Module_Three

Module Three: Locating, Evaluating, and Synthesizing Information ==**Performing Internet searches ** ==

**Search Engines:**
There are MANY web search engines available, as well as meta-search engines. See a list of search engines at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines. The InfoPeople website has a helpful chart comparing various search engines.

**Meta-search Engines**
Metasearch engines search across several search engines, eliminate duplicate results, and return a list of results organized by search engine or relevance. Not all meta-search engines are the same; results will differ because not all meta-search engines search across the same web search engines.
 * **InfoSpace.com**: @http://www.infospace.com InfoSpace also owns Dogpile, WebCrawler, and MetaCrawler.
 * **Dogpile: @http://www.dogpile.com** "Dogpile aggregates the most relevant searches from Google, Yahoo! and Bing and delivers them to you in a convenient search package. With Dogpile, you get the best from the big dogs without all the mess.**"**
 * **WebCrawler: "**WebCrawler® brings users the top search results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing and other popular search engines. WebCrawler also provides multimedia results, including images, video, news, and local information. WebCrawler is a registered trademark of InfoSpace, Inc.**"**
 * **MetaCrawler:** "MetaCrawler’s metasearch technology combines the top ranking search results from each of the separate search engines based on your specific query. The blend of sponsored and non-sponsored results for a given search term depends on the nature of the term, but sponsored results are always clearly identified with a "Sponsored" or similar designation**."**
 * **Mama, Mother of all Search Engines** @http://www.mamma.com/
 * **Yippy:** http://search.yippy.com/ "Yippy is a meta-search engine: it queries multiple search engines and combines the results to be displayed as a group, or cloud, on one screen. Yippy retrieves results from Ask, Open Directory, Gigablast and others. To see which search engines returned results for your query, click on the “Details” link at the top of the search results list.**"**

== **Evaluating Websites for Accuracy, Authority, Currency, Objectivity, & Coverage** ==

> (Accuracy, Authority, Currency, Objectivity, and Coverage)
 * Evaluating Sources of Information from Purdue University's OWL, including information on evaluating bibliographic citations, aspects of evaluation, reading evaluation, print vs. Internet sources, and evaluating internet sources.
 * Assignment for evaluating online information: Conducting Credible Research
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Kolowich, Steve. "Calibrating Students' B.S. Meters." __Inside Higher Ed__. 15 Apr. 2011 http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/news/2011/04/15/librarians_try_to_improve_student_research_habits_by_teaching_visual_literacy This article discusses teaching students to think and read critically as they formulate research questions.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**Is Wikipedia a bad word?**

 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Some instructors are finding interesting ways to use Wikipedia in the classroom. Read the //Inside Higher Ed// article "When Wikipedia is the Assignment."
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read the 7 Things About Wikipedia document from Educause for an analysis of Wikipedia from an educational perspective.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Watch Jimmy Wale's talk on FORAtv.org. He is the founder, board member and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation that operates the Wikipedia project, and several other wiki projects, including Wiktionary and Wikinews. He speaks about the vision of a social community coming together to collaboratively build a free encyclopedia of knowledge. He emphasizes that Wikipedia is a social phenomenon and explains how the community works together not only to write but to monitor and edit information to insure accuracy. The presentation is about 30 minutes, but it well worth your time!

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**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Using Library Databases ** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**EBSCO Host Databases**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">EBSCO redesigned their Host portal several years ago and added MANY great features that make searching easier and more effective.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Students create a personal folder within EBSCO that allows them to save articles and images indefinitely. Personal folders are accessible regardless of the institution's login they use (public library, school library, university, etc.) Download the following EBSCO help document on personal folders:




 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Sharing EBSCO Articles
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Connie invites you to share my Wikipedia folder.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">To view this folder, login to EBSCO//host and then your Personal Folder; click **Add** button next to your **Shared** by folder.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Enter or copy & paste **passcode**: 45198e81-9fde-459d-8c14-d65e3b074e2e
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Hit **Submit** button to accept the invitation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The folder will be filed under my //MyEBSCOhost's// username, schoolmarm, under your Shared by folder section.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">EBSCO Host Web Pages are another way to share articles with others.

==<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Practicing Scholarly Integrity ** == > <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">I read The Berenstain Bears and the Truth to my students each year as we began our research study. It seemed like an appropriate way to get the idea across to them that researchers are valued only as much as they can be trusted to use only the most relevant and trustworthy information in ways that show respect to the authors of those ideas.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Summarizing, paraphrasing, using direct quotes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Citing Sources: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teach the process the "low tech" way with resources, handouts, etc. and then teach them to use the technology.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">EBSCO Host cite feature opens window with the citation for the selected article in ALL the citation formats. Students simply highlight, copy, and paste the citation into their working bibliography.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">KnightCite citation machine makes it easy for students to understand the difference between online sources and print sources.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Citation Machine (now Son of Citation Machine) was the first online citation creator, designed by David Warlick, author of //Redefining Literacy in the 21st Century//.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">BibMe and Noodle tools allow students to create online citations and save them on the web.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**One Search in Follett's Destiny**
<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> When students perform a search in their school's Destiny program, the first results are for print materials in their school library. Selecting the One Search Tab displays search results for websites and databases (both free and subscription) that the librarian has selected. Find more information on setting up One Search on the ESC 15 Library Wiki @http://library.wiki.netxv.net/Destiny+Libraries.