Reference Desk
The Very Best place to start is at MMS Media Center
Get Your questions answered!
Copyright
When Citing Sources
use Citation Maker
Remember these tips:
Text: 10% or 1000 words
Poems: 250 words
5 poems from anthology
3 poems per poet
Video: 10% or 3 mins
Illustrations: 5 per artist or photography
Music: 10% or 30 secs.
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1. Task Definition
Define the problem.
Identify the Information needed.
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2.Information Seeking Strategies
Determine and Evaluate Resources. Brainstorm all possible sources. Select the best sources for the assignment.
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3.Location and Access
Locate sources. Find Information within sources.
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4.Use of Information
Examine information and Extract Information.
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5.Synthesis:
Organize and Present Information
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6.Evaluation
Judge the results and the process
Dewey Decimal System
Call Numbers
Call numbers are located on the spine of the book
000-099: General Works
100-199: Philosophy & Psychology
200-299: Religion
300-399: Social Sciences
400-499: Language
500-599: Science
600-699: Technology
700-799: Arts & Recreation
800-899: Literature
900-999: History & Geography
THE FIVE W’S OF
WEB SITE EVALUATION
WHO
Who wrote the pages and are they an expert? Is a biography of the author included? How can I find out more about the author?
WHAT
What does the author say is the purpose of the site? What else might the author have in mind for the site? What makes the site easy to use? What information is included and does this information differ from other sites?
WHEN
When was the site created? When was the site last updated?
WHERE
Where does the information come from? Where can I look to find out more about the sponsor of the site?
WHY
Why is this information useful for my purpose? Why should I use this information? Why is this page better than another?
Handout by Kathy Schrock
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What if YOU want to pool your results from more than one search engine? Like...Yahoo, AskJeeves or Bing? That's where these 15 metasearch engines come in.
Beaucoup- 2,000+ Search Engines, Indices and Directories
Brain Boost- this is an answer engine rather than a search engine. What that means is that "Brainboost actually finds answers to your questions posed in plain English as opposed to directing you to pages that simply mention the questions.”
Dogpile- search Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, images, white and yellow pages.
iTools- search the following all at once: Bing, Blekko, DuckDuckGo, AskJeeves, Google Blog Search, Google Scholar, About.com Topics, Yahoo!, Open Directory, Wolfram Alpha PLUS people searches, Twitter searches, biographies and lots more!
Ixquick- they say they are the "world's most private search engine"
KartOO- KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm.
Mamma- "the mother of all search engines".
Metacrawler- search Google, Yahoo!, MSN and Ask all at once
Meta Search Engine- search over 25, including Kayak, Hulu, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter
Pandia- searches Google, Yahoo!, AlltheWeb, Ask.com, Wisenut and more
qksearch- "world's only 3-in-1 search engine": clustering, blended or split search
Turboscout- "access all search engines without retyping"
Webscout- find the net's best websites
Some great Research Tools for both Teachers and Students.
