Research

Ola! Ni Hao! Merhaba! Hello!  Please join me on Thursday night for my Library 2.0 __//**online free**//__ presentation.  Conference info is at @http://www.library20.com/page/2-012-conference    TITLE: Searching the Web: Information Literacy Tips, Tricks, and Strategies for Educators - Melda Yildiz, Global Scholar

When Thu, October 4, 8pm – 9pm Description **SESSION LINK** - https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=L20Part163 If the session link doesn't work for you, please copy and paste into your browser. **Session Title:** Searching the Web: Information Literacy Tips, Tricks, and Strategies for Educators **Your Name and Title:** Melda Yildiz, Global Scholar **Your Library, School, or Organization Name:** Kean University **Name(s) of Co-Presenter(s):** **Area of the World from Which You Will Present:** USA **Language in Which You Will Present:** English **Target Audience:** Teacher Candidates, Teacher Educators, University Librarians, K12 Teachers **Short Session Description:** This session proposal will be based on online research tools, tips and strategies for in service and pre- service teachers. **Session Strand (use the "tag"):** deconstructing, education, information, literacy, teacher, websites **Full Session Description:** Without tools and methodologies for gathering, evaluating, managing, and presenting information, the Web's potential as a universe of knowledge could be lost." John December ( john@december.com )

In this session, we will share "Internet Search Skills" for developing lesson plans. Assuming the role of a student researching a lesson plan, educational resources, students not only explore various search engines and search skills but also authenticate the information on online resources.

Outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

. explore various search techniques to find educational resources effectively. · identify the importance of authenticating online resources. · recognize the signs of bias and omission in information and validate online information. · authenticate Web sources based on site authorship or ownership, content and currency. · describe the structure of uniform resource locators (URL's) and how URLs can be used to determine authorship and credibility.

Suggested activities:

Instructor provides the handout which includes Internet addresses.

Instructor asks the students deconstruct a URL address. Example: @http://www.xyz.ac.uk/publicat/periodicals/yildiz.html.

Discussion about Zack and the websites, uk stands for United Kingdom, ac stands for academia, etc.

Suggested discussion questions. · How many of you use the Internet for research and homework? · How would you rank the Internet as a homework resource, compared to the school library, and public library? · What are the advantages of the Internet over more traditional resources? · What are the disadvantages? · What is the difference between publishing material on the Internet, and publishing material in books? (Traditional publishing incorporates a series of "gatekeepers" such as editors, proofreaders and fact checkers. On the Internet, authors can bypass these gatekeepers. As long as you have the technical know-how to create a Web page, you can publish your thoughts online.) · How much of the information you find on the Internet do you think is true and can be trusted – all of it; most of it; some of it; none of it. · Do you ever do anything to confirm that the information you have found online is true and can be trusted? · What do you do to check that the information you find on the Internet is reliable? It's important that all of us – adults and young people – to learn how to search the online resources better and tell whether online information is accurate and trustworthy.

Students talk about the importance of search skills in the classroom. Reasons why the educators need to provide search tips, skills, strategies, and resources to the students.

Example search tips eliminating commercial sites showing up at the top of the search by putting - (minus) mp3 "Asian* music" - host:com - host:tr + host:org or simply use – (minus) sign –com + ac.uk

For library databases · Using the word AND between two words or phrases finds pages with both words or phrases – computers AND teaching.

· Using the word OR between two words or phrases finds pages with at least one of the words or phrases – laptops OR palmtops.

· Using the words AND NOT between two words or phrases finds pages with the desired word/phrase where the second word/phrase is not included – computers AND NOT apple.

· Using the word NEAR between two words or phrases finds pages where those words/phrases occur close to one another in any order – John NEAR Jack.

· To find all the pages that contain the variations of a word, i.e. child, children, childhood, etc., type child*. This can also be use to find pages which may contain variations in the spelling of a word - to get pages for theater and theatre, type theat*.

· To find pages that contain a particular image, such as an ocean, type image:oceans. · To find pages that contain a word in the URL, such as computers, type url:computers

Resources to be shared

World Catalog- Worldcat.org

Library Database Research

Noodle Tools- http://www.noodletools.com

Atomic Learning- @http://www.atomiclearning.com/

Teaching Zack to Think- @http://novemberlearning.com/resources/archive-of-articles/teaching-. ..

Jo Cool or Jo Fool- @http://mediasmarts.ca/game/jo-cool-or-jo-fool-grades-6-8 by Media Awareness Network- Media Smarts- @http://mediasmarts.ca/

Deconstructing Websites- @http://mediasmarts.ca/deconstructing-web-pages-teaching-backgrounder

Search Engine Watch- @http://searchenginewatch.com/

Image or video Search on Search engines

Merlot.org- @http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Project Gutenberg @http://www.gutenberg.org/

Library of Congress- @http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/

Lesson plans resources- such as @http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/

Searching for webquests

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:

http://ukean.wikispaces.com/ (Our slides will be posted on this page) **Link to Library 2.012 Session Proposal (full URL with http://)://** // http://www.library20.com/forum/topics/searching-the-web-information-literacy-tips-tricks-and-strategies **Other Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:** **Your Bio:** Melda is a global scholar and teacher educator in the School for Global Education and Innovation at Kean University and adjunct faculty in Master of Education in Technology in Education at Lesley University. 2009-2010, Melda served as the first Fulbright Scholar in Turkmenistan. Since 1994, she taught Media Literacy Education, Multimedia Production, Women Studies, Asian Studies, and Global Education to P-16 educators and teacher candidates. Melda worked as a Media Specialist at Northfield Mount Hermon School, taught video and media production to grades 9-12, and published and presented featuring Educational Media, Global Education, Media Literacy, Education Semiotics, and Multicultural Education in many national and international conferences. She received her Ed.D. from University of Massachusetts on Math & Science and Instructional Technology. She received an M.S. from Southern Connecticut State University on Instructional Technology. She majored in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Bogazici University, in Turkey. Email: mnyildiz@gmail.com //

//**If you are looking for a current article that needs subscription,**// //You may need to go to publishers page and get the Username and Password from Kean Library Periodical Search Website @ []// //And type the name of the periodical.// //and check under FullText access and click PW and the window gives you Username and Password. Example is given for Chronicle of Higher Education.//

// **Kean University Education Sites** // //Kean University Home Page __http://www.kean.edu/__// //School of Education __http://www.kean.edu/schools.ed.html__// //Teachers' Meeting Place __http://www.planet.net/ptmpheal/__// //Teachers' Performance Center __http://www.kean.edu/tpc__//

//**Professional Education Associations**// //National Council for Geographic Education// //__http://www.nc‑ge.org/__// //National Council for History Education// //__http://www.history.org/nche__// //National Council for Teachers of English// //__hftp:__//__www.ncte.org__ National Council for Teachers of Mathematics __http://www.nctm.org/__ National Council for Teachers of Science __http://www.nsta.org/__ National Council for Social Studies __http://www.ncss.org/__
 * General Educational / Other Sites**

Ask Eric __http://ericir.syr.edu/__ Awesome Library ‑ K‑1 2 Education Directory __http://www.neat‑schoolhouse.org/awesome.html__ Children's Software Reviews __http://gv3pluto.leidnuniv.ni/steve/reviews/welcome.htm__ Classroom Connect [] Common Core Standards. National State Innitiative. http://www.corestandards.org/ Developing Educational Standards: Overview __http://putwest.boces.org/standards.htmi__ Educational Software Institute __http://ww~d.edsoft.com/__ Global Education Collaborative http://globaleducation.ning.com/ The Federal Web Locator __http://www.law.vill.edu/fed‑agency/fedweb.new.htmi__ Library of Congress __http://thomas.loc.gov/__ New Jersey State Department of Education. //New Jersey Core Content Curriculum// //Standards.// Trenton, New Jersey. __http://www.state.nj.us/education/educators/__ New Jersey State Legislature __http://www.noleg,state.no.us__ SuperKids Educational Software Review __http://www.superkids.com/__ World Village School House __http://www.worldvillage.com/wv/school/html/school.htm__ Alta Vista http://altavista.digital.com/ Google http://www.google.com Lycos http://www.lycos‑com/ Search.com http://www.search.com/nscp Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/ Wolframalpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/
 * Search Engines**

IPL.org []

Google Advance Search- []

Image- []

Google Scholar Advance Search- []

Mobile Learning- Link- Easy Bib http://easybib.com/public/list/key/d3f296