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Metacognition, n.

Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes, esp. regarded as having a role in directing those processes.

- Oxford English

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Selecting a topic - exploring interests, discussing ideas, browsing resources

Finding information - generating questions, exploring resources

Using information - taking notes, analyzing materials, recording the process

Developing a final product - developing communications, sharing experiences

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Social Medical Legal Employment

Personal Concern

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I-Search: Medical: cleidocranial dysplasia Medical Databases

Orthopedic Dissertations

Surgical Textbooks

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I-Search: Example: Medical

Selecting a topic – Medical Condition (cleidocranial dysplasia)

Finding information – concept mapping, websites & web tools, medical databases (general), medical professionals, networking tools, blogs

Using information - taking notes, analyzing materials, interview people in the field

What I learned – Treatment/Options

Selecting a topic - browsing resources

Keywords

Concept Maps Concept mapping is a brainstorming strategy to

help you generate ideas for your assignment, visually organize information, and make connections between different concepts.

Concept Maps: Critical Questions What is the central word, concept, research

question or problem around which to build the map?

What are the concepts, items, descriptive words or telling questions that you can associate with the concept, topic, research question or problem?

Concept Maps: Suggestions Use a free association approach by

brainstorming nodes and then develop links and relationships. Use different colors and shapes for nodes & links to identify different types of information.

Gather information to a question in the question node.

Mind mapping software (web-based) Bubbl.us - Web-based mind mapping /

concept mapping

Mappio - Web-based mind mapping from structured text

Mindomo - Web-based mind mapping

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Selecting a topic - browsing resources World Wide Web ( NoodleTools) Library Databases Library Catalog (Books) Reference Collection WorldCat

Evaluating Websites

Authority

Accuracy

Objectivity

Currency

Finding information- generating questions, exploring resources Primary & Secondary Sources

Personal Interviews

Professional Associations

Finding information- Primary & Secondary Sources Primary sources are the "materials

on a topic upon which subsequent interpretations or studies are based, anything from firsthand documents such as poems, diaries, court records, and interviews to research results generated by experiments, surveys, ethnographies, and so on."

Primary sources are records of events as they are first described, without any interpretation or commentary. They are also sets of data, such as census statistics, which have been tabulated, but not interpreted.

Secondary sources, on the other hand, offer an analysis or a restatement of primary sources. They often attempt to describe or explain primary sources. Some secondary sources not only analyze primary sources, but use them to argue a contention or to persuade the reader to hold a certain opinion.

Primary Secondary

Original artwork

POW diary

Poem

Treaty

Article critiquing the piece of art

Book about POW Camp

Treatise on a particular genre of poetry

Essay on Native American land rights

Primary & Secondary Sources Primary Sources

Person Interview E-Mail contact Event Discussion Debate Community Meeting Survey Artifact Observation of object

(animate and inanimate)

Secondary Sources

Reference Material Book CD Rom Encyclopedia Magazine Newspaper Video Tape Audio Tape TV

Finding information – Professional Associations

Encyclopedia of Associations

R 060 En195

A comprehensive list of national organizations described briefly, with names, addresses, and telephone numbers. Associations keep track of industry data for their members and may have valuable information on an industry that would not be found in standard business sources. Indexes include name of organization, key word, and geographic area.

Finding information – Personal Interviews

Get information by talking with people who have knowledge you want.

Sometimes you simply want to know what their experience has been.

Sometimes you want their expert opinion, sometimes their knowledge of the facts.

Which of these kinds of information are you after?

Finding information – Personal Interviews When you make an appointment, you need to

introduce yourself and tell what capacity you are calling in, explain the purpose of your call, explain why you would like to talk with the person, and request permission to set a time and place.

Conducting Interviews

Field Research Conducting an Interview

Tools

Research Journal….Keep One Concept Maps Noodle Tools Interviews

RSS Social Networks Blogs: Technorati

RSS Feeds

RSS In Plain English Gather information from across the Web and

bring it to you Library databases are now incorporating RSS

feeds into their products, check here for more information.

Blogs

Blogs

A place to disseminate information on a particular subject and allows direct feedback from the readers of this content. Blogging: Personal participation in public

knowledge-building on the web Did you know the library has a blog?

Technorati : Tracking the Live Web

Blogs - Services

Blogger WordPress Movable Type TypePad

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Using information - taking notes, analyzing materials, recording the process

Developing a final product - developing communications, sharing experiences

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Serendipity

The faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident. Also, the fact or an instance of such a discovery.

- Oxford English Dictionary

Thank You

Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S.

Instructional Services Librarian

580 774 7113

frederic.murray@swosu.edu