http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf

Information behaviour ofthe researcher of the future11 January 2008

“Go onto Google and find out some information about the kiwi.Write 5 facts!”

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/kids/games/index.html

“Go onto Google and find out some information about Kiwis inNew ZealandWrite 5 facts!”

http://www.chemistry.co.nz/kiwibird.htm

• keyword also key word ( ) n. A word that serves as a key to a code or cipher. A significant or descriptive word. (www.answers.com )

• Is a word that is associated with a site or contents of a site. Keywords are used to categorize and search for specific web sites. (http://www.mantis.biz/glossary/#k )

• The more keywords you have the less the ‘hits’ (sometimes)

• Try these examples and record the number of hits

– Kiwi

– Kiwi New Zealand

– Kiwi brown spotted New Zealand

23,100,00

8,940,00

5,680,00

• Dinosaur• Dinosaur carnivore• Dinosaur carnivore Triassic

• Tyrannosaurus • Tyrannosaurus prey

• 24,400,000• 147,000• 10,900

• 2,530,000• 67,500

Do a search on a topic you are doing at the moment with one keyword, record the hits, now try it with another keyword, recordand then one more time. Look at the quality of the hits

“Go onto Google, type in your keywords and find out some information about brown spotted Kiwis inNew Zealand

• Developing questions & keywords for research– Writing the Question– What do we know about?

See Example

What do we know about Tsunamis?

can travel very fast

caused by undersea

earthquakes

fast and low in deep water

slow and high in

shallow water

it can be more

than one wave

houses and land can be

destroyed

Why does the wave slow down

in shallow water?

waveslow

shallow

1Make a mindmap of what you know about Tsunamis.

2 Select one of the points that you would like to know more about.

3 Click on the Create button, type in your sentence, change the symbol to a Question mark.

4 Add more symbols and think of some keywords to go with the question.

Hint: some of the words maybe in your question and they will be more likely a noun or a verb

tsunamiwater

• Create basic mindmaps• Save online• Others can edit it• Can be embedded into wikis and blogs

http://jacquisharp.blogspot.com/2008/06/bubblus-online-collaborative.html

Finding Keywords can be one of the most difficult tasks for children.It is easier to think in sentence chunks or type in the whole question!

Break up the question. When choosing a keyword from the answers, check that it answers the main Question!

Breaking down internet addresses to understand who made the website.

• People’s first response is to believe what they see and what they hear

• Students need to be critical viewers

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfi8OEz0rA&eurl

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U&eurl

Ideas adapted from http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-believe-everything-you-see-online/

• Use this website to guide your students to critically assess the information provided to them

• http://allaboutexplorers.com/

Ideas adapted from http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/03/11/dont-believe-everything-you-see-online/

Students will often go to any website that is offered in Google and take what they need from it without considering the authenticity of the site.

Tsunamis are unlike wind-generated waves, which many of us may have observed on a local lake or at a coastal beach, in that they are characterized as shallow-water waves, with long periods and wave lengths.

If yes, then copyand paste that sentence only intoyour notes page

Records and lists Websites as you visit them

• Evernote allows you to capture information in any environment using whatever device (phone or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere. Did we mention that it's free?

http://www.viewzi.com/

EXTENDING THE RESEARCH PROCESS

Search Engines, Web2.0, Youtube, news feeds…

Search Engines

WikipediaBlogsLatest newsVideosYoutubeImagesBooksHow stuff works

http://www.refseek.com/

http://www.tafiti.com/

Older students

Younger students

Single word search

• Use your keywords • browse the

– Footnotes – References– External Links– Images and video

http://search.creativecommons.org/

Videos on what Creative Commons is http://creativecommons.org/videos/#wwt

Free content on the Internet

• http://www.flickr.com/ • Accesses images on any computer that has internet

access

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf What do we know about young peoples information behaviour

• http://www.morguefile.com/ free photos• http://www.freephotosbank.com/ free photos• http://school.discovery.com/clipart/ free clipart• Hot Potatoes download

http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/hot_pot_download.php • Youtube http://youtube.com/ Teacher tube http://teachertube.com/• Artrage http://www.ambientdesign.com• Comic Life http://http://plasq.com/comiclife • Web2.0 and Education http://jacquisharp.blogspot.com • Sharp, J. (2006). Graphic Organisers. Ideas and activities with CD.