Research+Skills

=Refining a Search - Monday=

[|How to search successfully]

[|Boolify]

[|Creative Commons - Flickr]

[|Flickr-advanced search of images]

=Bibliography Tools - Tuesday= [|citation machine] no account needed - generates one entry at a time - you can then copy and paste into your bibliography - but you need to sort it alphabetically yourself...
 * try either of these free online bibliographic entry generators - simply choose the citation format, the type of source and enter the details, and the generator provides the correctly fomatted entry

[|BibMe - Bibliography maker] - create an account, and save your bibliographic entries as you go - will generate correctly formatted, alphabetically sorted bibliography when done

[|Bibliography sources online]

=Lesson plan for Tuesday, Period 2:= __ Workshop Plan: Research Skills __

1) Play Video: [|Web-search strategies]

2) Discussion of yesterday’s findings: How effective is google?  How reliable is it?  How many of you actually referred to sites like //answers.com// or //wikipedia//?

3) Get students to choose 5 websites related to the focus of their team’s film. (This can be background info on the topic, and/or “how’to’s in terms of film construction, or even video samples…) and discuss the reliability of information in groups or pairs. - What makes an author/site reliable? (the absence of pop ups, spam etc) and author acknowledgement.

4) Using the Powerpoint template for notetaking ( [|big6blanknotetakingtemplate.ppt] ), which students can download from wikispaces, students put heading onto a slide, dot point info from websites in step 3, and copy and paste url into space at bottom of slide. Explain how this process can be used to aid research and keep track of sites used, ensuring they dot point info and then translate into own words.

5)Students to log onto []
 * Create their own bibliography and account. They should use, as a starting point, the sites from step three so they can start constructing the bibliography that will appear on the end of their film.