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Last week I hosted a Practical Ed Tech webinar titled Ten Search Strategies Students Need to Know. Afterwards I had many requests for accessing the recording of the webinar. The webinar is now available on demand. If you missed it, the webinar is available as an on-demand webinar right here on Practical Ed Tech. Via Elizabeth E Charles 
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15 hours of free training in just 5 minutes a day. 180 free computer technology tips that will teach you basic computer skills in just 5 minutes a day Via Elizabeth E Charles
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The Google alternatives workshop is a regular on the UKeiG training calendar. We don’t guarantee that you will be weaned off Google by the end of the day but we do try and highlight other search engines and tools that might be better for certain types of information. At the end of the workshops the participants pull together a list of Top Tips. These could be a tool or website they have just discovered, a search command, or a general approach or strategy to searching. The tips below are a combined list from two workshops attended by people from all sectors and types of company, and even included a couple of self-employed researchers. The sessions covered both general search tools and specialist services, and the Top Tips is an interesting mix of strategy and specific sites. Via Elizabeth E Charles
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The DiRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software. [ Link at: http://dirtdirectory.org/ ] Via Elizabeth E Charles
Anita Vance's curator insight,
July 25, 2014 8:32 AM
A great aid in targeting the best starting point for specific searches!
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For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, here is a handy visual featuring 8 important Google Drive search tips for teachers. More specifically, you will get to learn how to: search for a document that contains a specific phrase, search for files that contain at least one of the words, find documents that do not contain a particular word, find documents owned or shared by or with a particular person, search your Drive by document type, search for documents edited before or after a specific period of time, find documents by title, and finally find items that can be opened by only certain apps. Via Elizabeth E Charles
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The trouble with something so familiar as the Google search engine is the iceberg principle. You only use the bit you can see, the obvious 10% of the capacity. Once you confine yourself like that, then the results you’ll be getting will be similarly restricted. If you know what you’re doing though, you’ll find what you really need, rather than something that’s been better search-optimised, and you’ll find it quicker. Via Elizabeth E Charles
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In my previous post I shared that I like to have students create a list of things they know before they start to search. Once they move on to Googling things another common bad habit often rears its head. Via Elizabeth E Charles
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"Google Books is one of the research tools that Google offers, but a lot of students overlook. Google Books can be a good place for students to look for books and look within books that can help them with their research projects." Via Beth Dichter
Beth Dichter's curator insight,
October 31, 2013 8:37 PM
Have you checked out Google Books as a tool for research? Richard Byrne provides a great overview of how to have your students use this tool. He also provides a slideshow with directions that include screenshots. |
