Research Resources
Research requires information literacy, which is the ability to locate and use information. You must develop these skills to:
1. Determine when a need for information exists.
2. Locate information.
3. Use the information (read, view).
4. Analyze and synthesize the information.
5. Create a product.
6. Evaluate.
Depending on your stage in the research process, you will require different resources. Click the stage above for resources.
Once you determine your need for information, you must locate quality information. You have many options for doing this, including:
Media Center resources - visit the Online Catalog
Search Engines (not as reliable as databases, but better than the basic search engine):
Locate Information:
Planning:
Use a variety of graphic organizers, diagrams, and thinking maps to brainstorm and organize your notes, thoughts and ideas from Webspirationor Mindmeister.
Organize and centralize your activities in one place and access them from any computer with your own website using iGoogle or My Yahoo.
Bookmark your favorite websites and share them with your friends with Del.icio.us, Diigo, or Digg.
Product Ideas:
Video Presentation:
iMovie (mac)
MovieMaker (pc)
Wiki:
PBWorks or Wikispaces share your research with classmates and friends. You can also use a wiki to share information with your group for group projects.
Website:
Create a website to display your information with Googlesites, Edublog or Wordpress.
Citing Your Sources:
Don't forget to give credit to your sources throughout and at the end of your presentation.
Tools for help with citing:
Check out Mrs. Dovre's MLA Prezi
MLA Handout- Handout created by Ankeny HS specialists.
EasyBib - interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.
Duke - Citing Sources - Assembling a list of works cited in your paper.
Oregon SLIS - Citation Maker - You must allow OSLIS pop-ups on your browser.
Center for Writing Studies - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Great Grammar tips also!
MLA Formatting with The Owl at Purdue University - A favorite for citing!
Help with citing Images/Videos:
1. Create an entry in the Works Cited page. Use www.easybib.com for help with this.
2. Give credit to these sources by in your Project: include near the image, the first item that appears in the Works Cited entry that corresponds with the image citation. This might be author name, article name, website name, film name, etc.
Create a Product: