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= Information Literacy and Searching Skills = Monday, July 11, 2011 [|Get to know you survey!] Agenda: 2. Four types of Literacy 3. Information Literacy 4. Exploration & Break ||< 1. Boolean Search 2. Google Advance Search 3. Creating Own Search Engine 4. WolframAlpha 5. ipl2 || Resources: toc Information Literacy [|Grade Level Chart of 21st Century Skills] [|21st Century Information Fluency] [|· Why Is Information Literacy So Important?] · [|FactCheckED] · [|Ten Steps to Better Research]
 * = Type of Literacy (First Hour) ||= Information Literacy-Searching (Second Hour) ||
 * < 1. Introductions

Web 2.0 Information
·60 Web 2.0 Tools in 60 Minutes

· Check out this [|amazing list] of Web 2.0 sites · [|Alphabetical Listing of Web. 2.0 tools] · [|Digital Research Tools] · Cool Tools for School · [|Joongel] - nicely organized list of Web 2.0 tools · Web 2.0 Guru - listing of tools by subject area · New Tools Workshop - great wiki with tons of information! For many web 2.0 sites, students might need email accounts. Here is a list of sites where you can have kids sign up using "disposable" email addresses. Information Literacy- Searching

Boolean Search
[|Understanding the URL] (Alan November) [|Understanding Boolean Search] (nice visual) [|Boolean Searching - nice explanation] [|The Boolify Project] - visual for teaching Boolean Searches

Find Quality Sites - Faster

Host/Site Command Finding information on a particular site. It is important that students use reliable sites on which to do their searching. However, many sites are so enormous that finding information on them can be difficult. This command will search only a particular site. You can also do this same thing by using the Google Advanced Search.

In Google:Type site:(domain name) + (search term) Examples:

To find information about polio on the CDC site: Google - site:cdc.gov +polio

To find information about polio vaccine on the CDC site: site:cdc.gov +polio +vaccine or site:cdc.gov + "polio vaccine"

To find the York interviews NPR did: Google: site:npr.org +York + PA

To find information on Sylvia Plath on the Poets.org site: Google: site:poets.org + "Sylvia Plath"

To find information about American Poets on the Thinkfinity site: Google: site:thinkfinityorg + "american poets" URL Command Different from the host command, the URL command will search for any URL's that contain the search term. Type: url:search term(s) Examples:

To find sites that contain the word lion: url:lion

To find sites educational sites that contain the word lion: url:lion +edu OR +k12

Using Google's Power
[|Google Web Search, Classroom Lessons and Resources] Google Wonder Wheel: •Conduct your regular Google Search. •On the results page, click on Show Options. •On left side, click on Wonder Wheel

GOOGLE: [|How Does It All Work] [|101 Tips] [|Google Advanced Operator Cheat Sheet] [|Google Librarian Central] [|Using Google Advanced Search] [|Four NETS for Better Searching] [|Google Quick Reference] [|Quick Help Reference] [|Google News] - News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods. [|Google Language Translator] - Search for pages written in various languages. Also can be used to translate text. [|Google Scholar] - Search for scholarly articles. [|Google Books] - Search for full text books. [|Google Blog Search] - Search for blogs. [|University Search] - Searches university sites for specific information [|Government Sites] - Search results are only from Government Sites. [|Apple] - Searches for all things Mac! [|Better ways to search Google News] [|Searching for Creative Commons Images] [|Creating Your Own Google Search Engine]

Other than Google. . . [|Cool Resources That Are Not Google] [|Searchme] - A Visual Search Engine [|Boolify] - Search using boolean commands [|Clusty] - Search results are put into categories [|Dogpile] [|Ask.com] [|Yahoo] [|Alta Vista] [|Refseek.com] [|Spific] [|Search Cube] - a visual search engine [|Mel Zoo] [|PolyCola] - search two search engines at the same time [|Top 100 Alternative Search Engines] [|Wikipedia for Schools] [|Wikipedia Beneath the Surface] - nice video of explanation

Wolfram/Alpha and More
[|Wolfram Alpha - Examples] [|Wolfram Alpha - BMI] [|Wolfram Alpha - Video] [|Google Squared] - What is it? Google Squared - Try it out.

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= Website Reliability, Copyright, and Plagiarism = Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Agenda: 2. Ideas to teach website reliability and Hoax Sites 3. Exploration & Break || 1. Plagiarism 2. Copyright 3. Citing Sources 4. Exploration ||
 * = Information Literacy- Evaluating (First Hour) ||= Information Literacy- Use of Information (Second Hour) ||
 * 1. Kathy Shrocks Evaluation

Resources:

Information Literacy- Evaluating
[|Kathy Schrock's Guide to Resources for Web Site evaluation] Eight-point evaluation checklist from UC Berkley: · What can the URL tell you? · Who wrote the page? Is he, she, or the authoring institution a qualified authority? · Is it dated? Current, timely? · Is information cited authentic? · Does the page have overall integrity and reliability as a source? · What's the bias? · Could the page or site be ironic, like a satire or a spoof? · If you have questions or reservations, how can you satisfy them? [|UC Berkley] [|ABC's of Web Literacy]

Ideas to Teach Website Validation [|Five Criteria for Evaluating Websites] (Cornell University) [|Information Literacy Activities] (Alan November)

Truncating a URL: [] Finding sites linked to your site In the search box type: link:site URL (example: link: [|http://www.cysd.k12.pa.us] ). The results will be other sites that are linked to their site. Here are some good sites for demo: link: [|http://www.911sharethetruth.com/] (somewhat controversial) link: [|http://martinlutherking.org/] (controversial) Using the Wayback Machine This website enables you to view all previous versions of a site. Students can see how things on the site have evolved. 1. Go to [|Wayback Machine]. 2. Type (or copy in) the URL of the site you are checking. 3. Click the Take Me Back button. You will then see links to previous versions of that site. [|What is the website history?] (Alan November) Using easywhois [|Easywhois] is a website that lets you find the person and/or company that has registered a specific domain name. [|Finding the website publisher.] (Alan November)

Hoax Sites
(Some sites listed on these pages maybe be blocked to students and/or teachers. Please check them before using in class.) [|Comprehensive List] [|Museum of Hoaxes] - the websites [|Google Ranking of Hoax Sites] [|Article on types of Hoax Sites] (older article but the information is still valid) [|All About Explorers] [|Bogus Sites] [|Website Investigator]

Image Hoaxes
[|Image- Hoax or Real- A quiz]

[|Hoax Photo Database] [|Photoshop Takes Fake to a Whole New Level] [|Photo Tampering Through History]

= Information Literacy- Use of Information =

Plagiarism
[|What is Plagiarism?] [|Plagiarism.org] [|Google Doc Templates for Citations] [|Citation Maker] Information: · [|Plagiarism.org] - this site has lots of information, examples, etc. From it, students can check their work on [|Write Check] (fee attached). · [|Avoiding Plagiarism] - OWL at Purdue Plagiarism Detectors: · [|Plagiarism Detect] (free) · [|Plagiarism Checker] (free) The Rules: [|Cyberbee.] This is a site to get students started in their understanding of copyright. (K-8) [|Media Education]. This is from the Media Lab at Temple University. It has information and lesson plans for all grade levels. [|Learning Resources.] [|Copyright in the Classroom] [|Stanford University - Copyright and Fair Use] [|A Great Video to Introduce Copyright and Fair Use] [|Creative Commons] [|Creative Commons Video] (youtube video) [|How to Use Creative Commons - Cut the Crap, part 1] [|Teaching Copyright]

Nice Collection of Resources
[|Springfield Township High School Library] [|Wikimedia Commons] [|Creative Commons Search] [|Royalty Free Sites] [|Creative Thinking] - collection of lesson plans and videos. [|World Images] [|World Digital Library] [|New York Public Library] [|Quizlet] - make flashcards w/pictures

Sites with Copyright Free Images
[|Open Photo] [|Wikimedia Commons] [|Free PhotoBank] (Creative Commons License) [|Flickr] Creative Commons (Creative Commons License) [|FlickrCC] [|History Images] Digital Media Wikispace [|Library of Congress] (not all are copyright free) [|National Archives] [|Photos 8] [|Using Google to Search for Creative Commons Images]

Activities with Images
[|Name That Candy Bar] [|PicLits] · Use images as writing prompts. · Have students tell the story of a picture, having to justify what they are telling. · Given a set of images, have students sequence them. · Use Skitch (mac only) program to "draw" on images. [|Pixolu] very interesting picture search site [|Automotivator] - make your own motivational posters [|Shahi] - Visual dictionary - lots of activities [|Sugar Stacks] - Shows various food sources, with sugar cubes indicating how much sugar is in them. [|Great Quotes about Learning and Change] Give students 3-7 photos. Ask them to put them in some order and write a story about the pictures. Have students use images to explain a particular event or time period. Use the Teacher Center of Discovery Streaming to set up some images that can serve as a wide variety of writing prompts. Students can then do their work online. Give students cameras! [|Tell a story in 5 frames]

Google Docs
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Blogging
[|21classes.com] [|Class Chatter] [|Edublogs] Blogs for Kids to Subscribe & Read Blogs for Teachers to Subcribe & Read [|100 Best Blogs for Tech Savvy Teachers] [|Blogs.pdf] List of Blogs by Subject Area [|Check Out Class Blogs]

Wikis
Educational Wikis [|Ten Best Practices] Example- Primary Example-Secondary

Wikispaces. Want to create a classroom wiki? [|Wikispaces is offering teachers free sites]. You can make your site totally open to the world, have it open but setup for only your students to edit it, or make it private. Wikispaces will set up student accounts so no email is needed, although the students can certainly have set up their own accounts if they have an email address. If you create a wikispace and forget to make it ad-free for education, follow these steps 1) Go to your space 2) Click "Manage Space" 3) Click "Subscription" 4) At the bottom of the page, under "Request a complimentary upgrade to Plus for K-12 education" click "Request yours now" Check out this site for some cool ideas!

What is Podcasting?
A podcast is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers.The term podcasting came from the words "iPod" and "broadcast". Podcasts can be automatically transferred to a mobile device after they are downloaded. A podcast is different from other digital media formats by its ability to be subscribed to and downloaded automatically when new content is added. (definition provided by Wikipedia) [|Podcasting Explanation] Podcast Examples [|Educational Podcast Network] [|Willow Web] [|Mrs. Myers' Class Podcasts] [|Governor's Institute- Orchestra] [|Germantown Academy] [|Reading Strategies - Mr. Headings] [|Class Podcasts - Mrs. Peckman] [|Book Talks - Mrs. DePorter] Copyright Free Pictures [|Pics4Learning] [|Wiki Commons] [|United Streaming] Copyright Free Sounds [|Sound Snap] [|Free Play Music] [|Music]

Social Networking
[] [|Keystone Commons] is a social network for PA educators and students. [|EDMODO] is another free private social network for education. [|Kidblog] offers safe and simple blogs for students and classrooms.

RSS Feeds
[|Google Reader] RSS For Kids

Digital Citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students: a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity. c. demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning. d. exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.

[|ISTE Digital Citizenship] Definition

= Books of the 21 Century = Thursday, July 14, 2011 Agenda: 2. Kindles/eReaders 3. Graphic Novels || 1. Exploration of anything from this week 2. Questions ||
 * 21st Century Books (First Hour) || Review/Clarification (Second Hour) ||
 * 1. ebooks

Resources:

Ebooks
[|Follett]

Kindles Vs. Nooks
[|Comparison Chart] [|Comparison Video] [|In the end]

Graphic Novels
[|Reaching Reluctant Readers] [|What are they? And why should we have them?]