Student friendly guide to conducting research
Exploratree is a free web resource where you or your group can access a library of more than 24 ready-made interactive graphic organizers. The results can be edited, printed, and shared.
Collection of resources by Donna DesRoches, Learning Resources Consultant, Living Sky School Division, North Battleford, Saskatchewan
Very popular. Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist students in constructing their bibliographies. Updated to Version 5.0 in December, 2008. Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wXdbDCdzjc
"This page contains a wide variety of tools that can be used for individual or group mind mapping or brainstorming." This is one of many useful sets in the directory that is maintained by Jane Knight. See http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/ for daily picks. See http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/ for the complete directory
Try it out. The public beta version is free. "Use Webspiration's diagramming environment to create bubble diagrams, flow charts, concept maps, process flows and other visual representations that stimulate and reflect your thinking."
Looking for a speedy way to make a bibliography? - MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian - Free . Here's another citation/bibliography creation service along the lines of the Citation Machine that is so popular. It's called BibMe. Like Citation Machine, it's free, although you do have to register. It seems to be simple and flexible. Try it out at http://www.bibme.org/
Pop-up pictures are used to show ways of representing ideas and connections. Interesting, but perhaps not as useful as Eduplace Graphic Organizers that instructs students in how to use the graphic organizers. Also, the site called Graphic Organizers is another good spot along the same line.
Are you about to do research?
While your journey will have switchbacks, chances are you will take a path that has these steps: wondering about something, seeking information, choosing information, connecting useful information you have found, producing information of your own in a new form and judging the entire process and your product.
Tens of thousands of teachers have embraced WebQuests as a way to make good use of the internet while engaging their students in the kinds of thinking that the 21st century requires.
Information literacy standards for student learning, indicators for student performance, and hundreds of collaborative lesson plans around the country give us some indication of the skills students are expected to master as effective and efficient users of information.
NECC workshop . Move young people from being simply CONSUMERS of the Internet to CREATORS of the Web.
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Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz, Big6 Co-creators, Learn then confidently apply the Big6 approach in your classrooms.
One of the earliest educational websites on the Internet, Landmarks has served teachers since 1995 with links to teaching and learning resources on the Net and valuable Web tools.
National Plan for Implementation of Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and Guidelines for the School Library Media Program
Compilation of models and strategies for student inquiry