Effective+Internet+Researching

=//Effective Internet Searching:// = [|Search Engines:] search based on a computerized spider that seeks out words on pages  1. [|Google]  2. [|Yahoo]  3. [|Ask]  4. [|exalead]

 [|Metasearches:]  1. [|Vivisimo]  2. [|Yippy]  3. [|dogpile]  4. [|metacrawler]

 [|Directories:] search from human chosen pages, not a computerized spider  1. [|Ipl2]  2. [|INFOMINE]  3. [|Google Directory]  4. [|Yahoo Directory]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Other Search Engines: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 1. [|WolframAlpha] – Computational Knowledge Engine <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 2. [|Sweet Search] 3. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|eyePlorer] – graphical knowledge engine <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 4. [|TEL] – Tennessee Electronic Library <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 5. [|TeVA] – Tennessee Virtual Archive <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 6. [|TSLA] – Tennessee State Library and Archive
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|WolframAlpha for Educators]
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|The Top 10 Reasons Students Cannot Cite or Rely on Wikipedia]
 * 2) [|YoLink] - plugin that can be downloaded and installed into web browser

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Kids Search Engines: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 1. [|Yahoolagins] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 2. [|Ithaki] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 3. [|Awesome Library] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 4. [|KidsClick]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Narrow Down Which Search Engine to Use: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 1. [|Noodle Tools] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 2. [|Soople] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 3. [|Recommended Search Engines] – Univ. of California <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 4. [|Search the Internet]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Scholarly Archives: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 1. [|JSTOR] – school subscription <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 2. __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Google Scholar] __ 3. [|Google Books] 4. __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|Library of Congress Primary Sources] __ 5. [|Teaching with Documents: Lesson Plans] – The National Archives
 * 1) __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|About Google Scholar] __
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|Making Google Scholar Work for You]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Searching Tips: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 1. [|Tips to Effective Internet Searching] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 2. [|How to Search the Internet Effectively] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 3. [|Recommended Search Engines] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 4. [|Finding Information on the Internet] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 5. [|Seven Steps Toward Better Searching] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 6. [|Four NETS for Better Searching] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 7. [|The Spider’s Apprentice] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 8. [|Digital Librarian] 9. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|Google Advanced Search] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|_Instructions] - from i4c <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 10. [|Internet Detective: Wise up to the Web] – great for students <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">11. [|Rockwell Schrock’s Boolean Machine] – great for students

<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> __Researching Tips:__ <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">1. __<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Research Skills] __<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> – helps students understand how to research <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> 2. __<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Ten Steps to Better Web Research] __ <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> 3. __<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|What is the Big6?] __

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Online Encyclopedias: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 1. [|Encyclopedias and Almanacs] - Univ. of California <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 2. [|Encyclopedia.com] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 3. [|dke-encyclopedia]<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> – Incredible Pictures <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 4. [|dke-encyclopedia.science]<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> – Incredible Pictures <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 5. [|dke-guides] 6. [|Fact Monster] 7. [|The Old Farmers Almanac]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Online Dictionaries and other References: <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1. [|Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary] <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">2. [|ThinkMap Visual Thesaurus] <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">3. [|Shahl’s Visual Dictionary] <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">4. [|Google’s Dictionary] <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">5. [|Wordnik] – online dictionary with examples, pronunciations, and thesaurus <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">6. [|Visuwords] - online graphical dictionary

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Evaluating Websites: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 1. [|Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 2. [|Critical Evaluation Information] – Kathy Schrock <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 3. [|Alexa] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 4. [|Martin Luther King, Jr. Website]
 * 1) [|Googling to the Max] – hands on excercise– PDF Handout
 * 2) [|Comparing Google Books and Google Scholar] – PDF Handout
 * 3) [|Beyond Google] – hands on exercise – PDF Handout
 * 4) [|Webpage Evaluation Checklist] – PDF Handout

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Fake Websites: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 1. [|BoilerPlate] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 2. [|Buy an Ancestor Online] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 3. [|California’s Velcro Crop Under Challenge] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 4. [|Cybertan] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 5. [|Moonbeam Enterprises] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 6. [|Fisher-Price Airplane] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> 7. [|Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Documenting Sources <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">1. [|Son of Citation Machine] - MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago all free <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">2. [|EasyBib] - Only MLA is free but works with YoLink