Don't Miss These Excellent Back to School Resources from Wikispaces
Back in spring, the popular wiki-hosting platform Wikispaces debuted the-just-for-education product called Wikispace Classroom offering teachers and educators a more convenient space to create and host their classroom wikis. For those of you who are not yet familiar with the concept of using wikis in education I would recommend reading this excellent guide. Part of your work during this first month of your back to school would probably be channeled towards setting up a virtual space where you can share learning materials, assignments, homework, upload files, and where you can also engage parents in the learning taking place inside the classroom. Of course based on your digital inclinations and what works best for your teaching/ learning situation, your classroom virtual space can either be anything like a website, blog, or a wiki. Tutorials Here is a list of some god tutorials created by Wikispaces to help you better understand and use their platform effectively. Handouts
Do Your Students Know How To Search?
The Connected Student Series: There is a new digital divide on the horizon. It is not based around who has devices and who does not, but instead the new digital divide will be based around students who know how to effectively find and curate information and those who do not. Helene Blowers has come up with seven ideas about the new digital divide – four of them, the ones I felt related to searching, are listed below. The New Digital Divide: In an age of information abundance learning to effectively search is one of the most important skills most teachers are NOT teaching. Teachers – especially in the elementary grades -need to develop a shared vocabulary around the skill of searching. Here are some of the searching skills and vocabulary we should be teaching students : Quotation Marks: Students should always use quotes to search for an exact word or set of words. Example: “The Great Chicago Fire” Dashes (or minus sign): Example: Great Chicago Fire -soccer Two Periods: Site Search:
10 Great Google Search Tips for Teachers and Students
1- Search for an exact word or phrase Use quotes to search for an exact word or set of words. This option is handy when searching for song lyrics or a line from literature." Tip: Only use this if you're looking for a very precise word or phrase, because otherwise you could be excluding helpful results by mistake. 2-Exclude a word Add a dash (-) before a word or site to exclude all results that include that word. Tip: You can also exclude results based on other operators, like excluding all results from a specific site. 3- Search within a site or domain If you are looking for more results from a certain website, include site: in your query. Tip: Also search within a specific top-level domain like .org or .edu or country top-level domain like .de or .jp.olympics site:.gov 4- Search for Pages that link to a URL Using the link: operator, you can find pages that link to a certain page. Tip: You can also search for links to specific pages, like google.com/images.link:google.com/images
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Evaluating Your Sources | Amy's Scrap Bag: A Blog About Libraries, Archives, and History
Searching skills are not the only part of the pre-writing research process. Once a possible resource is located, the researcher must determine if the source is relevant. This process can be further subdivided into two main categories. First, check and make sure the information found fits the topic of research. Sometimes online material can be misleading or the online record from a book doesn’t provide enough information and the researcher will need to check the physical book to determine this. Second, the researcher needs to ensure the material is accurate, reliable, current, and is unbiased. The evaluation process for experienced researchers is often completed without much thought. To provide a framework on evaluation sources, at Ellis Library we taught the CRAAP Test. While the CRAAP Test is a great mnemonic device to remember the evaluation steps, I don’t think it is the best way to explain the process. Relevance The CRAAP Test places relevancy second. Currency Authority and Purpose
9 Great Google Alternatives for Academics and Student Researchers
Related : 9 Tips Every Teacher Should Know about Google Scholar JURN is another wonderful search engine to use to search for millions of free academic articles, chapters, and theses across multiple disciplines ( Arts, History, Humanities, Business, Economics, Ecology, Science and more). JURN is also a directory of over 3000 free arts and humanities journals that you can easily search from one single platform. 4- RefSeek RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers. 5- HighBeam HighBeam Research is a premium information service built for students, instructors, researchers, professionals, and others looking to gain deep knowledge on subjects of interest. 6- Springer BASE is a voluminous search engine especially for academic open access web resources.
Wikispaces Introduces a Brand New Look for Classroom Wikis
Wikispaces has been a great supporter of classrooms for years now. They allow any teacher to use their services to create wikis for free and without advertising. Today, Wikispaces introduced a brand new look for classroom wikis. Wikispaces Classroom is a new, free offering from Wikispaces. From the first look you'll notice that Wikispaces Classroom is quite different from the old Wikispaces format. Wikispaces is offering some free webinars about the new Wikispaces Classroom.
List of hoaxes on Wikipedia
This is a list of known historical hoaxes on Wikipedia. Its purpose is to document hoaxes on Wikipedia, in order to improve our detection and understanding of them. It is considered a hoax if it was a clear or blatant attempt to make up something, as opposed to libel, vandalism or a factual error. A hoax is considered notable if it evaded detection for more than one month or was discussed by reliable sources in the media. A hoax can be added to this page if it meets the requirements above. For many of the below hoaxes, you can see an archived version of the deleted article by clicking on its title (see also list of archived hoaxes). Hoaxes extant for at least one year[edit] Hoaxes extant for at least one month[edit] This section lists hoaxes covered for at least one month but less than one year. Hoaxes extant for less than one month[edit] Note: This section should list only hoaxes covered in independent third-party sources. See also[edit] Notes[edit] Further reading[edit]
Utmärkt visuell sökmotor för studenter ~ Educational Technology och mobilt lärande
November 7, 2014 InstaGrok is an interactive search engine that allows students to search for any topic in a visually engaging way. When students conduct a search query, InstaGrok finds the relevant information related to that query and present it in the form of interactive concept maps (grok). Using InstaGrok, students will be able to explore educational content including videos and images, evaluate sources, collect evidence and use it to craft a search report. InstaGrok also allows students to take notes while researching a topic and provides teachers with a section where they can review students work and create new assignments together with the ability to guides students throughout their research project. 1- How to Use InstaGrok with students in class , by Pascale Ngo 2- Instagrok demo
