ICT Research. Alice Keeler sur Twitter : "6 Steps to Teaching Students to Search. Google Alert A Great Tool to Help Student Researchers. March 21, 2014 One of the wonderful tools from Google that is often overlooked by students is Google Alert. I have been using it for a few years now and it has helped me a lot both in my graduate studies and also in my educational blogging. Google Alert allows you to create alerts around topics you are interested in and start receiving emails with updates about your search query. For instance as a doctoral student with a research interest in emerging literacies , I have created an alert with the name " emerging literacies" and each time something new published online with those key words in it I get an email with a link to it. This keeps me abreast of the latest releases in my area of research.
I also use Google Alert to track down authors and scholars whose works are related to my research areas. I simply create a Google Alert with their names as the alert titles and next time they publish something I get it first. Here is how to create a Google Alert Head over to Google Alert. World Book Online - A Great Starting Point for Research. The Whole Student: Cognition, Emotion, and Info... Seven Shifts in How Students Do Research - Education Rethink. Image Credit: Research by Andrew Nolte from The Noun Project When I first began teaching, I viewed research as something separate from the rest of learning.
We did research projects or we kept the research as a phase within a project. Since then, I've had some shifts in how we do research: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. John Spencer is a teacher, author, speaker, and incessant doodler. How to Perform a Hashtag Search Across Multiple Channels. When you run a conference, event or Twitter chat, how do you monitor the traffic that is generated across multiple channels? Do you know how to track conversations across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram? The initial question came up after a discussion with my good friend Shonali Burke, so I thought it was worth exploring! Hashtags are no longer unique to Twitter, so you need to include these other channels, too. 1. What’s the Point of Hashtags? A lot of hashtags are used in a way that they were not intended for.
Going to a party going to have fun #cantwaitforit This is an example of the kind of nonsense hashtags that are shared a lot. The real point of a hashtag is to help people filter relevant conversations. So, when you are creating hashtags, think about how they can be useful for people who want to filter relevant conversations. 2. A) Check to see if the hashtag you want has already been created. 3 What Platforms are Hashtags Relevant on? 4. A) Tagboard A filtered view based on the hashtag. 10 Free Mobile Apps to Create Awesome Drawings and Doodles. One thing students, kids and even some adults love to do is drawing. There are a bunch of awesome drawing tools I have covered here before that can allow you to easily make drawings and skectches online . Some of these tools have social part in the sense that users can share their drawings on popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.
Users can also invite their budies and start collaborating together in real time and even chat back and forth while they are drawing. All these features and many more others are great for students and learners. Here is the list of the free drawing apps. Easily create sketchesMake drawingsMake doodlesCreate shapes,add text, and share with others. I have included a Google Docs and Issuu presentations containing these apps. 1- Doodle Budy Gold It allows userst to create sketches and doodles using their fingers. 2- Big Fat Convas 3- How to Draw How to Draw is a great Android app that allows its users to make awesome drawings. 4- Sync Space.
Reigning-in-the-information-deluge. In the first season of the IFC comedy “Portlandia,” lead character Fred Armisen gets stuck in a “technology loop,” unable to do anything because he is compulsively checking his Facebook, his Twitter, his cell phone, the latest pictures of cute puppies on the Internet, his Netflix queue … (More) Click image for full size: You’re welcome to embed this image on your blog, the code is here: [sourcecode language="html"]<a href=" src=" Of course, information overload is nothing new. As the writer of Ecclesiastes admonished his readers in the 3rd century BCE, “Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” More information does not by itself produce better results This explosion of available information made possible by the Internet is amazing.
Related. Tools of Research: EasyBib Mobile App and Books. 21st Century Research Tools: Computer, EasyBib iPhone App, and Books. Quixey Search and Find Apps for Free. Quixey is a great search engine for mobile apps. It resembles Appsylum ( the other apps search engine I covered before ). Using these websites will save you the hustel and bustel of looking for apps in different websites. This is a single platform that assembles hundreds of apps from all categories. Quixey has apps from almost all the major mobile operators like: Blackberry, iOS, Android.
You will also find apps pertaining to Windows and Chrome. Watch this video to learn more about Quixey. All Educational Productions. Search by Color? A Little-Known Trick to Find the Right Image. Digital Tools Flickr: Richard Morton By Tasha Bergson-Michelson At its heart, clever searching lies at the intersection of critical thinking, imagination, and the savvy use of technical tools. Google Search Educator Tasha Bergson-Michelson begins a series of guest posts about innovative ways to approach finding information and the problems we can solve when we bring together technology, creativity, and education. It’s right before bedtime on Sunday night, and your child just announced that she has a report due in the morning about heroes. When searching for the New England Patriots, you get a variety of images–but many of them logos, or fan created photo montages on a background of the team colors.
Looking at this first screen of results, considering what to do next, a savvy searcher asks what pictures of people actually playing football would all have in common. One picture above immediately catches the eye: the green photo in the third row. Let’s take another example. Give it a try! Search by Color? A Little-Known Trick to Find the Right Image. Sweet Search.