21st Century Skills - Information Literacy Part 2 - Beans and Noodles
This is the second of a three part series of podcasts about Information Literacy hosted by members of the XStream Team. The first part, hosted by Bryant Pless, is titled 21st Century Skills - Information Literacy: Opening a can... of Beans?! and explains the confusion that results in sending students to the Internet to randomly search for a topic of research. This section, hosted by Joanne Finnegan, explains some search strategies to help students refine their search. The third part will be hosted by Maria Germano.
The following websites are referenced in this podcast:
Google: www.google.com
Kartoo: http://www.kartoo.com/
Clusty: http://clusty.com/
Infopeople: Best Search Tools Chart http://infopeople.org/search/chart.html
Noodle Tools: http://www.noodletools.com/
Choosing the Best Search for Your Information Need: http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
Noodle Quest: http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest/
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| XStreamTeamPart2.mp3 | 3.61 MB |
Good Tips for Searching
Just listening to Part 2 of the series. Very good example for how to refine search queries in Google and provides tips for using other search engines as well. Nice job!
Sandy Lathem
University of Vermont
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