1. Pose a personal, passionate inquiry question that connects to social justice issues.
See 10 Self / 10 World Questions.
2. Find 5 keywords to describe this area of inquiry.
- Use Google's Wonder Wheel to refine your keywords for searching.
- Still stuck? Find something of interest to you in Google News' Spotlight
3. Search by web genres.
- blogs: Google Blog Search, Technorati, IceRocket
- news items: Google News, New York Times Archive Since 1981, News is Free, The Learning Network (NY Times)
- articles, journals, and books: Find Articles, Google Scholar, Opposing Viewpoints (library log in required), Google Books, Give Me Something to Read
- video and audio podcasts: Odeo, NPR Search, The SpokenWord, Podfeed, blip.tv, Creative Commons, Free Documentaries
- microblogs: Twitter Search, Twingly, Tweetzi, Tumblr, Posterous
- images: Google Advanced Image Search, flickr advanced search (turn CC on), comfight + flickr, stock.xchng, Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons
- poetry: Poetry Online, Passions in Poetry, Poetry Search Engine, Poetry Search Engine 2000 XKZ
- a few state data bases: EBSCO Publishing, NOVEL NY New York Online Virtual Electronic Library, MARVEL, Maine's Virtual Library, GALILEO, Georgia's Virtual Library, Power Library, Pennsylvania
4. Use the Diigolet or Post to Diigo or the Diigo Toolbar to highlight and add sticky notes to the sources you find.
5. Use Customized Google Searches
- Find sites with Data and add these charts and graphs to your Discussions.
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Paul, This looks very
Paul,
This looks very interesting - simple and neat but requires a great deal of skill and knowledge to carry it out. It's not for the first time you introduce students to research or the Internet. I'm wondering where it fits in relation to the other research pieces. It seems to me that this makes sense for students who have done some of the earlier research pieces (like the 10 self/world questions) and I wonder if there is a place to indicate that to someone coming to this work for the first time.
Thanks for the introduction to some new web tools - wonder wheel and diigolet.
Feliciag