search tool

3. Keep searching > new top 10’s

4. Evaluate the resources

The Research StanceEncourage Information Literacy

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Proactive Strategies

1. Articulate expectations2. Clarify teacher-imposed limitations3. Simplify the citation process4. Provide JIT tools5. Provide on-going search training6. Emphasize evaluation of web sites7. Provide ongoing and independent

assessment of research process

1. Students should be able to clearly articulate requirements & expectations

• what are they looking for• what key words might work• where they should look• how they will evaluate the results

Cite 5 Internet sources and 3 books

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2. Teachers should clearly define references to be used with caution

~myname

Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire

.org ??

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Citation Machine

http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/howto/cited/

3. Simplify the citation process

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Turnitin.com

9th graders – one semester grace period

Deters student plagiarism before it starts

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4. Provide JIT access to portals, databases and search engines

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Intranet: Research Launching Pad

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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

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Utilize the “Links” bar Create a search engine folder

• Dir.Google• CompletePlanet• Google Advanced• Whois • Teoma• Vivisimo• Yahoo Directory

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Note-taking Tip

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Inspiration

Centralized filing:

• Search brainstorming

• Notes

• Writing

• URLs

5. Provide ongoing search training

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• QuotesNot “John Kennedy”

• Plus and minus

• Tilde~paintings

• Advanced Pages versus Boolean

I a aboutAnAreas at BeByComDeEnForFromhow

in is it la of on or thatthe thisto was what whenwhere

who will withundthewww

Stop Words

The Basics

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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?

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Power Searching

• 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

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skates site:edu

• Related:lynda.com

(similar sites)

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Google Extras

• Define:xxx

• Spelling and synonyms

• Calculator www.googleguide.com/calculator.html

• Phonebook

• Dir:google.com

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6. Emphasize web site evaluation

1. Who owns the site

2. Why was it created

3. When was it most recently updated

4. Who links to it?

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The internet is a place where you can find ‘proof’ of essentially any belief system that you can imagine.

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http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html A 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.

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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

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Who links to the site?

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Who Owns the Domain?

http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois

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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

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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.comTeachers spot check references

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Review search engines every 6 mos.

Search Engine Watch

http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/

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Recreational Searching

• Search the Book – generic.A9.com

• Identify hoaxes

• Shop: Froogle.com

• Reverse phone lookups, people searching

• Control favorites: Backflip / PowerMarks

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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 Watch http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/

• Bob Rankin – Guide to Internet Searching