Examples:    Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayer?
                     Stimulus package?
                     Remodeling your kitchen?
                     A certain country?  Historical period?  Charity?

2.  Identify types of information you need
(Chart with Webspiration)

3A. Determine Possible Resources:  20th vs 21st C Information Resources
•  Traditional sources of information - pros and cons
•  New age sources of information - pros and cons
                            
3B.  Accessing and Tracking the information
  4.   Engaging and Extracting relevant, reliable information
5A.  Organizing from multiple sources
•  Search engines and advanced search techniques:  Google Adv Search
•  Evaluating information on the Internet:  November Learning Info Literacy
•  Blogs, news aggregators and RSS feeds: Reader
•  Podcasts and iTunes subscriptions
•  Wikipedia and YouTube (KeepVid.com)
•  Texting for information - Get out those cell phones!
•  Image searching:  Cool Iris, Creative Commons, Google Images

More practice time with your topic!

21st CENTURY INFORMATION SHARING SKILLS
5B.  Present the information
  6.   Evaluate the product / process
• Class blog - posting and response
•  Google Docs for team collaboration / organization
• Create a book about your topic - BookR
• Brief digital story with images and audio - MyFamily.com

REFLECTIONS
How does it feel to seek information in a more digitally mediated way?  Which of these tools will be "keepers" for you?

HOMEWORK
Define 3 real problem questions for students based on some aspect of your curriculum.  Your work tomorrow will revolve around instructional practices.

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