A shocking number of young people can't separate fact from fiction online The Hechinger Report
The overwhelming majority of young people are unable to sift through online information and separate fact, fiction and opinion, according to a new study from Stanford University. Among the hair-raising findings: 93 percent of college students tested were unable to flag a lobbyist's website as a biased source of information. Younger students fared poorly, too. READ MORE
21st-Century Skills That Every Learner Needs Includes informational literacy and media literacy
Article: Media Literacy Classes Am To Home Student Truth Detectors
How Has Google Affected The Way Students Learn?
The End of ‘Just Google it’: Why Students Need to be Digitally Literate
Credible Sources 101: How to Evaluate Them + 60 Reliable Websites for Students
Why More Schools Are Not Teaching Web Literacy - and how can they start
The overwhelming majority of young people are unable to sift through online information and separate fact, fiction and opinion, according to a new study from Stanford University. Among the hair-raising findings: 93 percent of college students tested were unable to flag a lobbyist's website as a biased source of information. Younger students fared poorly, too. READ MORE
21st-Century Skills That Every Learner Needs Includes informational literacy and media literacy
Article: Media Literacy Classes Am To Home Student Truth Detectors
How Has Google Affected The Way Students Learn?
The End of ‘Just Google it’: Why Students Need to be Digitally Literate
Credible Sources 101: How to Evaluate Them + 60 Reliable Websites for Students
Why More Schools Are Not Teaching Web Literacy - and how can they start
What is Information Literacy?
- Tool literacy - The ability to use print and electronic resources including software.
- Resource literacy - The ability to understand the form, format, location and access methods of information resources.
- Social-structural literacy - Knowledge of how information is socially situated and produced. This component is especially significant with Web 2.0 social networking sites ranging from wikis and blogs to social bookmarking sites.
- Research literacy - The ability to understand and use information technology tools and searching strategies to carry out research.
- Publishing literacy - The ability to produce a text or multimedia report of the results of research.
The Networked Student Video
Benefits of Information Literacy
for Students
for Students
Conversations about finding the information should become an integral part of teaching and learning.
David Warick
David Warick
Searching Strategies
Didn't they learn all this in high school?
Didn't they learn all this in high school?
Trails-9.org for information literacy assessments
grades 3-12
Critical Reading Checklist- 13 Questions to Help Students Critically Read Media Texts
Credible Sources 101: How to Evaluate Them + 60 Reliable Websites for Students
grades 3-12
Critical Reading Checklist- 13 Questions to Help Students Critically Read Media Texts
Credible Sources 101: How to Evaluate Them + 60 Reliable Websites for Students
Video How to Use Wikipedia Wisely
Three Lessons in Using Context Clues in Online Research
Video Series for Evaluating Digital Information Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel helps students evaluate the accuracy of digital information in a 10-episode series on Navigating Digital Information. The curriculum was developed by the Stanford History Education Group. The 10 episodes are designed to help viewers learn how to interact with the internet the way professional fact-checkers do
Build Thinking Skills with Informational Text Projects, to explore new ways to creatively integrate informational text into your classroom curriculum for engaging, creative, and thoughtful student projects.
Three Lessons in Using Context Clues in Online Research
Video Series for Evaluating Digital Information Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel helps students evaluate the accuracy of digital information in a 10-episode series on Navigating Digital Information. The curriculum was developed by the Stanford History Education Group. The 10 episodes are designed to help viewers learn how to interact with the internet the way professional fact-checkers do
Build Thinking Skills with Informational Text Projects, to explore new ways to creatively integrate informational text into your classroom curriculum for engaging, creative, and thoughtful student projects.
What's in Common? - A Search Lesson21st Century Searching Kit TERRIFIC tools and kit for teaching Internet searching
Help Students Learn the Basics of Online Search. Teachers and parents can use this document to teach kids about the dynamics of search engines. More specifically, kids will get to learn what a search engine is, how search functions, how to conduct an online search using a search engine, and what types of media to expect in search results. This two-page document is particularly ideal for young learners who are still struggling with the notion of what a search engine is all about. It can also be used with tech savvy students to drive discussion about the importance of learning how to effectively use search engines.
Eight Tips To Google Like a Pro. The guidance will help you improve your search results and zero in on what you’re looking for more quickly. These advanced searching skills can also help you work your way back to the original source of specific claims, quotes, photos and videos — a critical step in fact-checking.
Civic Online Reasoning, Here’s how they describe themselves.: Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. We all are. The new Civic Online Reasoning (COR) curriculum, developed by the Stanford History Education Group, provides free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world
Web Literacy Quiz | Answer sheet
Media Literacy Resources
Stanford History Education Group’s Civic Online Reasoning assessments If we're going to operate as a democracy, our citizens need to be able to sort out accurate, reasonable, independently produced information from the biased and distorted stuff. The Stanford History Education Group has written assessment forms that could support teachers' instructional planning, as well as lesson plans that address key online reasoning skills. (gr. 6 - 12 )
In the Mix the Emmy Award winning PBS series for middle school through college, has several half hour programs that address Media Literacy. Free companion Discussion Guides with activities can be downloaded from their Facebook page here. These can be used to easily create a media literacy event or class presentation. You can follow the In the Mix page to get updates on future offers and free lesson plans.
CIVIX digital information literacy initiative supports teachers in empowering students with the knowledge and skills required to locate trustworthy information so students can make informed choices in the best interests of themselves and their communities. The CIVIX CTRL-F verification skills module helps students learn contemporary digital information literacy skills built for the modern web.
Checkology free version offers four interactive modules for students to complete. Each of the modules is comprised of between twenty and forty-seven instructional video clips and interactive comprehension checks. The four modules are titled Info Zones, Democracy's Watchdog, Practicing Quality Journalism, and Misinformation. The contents of the modules gets progressively more difficult as each section is completed. www.freetech4teachers.com
Glean digital literacy teaching tools.
Education Resources For Web Literacy
Guest Post: A List Of Useful Resources On Teaching Information & Digital Literacy
How to Teach Students to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information is from Edudemic
Education Resources For Web Literacy from November Learning.
A List Of Useful Resources On Teaching Information & Digital Literacy
Scientific and Information Literacy Developed Through Gameplay
Vital Signs is a story-based literacy game from Classroom, Inc. that has students take on the role of a medical director at a family clinic. Students contend with the daily challenges of a doctor: seeing patients, staying on top of community issues, and running an office. Along the way, students need to consult their to-do list with tasks to complete, including talking with staff to gather information, conducting research on medical conditions, interacting with the public, and making difficult decisions. The game has 12 episodes, each of which takes about 20 to 30 minutes to play through. Each episode empowers students to take on a realistic job role and act on their decisions while also dealing with the consequences. The first episode deals with environmental factors that could be causing breathing difficulties for people in the town. To help them along, students can check their cellphone, which has a to-do list, patient files, a medical handbook, and a glossary. Students build literacy skills all along, and an assessment at the end puts these skills to the test. Students must use their text analysis and research skills, as well as deductive reasoning, to solve problems and make decisions; they draft correspondences, such as letters, emails, handouts, memos, reports, summaries, and explanations of their medical decisions. Some assessments are instantly scored, while others are open ended and sent to the teacher dashboard for review.
Skills and Strategies | Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources is from The New York Times Learning Network.
Stanford History Education Group’s Civic Online Reasoning assessments If we're going to operate as a democracy, our citizens need to be able to sort out accurate, reasonable, independently produced information from the biased and distorted stuff. The Stanford History Education Group has written assessment forms that could support teachers' instructional planning, as well as lesson plans that address key online reasoning skills. (gr. 6 - 12 )
Fact-Checking Tips and Tools for Teachers and Students Stand up to falsehood on the web with tips, resources, and practical advice on helping students find credible information online.
TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “How to spot a misleading graph”
21st Century Information Fluency Project The Wizard Tools are valuable for keywords and citations. The tutorial section has a wide variety of specific searching tutorials See how to find and save discontinued sites. The Search Challenge gives students the opportunity to use their searching skills. The Resources have lessons and detailed advanced strategies.
10 Steps For Pre-Search Strategies… Digital Literacy Series Part 1
15 Tools for Pre-Search Strategies Part 2
Choose The Best Search Engine for the Information You Need Chart
Help Students Learn the Basics of Online Search. Teachers and parents can use this document to teach kids about the dynamics of search engines. More specifically, kids will get to learn what a search engine is, how search functions, how to conduct an online search using a search engine, and what types of media to expect in search results. This two-page document is particularly ideal for young learners who are still struggling with the notion of what a search engine is all about. It can also be used with tech savvy students to drive discussion about the importance of learning how to effectively use search engines.
Eight Tips To Google Like a Pro. The guidance will help you improve your search results and zero in on what you’re looking for more quickly. These advanced searching skills can also help you work your way back to the original source of specific claims, quotes, photos and videos — a critical step in fact-checking.
Civic Online Reasoning, Here’s how they describe themselves.: Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. We all are. The new Civic Online Reasoning (COR) curriculum, developed by the Stanford History Education Group, provides free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world
Web Literacy Quiz | Answer sheet
- Fake Websites to have students validate
- Check External Links A quick look at who has linked to a site might help you gain perspective about the quality of its information.
- Formulating an Informational Search Strategy
The first step in helping students formulate an informational search strategy is to have them specifically identify what it is that they want to know and why they want to know it (no, “because Mr. Byrne said I had to write about it” is not an acceptable answer). Much like forming a thesis statement, forming a good search query should take some thought and revision. And like a thesis, there may be multiple revisions and changes in direction until the process is completed. - When a student says he is searching for “more information about the Civil War” ask him to identify what about the Civil War he wants to know more about. If replies with, “anything” then ask him to specifically identify what he already knows and to conduct a search for more information about one of those things he has specifically identified. This is where the list strategy becomes a valuable part of the search process.
Media Literacy Resources
- Elementary Resources This list of resources design specifically for K-5 educators, librarians, and community practitioners provides a sampling of past events that have been created by previous MLW participants as well as a list of age-appropriate media literacy resources from leading educational organizations like Common Sense, PBS Learning Media, and Scholastic.
- Middle School Resources This list of resources design specifically for educators, librarians, and community practitioners serving grades 6-8 provides a sampling of past events and activities that have been held by previous MLW participants as well as a list of age-appropriate media literacy resources from leading educational organizations like PBS Learning Media, KQED, and NewseumED.
- High School Resources This list of resources design specifically for high school educators, librarians, and community practitioners provides a sampling of past events that have been created by previous MLW participants as well as a list of age-appropriate media literacy resources from leading educational organizations like NewseumED, PBS Learning Media, and Project Look Sharp.
- Higher Ed Resources This list of resources, design specifically for educators, librarians, and community practitioners in the higher education setting, provides a sampling of past events that have been created by previous MLW participants as well as a list of age-appropriate media literacy resources from leading educational organizations like NAMLE, Media Smarts, and Project Look Sharp.
- Article: Media Literacy Classes Am To Home Student Truth Detectors
Stanford History Education Group’s Civic Online Reasoning assessments If we're going to operate as a democracy, our citizens need to be able to sort out accurate, reasonable, independently produced information from the biased and distorted stuff. The Stanford History Education Group has written assessment forms that could support teachers' instructional planning, as well as lesson plans that address key online reasoning skills. (gr. 6 - 12 )
In the Mix the Emmy Award winning PBS series for middle school through college, has several half hour programs that address Media Literacy. Free companion Discussion Guides with activities can be downloaded from their Facebook page here. These can be used to easily create a media literacy event or class presentation. You can follow the In the Mix page to get updates on future offers and free lesson plans.
CIVIX digital information literacy initiative supports teachers in empowering students with the knowledge and skills required to locate trustworthy information so students can make informed choices in the best interests of themselves and their communities. The CIVIX CTRL-F verification skills module helps students learn contemporary digital information literacy skills built for the modern web.
Checkology free version offers four interactive modules for students to complete. Each of the modules is comprised of between twenty and forty-seven instructional video clips and interactive comprehension checks. The four modules are titled Info Zones, Democracy's Watchdog, Practicing Quality Journalism, and Misinformation. The contents of the modules gets progressively more difficult as each section is completed. www.freetech4teachers.com
- “InfoZones” is a key foundational lesson of our Checkology® virtual classroom. It categorizes information based on its purpose so you can better understand what you’re seeing:
Glean digital literacy teaching tools.
Education Resources For Web Literacy
Guest Post: A List Of Useful Resources On Teaching Information & Digital Literacy
How to Teach Students to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information is from Edudemic
Education Resources For Web Literacy from November Learning.
A List Of Useful Resources On Teaching Information & Digital Literacy
Scientific and Information Literacy Developed Through Gameplay
Vital Signs is a story-based literacy game from Classroom, Inc. that has students take on the role of a medical director at a family clinic. Students contend with the daily challenges of a doctor: seeing patients, staying on top of community issues, and running an office. Along the way, students need to consult their to-do list with tasks to complete, including talking with staff to gather information, conducting research on medical conditions, interacting with the public, and making difficult decisions. The game has 12 episodes, each of which takes about 20 to 30 minutes to play through. Each episode empowers students to take on a realistic job role and act on their decisions while also dealing with the consequences. The first episode deals with environmental factors that could be causing breathing difficulties for people in the town. To help them along, students can check their cellphone, which has a to-do list, patient files, a medical handbook, and a glossary. Students build literacy skills all along, and an assessment at the end puts these skills to the test. Students must use their text analysis and research skills, as well as deductive reasoning, to solve problems and make decisions; they draft correspondences, such as letters, emails, handouts, memos, reports, summaries, and explanations of their medical decisions. Some assessments are instantly scored, while others are open ended and sent to the teacher dashboard for review.
Skills and Strategies | Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources is from The New York Times Learning Network.
Stanford History Education Group’s Civic Online Reasoning assessments If we're going to operate as a democracy, our citizens need to be able to sort out accurate, reasonable, independently produced information from the biased and distorted stuff. The Stanford History Education Group has written assessment forms that could support teachers' instructional planning, as well as lesson plans that address key online reasoning skills. (gr. 6 - 12 )
Fact-Checking Tips and Tools for Teachers and Students Stand up to falsehood on the web with tips, resources, and practical advice on helping students find credible information online.
TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “How to spot a misleading graph”
21st Century Information Fluency Project The Wizard Tools are valuable for keywords and citations. The tutorial section has a wide variety of specific searching tutorials See how to find and save discontinued sites. The Search Challenge gives students the opportunity to use their searching skills. The Resources have lessons and detailed advanced strategies.
10 Steps For Pre-Search Strategies… Digital Literacy Series Part 1
15 Tools for Pre-Search Strategies Part 2
Choose The Best Search Engine for the Information You Need Chart
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Information Literacy Plethora of resources that are well vetted.
Questioning Information
Questioning Information
- The 5 W's of Website Evaluations - One-page guide by Kathy Schrock puts website evaluation into a nutshell.
- Evaluating Web Page: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask- UC Berkeley's guide is very to apply to any website you are evaluating.
- Evaluating Information Checklist
A Handy Search Tip Students Should Know About
Here is a basic but very important search tip. Using this search hack, students will be able to quickly find anything on a document, email or a webpage. This search tip involves the use of two keyboard buttons to bring up a small search box that will allow you to look for anything on the page you are on. Simply enter the word or phrase you want to look for and hit "enter". All the instances of that word will be highlighted in yellow. The combination for Mac users is "Command" + "F", and for Windows users "Control"+ "F". The search box may appear at the bottom of the screen.
Here is a basic but very important search tip. Using this search hack, students will be able to quickly find anything on a document, email or a webpage. This search tip involves the use of two keyboard buttons to bring up a small search box that will allow you to look for anything on the page you are on. Simply enter the word or phrase you want to look for and hit "enter". All the instances of that word will be highlighted in yellow. The combination for Mac users is "Command" + "F", and for Windows users "Control"+ "F". The search box may appear at the bottom of the screen.
This search hack has several uses : You can use it to look for key words in an article, search for a specific term within page, look for the name of an author or character in a passage , and pretty much anything else you want to look for in a web page. Students can also use this hack when conducting a query in a search engine. They can click on search results and do a quick search to see whether the page has the search phrases they are looking for. Pretty basic but time-saving.
Rutger's Riot This is an animated tutorial that walks students through the process of doing research. It provides explanations and tips on how to select a topic, find sources, choose keywords, identify citations, and evaluate sources.
Here Is A Good Tool to Help Students Discover Similar Websites
Similar Sites is a a web tool and Chrome extension that you and your students can use to find online resources similar to the one you are presently browsing. With a single click Similar Sites provides you with a list of websites that feature identical content to the site you are navigating. Students can use it a s a research tool to source topic-based or niche-specific materials and digital references. It can also be used as a springboard to further explore content written on a specific topic and to 'grow your reading list'. Whether you use the web-based tool or the Chrome extension,
Connected Papers is a new tool that basically creates visual “webs” of cited sources in academic papers.
Zotero - https://www.zotero.org/ - is a free tool designed to help users efficiently collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. It simplifies managing bibliographic data and related research materials (like PDFs), supports direct integration with word processors for citation, and facilitates collaboration through shared libraries. Zotero is available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS, promoting research organization and productivity across platforms.
Typeset is a website for research students and academics. It is an auto-formatting software that helps researchers convert their manuscripts into the journal format of their choice. Typeset currently hosts over 30,000 journal formats, which includes top journals from top publishers, like IEEE, Wiley and others. This helps them save formatting time and ensure 100% compliance to journal guidelines. If you're currently working on a manuscript / research paper.
7 Step to Do Academic Research Using Digital Technologies Research is a process. It is a continuum of stages that together make up a research plan. Below is a tentative sketch of what we think are the seven important steps of a research plan. For each of these stages we featured a short collection of web tools to help you carry it out. We have also created a poster capturing the steps and tools we covered here. You can download, share and use the poster the way you want as long as you use it for educational purposes.
Iris.ia lets you paste the url address of any academic paper or TED Talk and then, in return, it provides you with a free interactive mosaic of related research papers.
Introduce New Ways of Searching for Information Dr. Daniel Russell, a search anthropologist who works at Google and studies the way people search and research, writes in his personal blog, SearchReSearch, about searching, building search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively and learning how to do research. The blog also covers a good deal of sense making and information foraging. Every week Dr. Russell posts achallenge question designed to introduce students to new ways of searching for information. He also provides a detailed explanation of the solution and encourages others to comment on their approach to answering the challenge.
Click Here to Visit Search Blog
Social Media. If you’re not sure how to do that you must check out the New York City’s Social Media Guidelines at schools.nyc.gov/socialmedia. There you’ll find infographics, an activity book as well as parent and teacher guides.
Search ReSearch blog Interesting search challenges designed to help readers become better web researchers. His forthcoming book, The Joy of Search, is sure to be excellent too. If you're not familiar with Dan's work or you are and you want to learn more search techniques, check out this video that he posted on his YouTube channel. www.freetech4teachers.com
Google Search Strategies Guide
30 Google search tips and tricks, including Google Scholar search and image search tips: https://studycorgi.com/blog/google-search-tips-tricks-for-students/ | Video - Google Scholar Features You Should Know How to Use www.freetech4teachers.com
Google Search Modifiers Poster (link opens a PDF) could be a great resource to print and hang in your classroom or library. www.freetech4teachers.com
8 Advanced Google Search tips chart
Video that explains how Google Search works
Google's buried treasure: 20 hidden tricks and tools
Lesson on Becoming an Internet Detective Using Google The questions and activities in a lesson from The New York Times Learning Network help students understand why and how to do better Google searches but also weave in ways to apply the information and practice on their own.
How to refine searches with domain filters in Google Advanced Search For example, .edu, .gov., .k12 . www.freetech4teachers.com
Handy infographic featuring 12 important tips to help you refine your Google searches and get precise search results.
Google Inside Search These are free self-paced courses to help you develop and improve your Google search skills. You will get to learn ‘tips and tricks to become a fast and effective fact-finder with Power Searching with Google, deepen your understanding of solving complex research problems using advanced Google search techniques with Advanced Power Searching with Google, and join a growing global community of Power Searchers.
Developing Critical Thinking through Web Research Skills eBook
10 Google Search Tips All Students Can Use. Also companion infographic here
How to Find Google Docs Published by Others
Reverse Image SearchYou may know about Google’s Reverse Image Search. To access it, you can go to Google Images, then click on the camera icon to bring up a screen like the one below. Then, upload the image you want to find on the web. This is a great way to find images students (or staff) have saved off the internet but failed to cite properly.Another tool you may be unfamiliar with is the TinEye Reverse Image Search. Sporting a fancy robot icon, TinEye assists you in a similar way that Google’s Reverse Image Search does. It also offers a browser add-on for Chrome/Chromium or Firefox browsers.
Video: How to Search Google Basics
15 Must Have Google Lessons Plans to Teach Students Effective Search Skills
Infographic Featuring 30+ Practical Google Search Tips
Helpful Google Search Modifiers Poster
Vaughn Memorial Library at Acadia University hosts a series of four free animated tutorials designed to teach students lessons on web research strategies. The four tutorials are Credible Sources Count, Research It Right, Searching With Success, and You Quote It, You Note It. In Credible Sources Count students learn how to recognize the validity of information on the Internet. It's a good tutorial except for a strong emphasis on using domain names for determining validity. Research It Right walks students through the process of forming a research question through the actual research steps. Searching With Success shows students how search engines function. The tutorial gives clear examples and directions for altering search terms. You Quote It, You Note It shows students what plagiarism is and how to avoid accidentally plagiarizing someone's work.
The Kentucky Virtual Library hosts an interactive map of the research process for students. The map, titled How To Do Research, walks students through the research process from start to finish with every step along the way. One of the things about this map that school librarians will like is that it is not focused solely on web research. How To Do Research includes a good section about using library catalogs, books, and magazines.
Web Search Strategies in Plain English A good resource that can help students understand web search strategies is Common Craft's
Here Is A Good Tool to Help Students Discover Similar Websites
Similar Sites is a a web tool and Chrome extension that you and your students can use to find online resources similar to the one you are presently browsing. With a single click Similar Sites provides you with a list of websites that feature identical content to the site you are navigating. Students can use it a s a research tool to source topic-based or niche-specific materials and digital references. It can also be used as a springboard to further explore content written on a specific topic and to 'grow your reading list'. Whether you use the web-based tool or the Chrome extension,
Connected Papers is a new tool that basically creates visual “webs” of cited sources in academic papers.
Zotero - https://www.zotero.org/ - is a free tool designed to help users efficiently collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. It simplifies managing bibliographic data and related research materials (like PDFs), supports direct integration with word processors for citation, and facilitates collaboration through shared libraries. Zotero is available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS, promoting research organization and productivity across platforms.
Typeset is a website for research students and academics. It is an auto-formatting software that helps researchers convert their manuscripts into the journal format of their choice. Typeset currently hosts over 30,000 journal formats, which includes top journals from top publishers, like IEEE, Wiley and others. This helps them save formatting time and ensure 100% compliance to journal guidelines. If you're currently working on a manuscript / research paper.
7 Step to Do Academic Research Using Digital Technologies Research is a process. It is a continuum of stages that together make up a research plan. Below is a tentative sketch of what we think are the seven important steps of a research plan. For each of these stages we featured a short collection of web tools to help you carry it out. We have also created a poster capturing the steps and tools we covered here. You can download, share and use the poster the way you want as long as you use it for educational purposes.
Iris.ia lets you paste the url address of any academic paper or TED Talk and then, in return, it provides you with a free interactive mosaic of related research papers.
Introduce New Ways of Searching for Information Dr. Daniel Russell, a search anthropologist who works at Google and studies the way people search and research, writes in his personal blog, SearchReSearch, about searching, building search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively and learning how to do research. The blog also covers a good deal of sense making and information foraging. Every week Dr. Russell posts achallenge question designed to introduce students to new ways of searching for information. He also provides a detailed explanation of the solution and encourages others to comment on their approach to answering the challenge.
Click Here to Visit Search Blog
Social Media. If you’re not sure how to do that you must check out the New York City’s Social Media Guidelines at schools.nyc.gov/socialmedia. There you’ll find infographics, an activity book as well as parent and teacher guides.
Search ReSearch blog Interesting search challenges designed to help readers become better web researchers. His forthcoming book, The Joy of Search, is sure to be excellent too. If you're not familiar with Dan's work or you are and you want to learn more search techniques, check out this video that he posted on his YouTube channel. www.freetech4teachers.com
Google Search Strategies Guide
30 Google search tips and tricks, including Google Scholar search and image search tips: https://studycorgi.com/blog/google-search-tips-tricks-for-students/ | Video - Google Scholar Features You Should Know How to Use www.freetech4teachers.com
Google Search Modifiers Poster (link opens a PDF) could be a great resource to print and hang in your classroom or library. www.freetech4teachers.com
8 Advanced Google Search tips chart
Video that explains how Google Search works
Google's buried treasure: 20 hidden tricks and tools
Lesson on Becoming an Internet Detective Using Google The questions and activities in a lesson from The New York Times Learning Network help students understand why and how to do better Google searches but also weave in ways to apply the information and practice on their own.
How to refine searches with domain filters in Google Advanced Search For example, .edu, .gov., .k12 . www.freetech4teachers.com
Handy infographic featuring 12 important tips to help you refine your Google searches and get precise search results.
Google Inside Search These are free self-paced courses to help you develop and improve your Google search skills. You will get to learn ‘tips and tricks to become a fast and effective fact-finder with Power Searching with Google, deepen your understanding of solving complex research problems using advanced Google search techniques with Advanced Power Searching with Google, and join a growing global community of Power Searchers.
Developing Critical Thinking through Web Research Skills eBook
10 Google Search Tips All Students Can Use. Also companion infographic here
How to Find Google Docs Published by Others
Reverse Image SearchYou may know about Google’s Reverse Image Search. To access it, you can go to Google Images, then click on the camera icon to bring up a screen like the one below. Then, upload the image you want to find on the web. This is a great way to find images students (or staff) have saved off the internet but failed to cite properly.Another tool you may be unfamiliar with is the TinEye Reverse Image Search. Sporting a fancy robot icon, TinEye assists you in a similar way that Google’s Reverse Image Search does. It also offers a browser add-on for Chrome/Chromium or Firefox browsers.
Video: How to Search Google Basics
15 Must Have Google Lessons Plans to Teach Students Effective Search Skills
Infographic Featuring 30+ Practical Google Search Tips
Helpful Google Search Modifiers Poster
Vaughn Memorial Library at Acadia University hosts a series of four free animated tutorials designed to teach students lessons on web research strategies. The four tutorials are Credible Sources Count, Research It Right, Searching With Success, and You Quote It, You Note It. In Credible Sources Count students learn how to recognize the validity of information on the Internet. It's a good tutorial except for a strong emphasis on using domain names for determining validity. Research It Right walks students through the process of forming a research question through the actual research steps. Searching With Success shows students how search engines function. The tutorial gives clear examples and directions for altering search terms. You Quote It, You Note It shows students what plagiarism is and how to avoid accidentally plagiarizing someone's work.
The Kentucky Virtual Library hosts an interactive map of the research process for students. The map, titled How To Do Research, walks students through the research process from start to finish with every step along the way. One of the things about this map that school librarians will like is that it is not focused solely on web research. How To Do Research includes a good section about using library catalogs, books, and magazines.
Web Search Strategies in Plain English A good resource that can help students understand web search strategies is Common Craft's
Choosing the Best Search for Your Needs
Search strategies based on an analysis of your topic. Directs you to the best search engines and sites for your specific topic. At NoodleQuest there is an interactive site to get you started on searching a topic.
Athenir. it is a search tool. When you enter a search term on Athenir you will get results from Yahoo along with a graphic of related search terms.
Internet Tutorials
Useful chart to identify the best search engines and directories for your needs. A good resource for specialty searches.
How to Create Your Own Search Engine It might sound complicated, but it’s not. In fact, it’s no more difficult than completing a Google Form. To create your own search engine head to Google.com/CSE. There you’ll select “add new search engine” and on the next screen all you have to do is enter a list of websites that you want your search engine to index. When your list is complete you’ll be given a URL for sharing your unique search engine. A demonstration of the whole, five minute process can be watched here. www.freetech4teachers.com
Search strategies based on an analysis of your topic. Directs you to the best search engines and sites for your specific topic. At NoodleQuest there is an interactive site to get you started on searching a topic.
Athenir. it is a search tool. When you enter a search term on Athenir you will get results from Yahoo along with a graphic of related search terms.
Internet Tutorials
Useful chart to identify the best search engines and directories for your needs. A good resource for specialty searches.
How to Create Your Own Search Engine It might sound complicated, but it’s not. In fact, it’s no more difficult than completing a Google Form. To create your own search engine head to Google.com/CSE. There you’ll select “add new search engine” and on the next screen all you have to do is enter a list of websites that you want your search engine to index. When your list is complete you’ll be given a URL for sharing your unique search engine. A demonstration of the whole, five minute process can be watched here. www.freetech4teachers.com
iPad Apps for Searching
DuckDuckGo Search & Stories search engine that protects your privacy and doesn’t collect or share your personal information. DuckDuckGo allows you to run quick searches and get results from a wide variety of other sources.
Ixquick Search you to search the net privately and anonymously. Using SSL encryption, all of your searches are encrypted making it difficult for hackers or intruders to see what you have been searching for. Additionally, Ixquick Search does not use tracking cookies and does not record IP addresses, location or search terms either.
StartPage Search allows you to browse the net privately. It provides all the privacy features you would find on Ixquick Search. For an extra layer of privacy, use Proxy. “ It works by copying the web page you want to visit onto our server, so you see it through us, not them. Because you never make contact with the third-party website, they can't infect you with cookies or malware, and they can't see your IP address or other information. They only see us, while you stay safe and invisible behind the scenes.
Ixquick Search you to search the net privately and anonymously. Using SSL encryption, all of your searches are encrypted making it difficult for hackers or intruders to see what you have been searching for. Additionally, Ixquick Search does not use tracking cookies and does not record IP addresses, location or search terms either.
StartPage Search allows you to browse the net privately. It provides all the privacy features you would find on Ixquick Search. For an extra layer of privacy, use Proxy. “ It works by copying the web page you want to visit onto our server, so you see it through us, not them. Because you never make contact with the third-party website, they can't infect you with cookies or malware, and they can't see your IP address or other information. They only see us, while you stay safe and invisible behind the scenes.
Google Search Lessons Google created search lessons at various levels
How Google search works and to find a slew of search tips. How Search Works is an animated graphic that reveals the basics of how websites are sorted, ranked, and presented to you in your search results. More information is revealed as you scroll down the How Search Works graphic. The Inside Search Tips and Tricks list highlights the kinds of information that you can discover through Google Search. Some of the tips and tricks highlighted include finding currency and measurement conversions, searching by file type, and using the advanced image search tools. These tips and tricks are what I would rate as beginner tips. To get more advanced search tips I recommend visiting Dan Russell's blog.
Soople a great page to start your search that breaks down many of the types of searches on Google into separate search boxes; good way to demonstrate to students the many things one can search on Google
Google Customized Search Engine With the help of a wizard, create your own search engine specifying subject areas that you want to search. article | How to Create Your Own Custom Search Engine
Searching Strategies
10 Search Tools and Tactics Teachers and Students Need to Know. The first thing on that list was to teach students to stop Googling "what" and "why" questions. In other words, teach students to use better search terms. A good resource that can help students understand web search strategies is Common Craft's Web Search Strategies in Plain English.
Better Searches. Better Results. is a poster that Google offers. It provides a handful of tips about using search modifiers to generate different sets of results. It should be noted that most of those modifiers work in other search engines as well. You can get a copy of that poster here. www.freetech4teachers.com
Stress Free Searching Strategies for Elementary Students
Evaluating Information Online This video teaches the basics of evaluating the trustworthiness of neww and information, The brief vieo walks through the basics of evaluating a website to find quality information. It encourages viewers to evaluate websites in the way an editor would review an article. By thinking lie an editor, we can be our own gatekeeper and learn to find the most trustworthy information.
A Simple Tool for Finding Related Search Keywords Brainstorming lists of alternative words and phrases is one of the strategies students should use when conducting online research. Doing this before they start a search and or whenever they feel stuck can help them generate new search result pages that doesn't duplicate the results of their previous queries. But sometimes our brainstorming sessions need a little jumpstart. That's when a tool like Keyword.io can be helpful. On Keyword.io you can enter a search term and have a list of related search terms generated for you. These are different and more comprehensive lists than Google's default "people also search for..." suggestions.www.freetech4teachers.com
Three Lessons in Using Context Clues in Online Research
Consensus” Uses Artificial Intelligence To Help You Find Answers To Your Research Questions Consensus is an online tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to analyze your research question and explore 200 million peer-reviewed articles to find the answer.
Wiki SearchWikis abound on the web. When you search for a special movie character based on a comic book character, you’ll find the bio in an online wiki. Have a question about how to do something? A wiki page articulates the steps. Looking for encyclopedic information about anything? Someone has put it into a wiki Wiki.com searches ALL wikis. That’s a search that yields more than only popular wikis like Wikipedia (the online encyclopedia). This makes it a handy tool because it focuses on wikified data that is often curated like a web directory.
Here Is A Good Tool to Help Students Discover Similar Websites Similar Sites is a a web tool and Chrome extension that you and your students can use to find online resources similar to the one you are presently browsing. With a single click Similar Sites provides you with a list of websites that feature identical content to the site you are navigating. Students can use it a s a research tool to source topic-based or niche-specific materials and digital references. It can also be used as a springboard to further explore content written on a specific topic and to 'grow your reading list'. Whether you use the web-based tool or the Chrome extension,
Lesson on Becoming an Internet Detective Using GoogleThe questions and activities in a lesson from The New York Times Learning Network help students understand why and how to do better Google searches but also weave in ways to apply the information and practice on their own. For example: How can using quotation marks help target searches more effectively? How can using an asterisk help even more? How do you put a date restriction on results? What can adding the “site:” operator to a search do? How do you add search shortcuts to your browser’s address bar?
Find What You Want ( gr. K - 2 ) features a short video about the basic concepts of web search and a short video about the basics of online advertising. After each of the three minute videos kids can take a self-paced quiz. If you would rather not show the videos, PBS Kids does provide storyboard of both Find What You Want videos that you can show to your students. www.freetech4teachers.com
Private or Incognito Browsing Explained by Common Craft teaches viewers what the incognito or private browser function does, what it doesn't do, and the legitimate reasons for using it. www.freetech4techers.com
Video on filtering searches for current news or trends
Searching With Success animated video shows students how search engines function. The tutorial gives clear examples and directions for altering search terms.
Become Better At Finding Stuff With Search Engines: Boolean Search Logic Explained
Google search tips, check out this resource In-depth Articles a new feature where sometimes at the bottom of the first page of search results you will see a block of sites titled In-depth Articles.
Google Customized Search Engine Requires a Google account to make a customized search engine. Create a specific and narrowed down search engine and control what websites will be included in the search results. You don’t need any coding skills in order to build your own search engine.
The Advanced Google Searches Every Student Should Know
Is It Reliable? Activity
Refine Your Searches
Google Date Range Filter - Click on Tools, then Anytime drop-down and chhose custome range.
Google Search Lessons
Infographic Featuring 30+ Practical Google Search Tips
The Kids' Guide to Google Search A hidden calculator, a filter for reading level, photo magic, and a whole lot more hacks and tricks.
A Simple Visual Guide on How to Refine Google Search (for Teachers and Students )
MoresiteLike a website that can help you to find similar websites to your favorite websites that you visit every day. It is likely you will find a website where you will visit every day.
38 interesting ways_to_use_search_engines
Good online searching requires knowing the most appropriate methods for locating digital information, how to turn questions into queries and how to browse in order to "home in" on relevant information. Full Circle Resource Kits are loaded with free-to-use activities that address each of these common needs: Ways to Search - Should I browse or query?Keyword Challenges - choosing keywords intelligently Competent Browsing - home in on the
information you need Full Circle Kits on Evaluation, helping students become better consumers of information has never been easier with Information Researcher, our newest resource
Dan Russell video talks about search strategies. Internet Search: What makes it simple, difficult, or impossible? Dan Russell explains what can make searches difficult, common search mistakes, and strategies for better searches.
Wiki SearchWikis abound on the web. When you search for a special movie character based on a comic book character, you’ll find the bio in an online wiki. Have a question about how to do something? A wiki page articulates the steps. Looking for encyclopedic information about anything? Someone has put it into a wiki Wiki.com searches ALL wikis. That’s a search that yields more than only popular wikis like Wikipedia (the online encyclopedia). This makes it a handy tool because it focuses on wikified data that is often curated like a web directory.
Wikibrains is a website designed to help you brainstorm in a web format. When you brainstorm on Wikibrains you're also performing a basic Internet search at the same time. To create a brainstorm web on Wikibrains start by entering one word or phrase. When you enter a word you will be prompted to add more words by completing the phrase, "Makes me think off..." Each new word or phrase that you enter will be added to your web. As you enter words on the right side of the screen you will see links to search results about each word.
How Google search works and to find a slew of search tips. How Search Works is an animated graphic that reveals the basics of how websites are sorted, ranked, and presented to you in your search results. More information is revealed as you scroll down the How Search Works graphic. The Inside Search Tips and Tricks list highlights the kinds of information that you can discover through Google Search. Some of the tips and tricks highlighted include finding currency and measurement conversions, searching by file type, and using the advanced image search tools. These tips and tricks are what I would rate as beginner tips. To get more advanced search tips I recommend visiting Dan Russell's blog.
- Add the phrase intitle: to your search term will produce results with that term in the title of the webpage. Think of scanning a library by just browsing the spines of the books on the shelves. Want a book that focuses just on the Battle of Gettysburg? Find a book that is titled “Battle of Gettysburg.” Google Search does the same thing with websites.
Soople a great page to start your search that breaks down many of the types of searches on Google into separate search boxes; good way to demonstrate to students the many things one can search on Google
Google Customized Search Engine With the help of a wizard, create your own search engine specifying subject areas that you want to search. article | How to Create Your Own Custom Search Engine
Searching Strategies
10 Search Tools and Tactics Teachers and Students Need to Know. The first thing on that list was to teach students to stop Googling "what" and "why" questions. In other words, teach students to use better search terms. A good resource that can help students understand web search strategies is Common Craft's Web Search Strategies in Plain English.
Better Searches. Better Results. is a poster that Google offers. It provides a handful of tips about using search modifiers to generate different sets of results. It should be noted that most of those modifiers work in other search engines as well. You can get a copy of that poster here. www.freetech4teachers.com
Stress Free Searching Strategies for Elementary Students
Evaluating Information Online This video teaches the basics of evaluating the trustworthiness of neww and information, The brief vieo walks through the basics of evaluating a website to find quality information. It encourages viewers to evaluate websites in the way an editor would review an article. By thinking lie an editor, we can be our own gatekeeper and learn to find the most trustworthy information.
A Simple Tool for Finding Related Search Keywords Brainstorming lists of alternative words and phrases is one of the strategies students should use when conducting online research. Doing this before they start a search and or whenever they feel stuck can help them generate new search result pages that doesn't duplicate the results of their previous queries. But sometimes our brainstorming sessions need a little jumpstart. That's when a tool like Keyword.io can be helpful. On Keyword.io you can enter a search term and have a list of related search terms generated for you. These are different and more comprehensive lists than Google's default "people also search for..." suggestions.www.freetech4teachers.com
Three Lessons in Using Context Clues in Online Research
Consensus” Uses Artificial Intelligence To Help You Find Answers To Your Research Questions Consensus is an online tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to analyze your research question and explore 200 million peer-reviewed articles to find the answer.
Wiki SearchWikis abound on the web. When you search for a special movie character based on a comic book character, you’ll find the bio in an online wiki. Have a question about how to do something? A wiki page articulates the steps. Looking for encyclopedic information about anything? Someone has put it into a wiki Wiki.com searches ALL wikis. That’s a search that yields more than only popular wikis like Wikipedia (the online encyclopedia). This makes it a handy tool because it focuses on wikified data that is often curated like a web directory.
Here Is A Good Tool to Help Students Discover Similar Websites Similar Sites is a a web tool and Chrome extension that you and your students can use to find online resources similar to the one you are presently browsing. With a single click Similar Sites provides you with a list of websites that feature identical content to the site you are navigating. Students can use it a s a research tool to source topic-based or niche-specific materials and digital references. It can also be used as a springboard to further explore content written on a specific topic and to 'grow your reading list'. Whether you use the web-based tool or the Chrome extension,
Lesson on Becoming an Internet Detective Using GoogleThe questions and activities in a lesson from The New York Times Learning Network help students understand why and how to do better Google searches but also weave in ways to apply the information and practice on their own. For example: How can using quotation marks help target searches more effectively? How can using an asterisk help even more? How do you put a date restriction on results? What can adding the “site:” operator to a search do? How do you add search shortcuts to your browser’s address bar?
Find What You Want ( gr. K - 2 ) features a short video about the basic concepts of web search and a short video about the basics of online advertising. After each of the three minute videos kids can take a self-paced quiz. If you would rather not show the videos, PBS Kids does provide storyboard of both Find What You Want videos that you can show to your students. www.freetech4teachers.com
Private or Incognito Browsing Explained by Common Craft teaches viewers what the incognito or private browser function does, what it doesn't do, and the legitimate reasons for using it. www.freetech4techers.com
Video on filtering searches for current news or trends
Searching With Success animated video shows students how search engines function. The tutorial gives clear examples and directions for altering search terms.
Become Better At Finding Stuff With Search Engines: Boolean Search Logic Explained
Google search tips, check out this resource In-depth Articles a new feature where sometimes at the bottom of the first page of search results you will see a block of sites titled In-depth Articles.
Google Customized Search Engine Requires a Google account to make a customized search engine. Create a specific and narrowed down search engine and control what websites will be included in the search results. You don’t need any coding skills in order to build your own search engine.
The Advanced Google Searches Every Student Should Know
Is It Reliable? Activity
Refine Your Searches
Google Date Range Filter - Click on Tools, then Anytime drop-down and chhose custome range.
Google Search Lessons
Infographic Featuring 30+ Practical Google Search Tips
The Kids' Guide to Google Search A hidden calculator, a filter for reading level, photo magic, and a whole lot more hacks and tricks.
A Simple Visual Guide on How to Refine Google Search (for Teachers and Students )
MoresiteLike a website that can help you to find similar websites to your favorite websites that you visit every day. It is likely you will find a website where you will visit every day.
38 interesting ways_to_use_search_engines
Good online searching requires knowing the most appropriate methods for locating digital information, how to turn questions into queries and how to browse in order to "home in" on relevant information. Full Circle Resource Kits are loaded with free-to-use activities that address each of these common needs: Ways to Search - Should I browse or query?Keyword Challenges - choosing keywords intelligently Competent Browsing - home in on the
information you need Full Circle Kits on Evaluation, helping students become better consumers of information has never been easier with Information Researcher, our newest resource
Dan Russell video talks about search strategies. Internet Search: What makes it simple, difficult, or impossible? Dan Russell explains what can make searches difficult, common search mistakes, and strategies for better searches.
Wiki SearchWikis abound on the web. When you search for a special movie character based on a comic book character, you’ll find the bio in an online wiki. Have a question about how to do something? A wiki page articulates the steps. Looking for encyclopedic information about anything? Someone has put it into a wiki Wiki.com searches ALL wikis. That’s a search that yields more than only popular wikis like Wikipedia (the online encyclopedia). This makes it a handy tool because it focuses on wikified data that is often curated like a web directory.
Wikibrains is a website designed to help you brainstorm in a web format. When you brainstorm on Wikibrains you're also performing a basic Internet search at the same time. To create a brainstorm web on Wikibrains start by entering one word or phrase. When you enter a word you will be prompted to add more words by completing the phrase, "Makes me think off..." Each new word or phrase that you enter will be added to your web. As you enter words on the right side of the screen you will see links to search results about each word.
Specialized Google Searches Google has numerous special searching powers, e.g., recipes, definitions, movies, converters, and many more
PearlTree - concept map framework for searching and brainstorming
Yippy Clustering search engine. Use to be called Vivisimo. It categories search hits by topics.
RefSeek Academic search engine that makes academic information easier to access than typical search engines. Refseek cuts down on the overload of non-academic search results by eliminating sponsored links and commercial search results.
Yolink
Free downloadable search tool. Search links and electronic documents through key terms and find content in context with key words highlighted. Collect and share desired content
ReadCube is a desktop application that you can use to organize your files and PDFs. It resembles Mendely in that it provides a library where you can save your research literature for offline access.
Quintura
Quintura allows you to enter in a search topic and then presents a split screen with a tag cloud on one half and search results in the other. In this example, a search for “The Sopranos” brings up a cloud with links like “hbo” and “television” on the left, with direct links to web sites on the right. Quintura for Kids
Alexa.com
This search engine site can tell you how often your website in question is "hit, from what countries the "hits" emanate, and reviews.
Context Menu Search is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to highlight words on a webpage then right-click to search for those words on more than three dozen popular search engines and reference sites. When you have Context Menu Search installed, just highlight, right-click, then select the search engine that you want to use. To see Context Menu Search in action, watch the short Tekzilla video
Wolfram Alpha WolframAlpha is a unique, web based computation engine. The results differ in that the search results will be data driven. Whereas a Google search will provide links to endless information, this search engine will provide data. This search tools is an outstanding resource for math and science research. Provides "Examples by Topic" with tips on how to use the search engine across disciplines.
ChaCha
Users to send questions via text or voice for free; within minutes, the query is
answered and delivered back to the phone.
NoodleTools Noodle Tools provides a range of free and subscription-based web search and annotation tools. The free "Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need" tool helps students define topics, select search tools, and search effectively.
Surchur
This is a site that looks for the latest entries on various web interfaces (Twitter, blogs, etc.) that match your search topic.
Introduction to Searching PowerPoint Presentation
Presents misconceptions about searching and introduces novice searching strategies.
S.O.S. for Information Literacy for Children
A searchable collection of lessons for teaching information literacy.
Screencast on the Deep Web
Learn about Web sites located on databases, the fastest growing component of the Internet. Good source for articles and accurate information on topics.
More Deep Web/ Invisible Web resources and explanations
A Tutorial in Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity
Beyond Google. the Invisible Web : good concise explanations and *sites to use for searching the Invisible Web
The following are two good general Invisible Web search directories
Beaucoup
Complete Planet
99 Resources to Research & Mine the Invisible Web
Databases start at 22 on the list.
Clipmarks
Clip and save just the stuff you want from any web page. Create your personal online collection of clipmarks. Tag them with keywords, add your own comments and share
them with friends. Search the Public Clipmarks to see what's being clipped and who is clipping it.
Yippy Clustering search engine. Use to be called Vivisimo. It categories search hits by topics.
RefSeek Academic search engine that makes academic information easier to access than typical search engines. Refseek cuts down on the overload of non-academic search results by eliminating sponsored links and commercial search results.
Yolink
Free downloadable search tool. Search links and electronic documents through key terms and find content in context with key words highlighted. Collect and share desired content
ReadCube is a desktop application that you can use to organize your files and PDFs. It resembles Mendely in that it provides a library where you can save your research literature for offline access.
Quintura
Quintura allows you to enter in a search topic and then presents a split screen with a tag cloud on one half and search results in the other. In this example, a search for “The Sopranos” brings up a cloud with links like “hbo” and “television” on the left, with direct links to web sites on the right. Quintura for Kids
Alexa.com
This search engine site can tell you how often your website in question is "hit, from what countries the "hits" emanate, and reviews.
Context Menu Search is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to highlight words on a webpage then right-click to search for those words on more than three dozen popular search engines and reference sites. When you have Context Menu Search installed, just highlight, right-click, then select the search engine that you want to use. To see Context Menu Search in action, watch the short Tekzilla video
Wolfram Alpha WolframAlpha is a unique, web based computation engine. The results differ in that the search results will be data driven. Whereas a Google search will provide links to endless information, this search engine will provide data. This search tools is an outstanding resource for math and science research. Provides "Examples by Topic" with tips on how to use the search engine across disciplines.
ChaCha
Users to send questions via text or voice for free; within minutes, the query is
answered and delivered back to the phone.
NoodleTools Noodle Tools provides a range of free and subscription-based web search and annotation tools. The free "Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need" tool helps students define topics, select search tools, and search effectively.
Surchur
This is a site that looks for the latest entries on various web interfaces (Twitter, blogs, etc.) that match your search topic.
Introduction to Searching PowerPoint Presentation
Presents misconceptions about searching and introduces novice searching strategies.
S.O.S. for Information Literacy for Children
A searchable collection of lessons for teaching information literacy.
Screencast on the Deep Web
Learn about Web sites located on databases, the fastest growing component of the Internet. Good source for articles and accurate information on topics.
More Deep Web/ Invisible Web resources and explanations
A Tutorial in Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity
Beyond Google. the Invisible Web : good concise explanations and *sites to use for searching the Invisible Web
The following are two good general Invisible Web search directories
Beaucoup
Complete Planet
99 Resources to Research & Mine the Invisible Web
Databases start at 22 on the list.
Clipmarks
Clip and save just the stuff you want from any web page. Create your personal online collection of clipmarks. Tag them with keywords, add your own comments and share
them with friends. Search the Public Clipmarks to see what's being clipped and who is clipping it.
Bogus Web Sites to use for Lessons on Analyzing information
Misleading Websites Includes how to spot a fake Some sites are real and some are fake or silly. Examples of news satire. A few websites are addressing the issue of misleading information.
"To Fix Fake News Look to Yellow Journalism"
What’s the Real Problem with Fake News? We Are Wired to Believe It
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus | All About Explorers | DHMO
For example, ask student to find the purpose of the Web site, interesting facts, and information about the source. more faux sites here and look below
Citizens vs. Fake News Guide
Fake News Presentation
Tool for Parsing Fact from Fiction
The nonpartisan, nonprofit News Literacy Project (NLP) has launched a tool for teachers to help them fight disinformation and strengthen news literacy. The tool is aimed in part at highlighting the importance of the First Amendment and value of the free press.
How to Explain Disinformation
Fact-Checking Your Writing: Tips & Helpful Websites Includes salient concise information in an engaging format. Best Website suggestions.
Fact Checking Resources | Google’s Fact Check Explorer lets you search different topics you have questions about. This tool collects more than 150,000 fact checks from reputable publishers from around the world. | Google also created a site with fact-checking resources. You can enter a topic or name then see a list of articles accompanied by notations about the accuracy of the claims in those articles. You can click through to the source of each article and the fact checker. Watch this short video that for an overview of how to use Google's Fact Check Explorer. www.freetech4teachers.com
Snopes“When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes’ fact-checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis. We always link to and document our sources so readers are empowered to do independent research and make up their own minds.”
PolitiFact“Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy.”
Factcheck.org “We re a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship and to increase public knowledge and understanding.”
AllSides“AllSides™ is a media solutions company that strengthens our democratic society with balanced news, media bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation. We expose people to information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so they can better understand the world — and each other.”
Civic Online Reasoning is a free resource from the Stanford History Education Group. Currently, Civic Online Reasoning offers twenty activity plans that you can download and or access as Google Docs when you register for a free account on the Stanford History Education Group's website. The activities include templates for building lessons on evaluating social media claims, evaluating a website's reliability, researching claims made on social media (and other places), and comparing evidence from multiple sites. www.freetech4teachers.com
Hints about Print - Hints about Print demonstrates the process of evaluating a nonfiction print resource to determine its appropriateness for a research project. What a great tool to possibly evaluate a web resource for any class project.
All About Explorers designed to help students develop their skills in identifying valid information found on the Internet. On All About Explorers students find fake biographies of famous explorers. The biographies do contain information that is in part based on facts, the content is intentionally written to be inaccurate. Teachers who want to use All About Explorers to teach their students to be discerning consumers of information should take a look at the All About Explorers lessons and treasure hunts. The treasure hunts are short activities in which students compare information from multiple sources on the web. The lesson plans are a series of five activities designed to introduce students to web research strategies discerning the quality of information found online. My only criticism of the lesson plans is that lesson four perpetuates the myth that .org domains are generally non-profit organizations and that they somehow have more credibility than .com or .net domains. (A quick glance at martinlutherking.org or dhmo.org will dispel those myths).
List of more Fake websites
Misleading Websites Includes how to spot a fake Some sites are real and some are fake or silly. Examples of news satire. A few websites are addressing the issue of misleading information.
"To Fix Fake News Look to Yellow Journalism"
What’s the Real Problem with Fake News? We Are Wired to Believe It
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus | All About Explorers | DHMO
For example, ask student to find the purpose of the Web site, interesting facts, and information about the source. more faux sites here and look below
Citizens vs. Fake News Guide
Fake News Presentation
Tool for Parsing Fact from Fiction
The nonpartisan, nonprofit News Literacy Project (NLP) has launched a tool for teachers to help them fight disinformation and strengthen news literacy. The tool is aimed in part at highlighting the importance of the First Amendment and value of the free press.
How to Explain Disinformation
Fact-Checking Your Writing: Tips & Helpful Websites Includes salient concise information in an engaging format. Best Website suggestions.
Fact Checking Resources | Google’s Fact Check Explorer lets you search different topics you have questions about. This tool collects more than 150,000 fact checks from reputable publishers from around the world. | Google also created a site with fact-checking resources. You can enter a topic or name then see a list of articles accompanied by notations about the accuracy of the claims in those articles. You can click through to the source of each article and the fact checker. Watch this short video that for an overview of how to use Google's Fact Check Explorer. www.freetech4teachers.com
Snopes“When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes’ fact-checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis. We always link to and document our sources so readers are empowered to do independent research and make up their own minds.”
PolitiFact“Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy.”
Factcheck.org “We re a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship and to increase public knowledge and understanding.”
AllSides“AllSides™ is a media solutions company that strengthens our democratic society with balanced news, media bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation. We expose people to information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so they can better understand the world — and each other.”
Civic Online Reasoning is a free resource from the Stanford History Education Group. Currently, Civic Online Reasoning offers twenty activity plans that you can download and or access as Google Docs when you register for a free account on the Stanford History Education Group's website. The activities include templates for building lessons on evaluating social media claims, evaluating a website's reliability, researching claims made on social media (and other places), and comparing evidence from multiple sites. www.freetech4teachers.com
Hints about Print - Hints about Print demonstrates the process of evaluating a nonfiction print resource to determine its appropriateness for a research project. What a great tool to possibly evaluate a web resource for any class project.
All About Explorers designed to help students develop their skills in identifying valid information found on the Internet. On All About Explorers students find fake biographies of famous explorers. The biographies do contain information that is in part based on facts, the content is intentionally written to be inaccurate. Teachers who want to use All About Explorers to teach their students to be discerning consumers of information should take a look at the All About Explorers lessons and treasure hunts. The treasure hunts are short activities in which students compare information from multiple sources on the web. The lesson plans are a series of five activities designed to introduce students to web research strategies discerning the quality of information found online. My only criticism of the lesson plans is that lesson four perpetuates the myth that .org domains are generally non-profit organizations and that they somehow have more credibility than .com or .net domains. (A quick glance at martinlutherking.org or dhmo.org will dispel those myths).
List of more Fake websites
Searching Strategy Activities
What to Do Before Searching Technique for brainstorming for synonyms and keywords
Searching with Kids Interactive introduction to online searching for elementary age students.
Driving Questions: Students Uncovering Amazing Content Through Inquiry
Three Ideas for Encouraging Students to do Research in Digital Archives www.freetech4teachers.com
Archives www.freetech4teachers.comInteractive map of the research process for students. The map, titled How To Do Research, walks students through the research process from start to finish with every step along the way. One of the things about this map that school librarians will like is that it is not focused solely on web research.
Kids Search Tools Index
Use this page from the Ramapo Catskill Internet Guides to learn about and search with a variety of child-oriented search tools.
S.O.S. for Information Literacy for Children
A searchable collection of lessons for teaching information literacy.
21st Century Information Fluencey Project
The Wizzard Tools are valuable for keywords and citations. The tutorial section has a wide variety of specific searching tutorials See how to find and save discontinued sites. The Search Challenge gives students the opportunity to use their searching skills. The Resources have lessons and detailed advanced strategies.
Talk To Books You type a question or a statement into the search bar (obviously, it’s Google!) and in return, you’ll get quotes from inside of books that seemingly answer your questions or pertain to your sentence.
What to Do Before Searching Technique for brainstorming for synonyms and keywords
Searching with Kids Interactive introduction to online searching for elementary age students.
Driving Questions: Students Uncovering Amazing Content Through Inquiry
- Takes essential questions and transforms them into action
- Read article with resources
Three Ideas for Encouraging Students to do Research in Digital Archives www.freetech4teachers.com
Archives www.freetech4teachers.comInteractive map of the research process for students. The map, titled How To Do Research, walks students through the research process from start to finish with every step along the way. One of the things about this map that school librarians will like is that it is not focused solely on web research.
Kids Search Tools Index
Use this page from the Ramapo Catskill Internet Guides to learn about and search with a variety of child-oriented search tools.
S.O.S. for Information Literacy for Children
A searchable collection of lessons for teaching information literacy.
21st Century Information Fluencey Project
The Wizzard Tools are valuable for keywords and citations. The tutorial section has a wide variety of specific searching tutorials See how to find and save discontinued sites. The Search Challenge gives students the opportunity to use their searching skills. The Resources have lessons and detailed advanced strategies.
Talk To Books You type a question or a statement into the search bar (obviously, it’s Google!) and in return, you’ll get quotes from inside of books that seemingly answer your questions or pertain to your sentence.
Roadmap This is a simple tool that gives you the ability to plan projects by simply dragging and dropping, providing flexibility when your plan change. It is also a powerful scheduling tool that brings your entire team’s schedule into one timeline, giving you a grand overview of everyone’s work. Roadmap is integrated with your favorite tools (Slack, Trello, Jira, etc) to help get everyone together in one place.
Guided Research Activities
The Digital Research Process Visually Explained The poster features the 7 phases that comprise the research process and for each phase with suggestions of web tools student researchers can use to accomplish it.
Consensus” Uses Artificial Intelligence To Help You Find Answers To Your Research Questions Consensus is an online tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to analyze your research question and explore 200 million peer-reviewed articles to find the answer.
SciSpace lets you search for research papers on any topic. Then, instead of reading it yourself, you can ask it questions about the information you seek and Artificial Intelligence provides you with the answers.
Zotero - https://www.zotero.org/ - is a free tool designed to help users efficiently collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. It simplifies managing bibliographic data and related research materials (like PDFs), supports direct integration with word processors for citation, and facilitates collaboration through shared libraries. Zotero is available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS, promoting research organization and productivity across platforms.
Making student research more fun and efficient
It is not easy for our students to research today -- or to read with a critical eye all the information they encounter. Yet these are the very skills they need in an internet-driven world. In his new MiddleWeb column, author and middle school teacher Jeremy Hyler shares teaching tips that can make research writing more fun, effective and efficient.
Three Ideas for Encouraging Students to do Research in Digital Archives www.freetech4teachers.comVideo How to Use Wikipedia Wisely
Science Research Papers Annotated With Teaching Resources
Webjets is an information management tool. Webjets provides you with an intuitive platform where you can collect, save and organize digital content. Besides content curation, you can also use Webjets to record your notes, set goals, remember tasks, create mind maps, and share your digital libraries with others. You can also utilize it to collaborate with others in creating digital boards. Besides content curation, you can also use Webjets to record your notes, set goals, remember tasks, create mind maps, and share your digital libraries with others. You can also utilize it to collaborate with others in creating digital boards.
A Collection of Good Web Tools to Help Research Students
Zooniverse is an amazing site where scholars put up projects that require “people-powered research” – for example, attempting to decode formerly secret Civil War telegrams. It has many projects in multiple subject areas, along with very cool online tools for students to use when doing the research. The site also has lesson plans for teachers to use when introducing students to the site. A site like this offers real purposes for student learning.
Mendeley can be used as a searchable library for students to store and access annotations. Mendeley video tutorial
Google Customized Search Engine Requires a Google account to make a customized search engine. Create a specific and narrowed down search engine and control what websites will be included in the search results. You don’t need any coding skills in order to build your own search engine.
The Advanced Google Searches Every Student Should Know
Is It Reliable? Activity
Refine Your Searches
Google Date Range Filter - Click on Tools, then Anytime drop-down and chhose custome range.
Google Search Lessons
Baloney Meter Critical thinking is an important part of learning and involves the ability to reason effectively, utilize systems thinking, make judgements, and solve problems. Although it is an important component of learning, how do you help your students to think beyond the obvious? This free iOS App leads you through several questions to consider the relevance of a claim, website, and even political candidate!
Credo Reference Credo Reference provides students with reference articles from more than 4,000 reference books. In that regard Credo Reference is a search engine for encyclopedia entries. There are a few features of Credo Reference that teachers will appreciates. First, all articles returned in a search provide students with an option to hear the text read aloud. Second, every article is accompanied by a list of related terms and links to those related articles. Finally, every article has a pre-formatted citation listed at the bottom. Students can copy and paste that citation to use in their works cited pages.
The basic Credo Reference search and the functions highlighted above are available to anyone visiting the website. Libraries that subscribe to the Credo service can unlock additional tools for students.
Credo Reference could be a good tool for students to use at the start of a research project. The reference articles can provide students with a quick overview of a topic that they can reference as they dive deeper into their research. The list of related topics provided with each Credo Reference article could help some students choose a sub-topic or focus area for their research on a broad topic.
QuestGarden WebQuests are structured Internet research exercises that lead students to create an educational product. They provide a simple structure for student inquiry on the Web, guiding them towards important questions and the most useful Web sites. There are tens of thousands of WebQuests to adapt as well as a template to create your own at QuestGarden.
Research It Right walks students through the process of forming a research question through the actual research steps.
7 Step to Do Academic Research Using Digital Technologies Research is a process. It is a continuum of stages that together make up a research plan. Below is a tentative sketch of what we think are the seven important steps of a research plan. For each of these stages we featured a short collection of web tools to help you carry it out. We have also created a poster capturing the steps and tools we covered here. You can download, share and use the poster the way you want as long as you use it for educational purposes.
Wikipedia Explained by Common Craft A good resource to help people understand how Wikipedia works . The video explains how Wikipedia entries are written, updated, verified, and maintained. Watch the video on Common Craft or as embedded below.
TrackStar Simply collect websites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a "Track." Create your own Track or use one already made by other educators. , the instructions are clear and well illustrated and by all accounts the system is stable, well designed, and easy-to-use. You can search or create Tracks by subject, grade level, standards, etc .
Beyond Cut and Paste: drawing conclusions from facts through grids to organize thinking decision-making and choices
Quintura for Kids
Allows you to enter in a search topic and then presents a split screen with a tag cloud on one half and search results in the other. In this example, a search for “The Sopranos” brings up a cloud with links like “hbo” and “television” on the left, with direct links to web sites on the right.
Links to Elementary directories and engines
Online Activities that Promote Information Literacy Lessons. learning tools and evaluations for information literacy learning.
Research On and Offline Concise overview of the research process for elementary and middle school students.
The Best Resources To Help Students Write Research Essays
🎯Boolify A simple jigsaw game that teaches students the effects of "and", "or", and "not". The game is simple enough for elementary students as well as high schoolers, The sites has lessons, other resources and video tutorials in the Help page.
Boolean Primer Introduces Boolean expressions through Venn diagrams.
The Boolean Machine Interactive Venn diagrams to teach basic Boolean terms.
Boolean I: A review of Boolean expressions, Venn diagrams, and Synonyms
Boolean II: More Boolean practice
Boolean Worksheets for elementary school students
Boolean starter sheet
Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3
Athenir. it is a search tool. When you enter a search term on Athenir you will get results from Yahoo along with a graphic of related search terms.
The Digital Research Process Visually Explained The poster features the 7 phases that comprise the research process and for each phase with suggestions of web tools student researchers can use to accomplish it.
Consensus” Uses Artificial Intelligence To Help You Find Answers To Your Research Questions Consensus is an online tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to analyze your research question and explore 200 million peer-reviewed articles to find the answer.
SciSpace lets you search for research papers on any topic. Then, instead of reading it yourself, you can ask it questions about the information you seek and Artificial Intelligence provides you with the answers.
Zotero - https://www.zotero.org/ - is a free tool designed to help users efficiently collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. It simplifies managing bibliographic data and related research materials (like PDFs), supports direct integration with word processors for citation, and facilitates collaboration through shared libraries. Zotero is available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS, promoting research organization and productivity across platforms.
Making student research more fun and efficient
It is not easy for our students to research today -- or to read with a critical eye all the information they encounter. Yet these are the very skills they need in an internet-driven world. In his new MiddleWeb column, author and middle school teacher Jeremy Hyler shares teaching tips that can make research writing more fun, effective and efficient.
- 51 Wacky We-Search Reports: Face the Facts With Fun. Throughout his book he has different lessons associated with different types of research projects. Lane is trying to make research writing fun to learn, using facts (and art) sure to intrigue adolescents.
- Research Writing ReWired: Lessons that Ground Students’ Digital Learning - book Reed and Hicks begin the book by stating how the research paper today has a very poor reputation. Let’s face it, it does! The two authors have the goal to challenge the negativity of the research paper and to “help students develop the skills they need to act as genuine researchers, not to merely finish a research paper.”
Three Ideas for Encouraging Students to do Research in Digital Archives www.freetech4teachers.comVideo How to Use Wikipedia Wisely
Science Research Papers Annotated With Teaching Resources
- Science in the Classroom is a free resource for teachers from Science Magazine. On Science in the Classroom you will find research papers containing interactive annotations to help students understand the content of the papers. In the right hand margin of each paper you will find a section called "learning lens." The learning lens offers seven types of interactive annotations that students can enable. Of those seven types of annotations, the glossary annotation is the one that students will probably use most often. The glossary annotations highlight key words and terms in the article. Clicking on a highlighted annotation reveals a definition. In addition to the interactive annotations for students Science in the Classroom provides teachers with discussion and reading comprehension questions. At the bottom of each article on Science in the Classroom teachers will also find a list of suggested teaching activities. www.freetech4teachers.com
Webjets is an information management tool. Webjets provides you with an intuitive platform where you can collect, save and organize digital content. Besides content curation, you can also use Webjets to record your notes, set goals, remember tasks, create mind maps, and share your digital libraries with others. You can also utilize it to collaborate with others in creating digital boards. Besides content curation, you can also use Webjets to record your notes, set goals, remember tasks, create mind maps, and share your digital libraries with others. You can also utilize it to collaborate with others in creating digital boards.
A Collection of Good Web Tools to Help Research Students
Zooniverse is an amazing site where scholars put up projects that require “people-powered research” – for example, attempting to decode formerly secret Civil War telegrams. It has many projects in multiple subject areas, along with very cool online tools for students to use when doing the research. The site also has lesson plans for teachers to use when introducing students to the site. A site like this offers real purposes for student learning.
Mendeley can be used as a searchable library for students to store and access annotations. Mendeley video tutorial
Google Customized Search Engine Requires a Google account to make a customized search engine. Create a specific and narrowed down search engine and control what websites will be included in the search results. You don’t need any coding skills in order to build your own search engine.
The Advanced Google Searches Every Student Should Know
Is It Reliable? Activity
Refine Your Searches
Google Date Range Filter - Click on Tools, then Anytime drop-down and chhose custome range.
Google Search Lessons
Baloney Meter Critical thinking is an important part of learning and involves the ability to reason effectively, utilize systems thinking, make judgements, and solve problems. Although it is an important component of learning, how do you help your students to think beyond the obvious? This free iOS App leads you through several questions to consider the relevance of a claim, website, and even political candidate!
- Is the claim baloney?
- Is its source reliable?
- Can it be tested?
- Is there confirmation for it?
- Can there be another explanation?
Credo Reference Credo Reference provides students with reference articles from more than 4,000 reference books. In that regard Credo Reference is a search engine for encyclopedia entries. There are a few features of Credo Reference that teachers will appreciates. First, all articles returned in a search provide students with an option to hear the text read aloud. Second, every article is accompanied by a list of related terms and links to those related articles. Finally, every article has a pre-formatted citation listed at the bottom. Students can copy and paste that citation to use in their works cited pages.
The basic Credo Reference search and the functions highlighted above are available to anyone visiting the website. Libraries that subscribe to the Credo service can unlock additional tools for students.
Credo Reference could be a good tool for students to use at the start of a research project. The reference articles can provide students with a quick overview of a topic that they can reference as they dive deeper into their research. The list of related topics provided with each Credo Reference article could help some students choose a sub-topic or focus area for their research on a broad topic.
QuestGarden WebQuests are structured Internet research exercises that lead students to create an educational product. They provide a simple structure for student inquiry on the Web, guiding them towards important questions and the most useful Web sites. There are tens of thousands of WebQuests to adapt as well as a template to create your own at QuestGarden.
Research It Right walks students through the process of forming a research question through the actual research steps.
7 Step to Do Academic Research Using Digital Technologies Research is a process. It is a continuum of stages that together make up a research plan. Below is a tentative sketch of what we think are the seven important steps of a research plan. For each of these stages we featured a short collection of web tools to help you carry it out. We have also created a poster capturing the steps and tools we covered here. You can download, share and use the poster the way you want as long as you use it for educational purposes.
Wikipedia Explained by Common Craft A good resource to help people understand how Wikipedia works . The video explains how Wikipedia entries are written, updated, verified, and maintained. Watch the video on Common Craft or as embedded below.
TrackStar Simply collect websites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a "Track." Create your own Track or use one already made by other educators. , the instructions are clear and well illustrated and by all accounts the system is stable, well designed, and easy-to-use. You can search or create Tracks by subject, grade level, standards, etc .
Beyond Cut and Paste: drawing conclusions from facts through grids to organize thinking decision-making and choices
Quintura for Kids
Allows you to enter in a search topic and then presents a split screen with a tag cloud on one half and search results in the other. In this example, a search for “The Sopranos” brings up a cloud with links like “hbo” and “television” on the left, with direct links to web sites on the right.
Links to Elementary directories and engines
Online Activities that Promote Information Literacy Lessons. learning tools and evaluations for information literacy learning.
Research On and Offline Concise overview of the research process for elementary and middle school students.
The Best Resources To Help Students Write Research Essays
🎯Boolify A simple jigsaw game that teaches students the effects of "and", "or", and "not". The game is simple enough for elementary students as well as high schoolers, The sites has lessons, other resources and video tutorials in the Help page.
Boolean Primer Introduces Boolean expressions through Venn diagrams.
The Boolean Machine Interactive Venn diagrams to teach basic Boolean terms.
Boolean I: A review of Boolean expressions, Venn diagrams, and Synonyms
Boolean II: More Boolean practice
Boolean Worksheets for elementary school students
Boolean starter sheet
Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3
Athenir. it is a search tool. When you enter a search term on Athenir you will get results from Yahoo along with a graphic of related search terms.
Visual Search Engines
Spezify
New visual search engine that collects search results in different media formats (e.g. definitions, images, Flickr photos, quotes, wikipedia articles), arranges them on a desktop and can be dragged around as an (almost) infinite collage.
Kiddle ( K- 4) searches are handpicked and checked by Kiddle editors or filtered by Google safe search. Most search results contain a thumbnail, to makes it easier to scan results and help students who need visual clues as they are searching.
Middlespot - Innovative website for social bookmarking that allows users to collect sites in a visual way.
Education Eye - Fun site for brainstorming with this visual search engine.
Iris.ia lets you paste the url address of any academic paper or TED Talk and then, in return, it provides you with a free interactive mosaic of related research papers.
Snappy Words is a visual dictionary and thesaurus. Enter any word or phrase into the Snappy Words search box and it will create a web of related words, phrases, and definitions. Hover your cursor over any word or phrase in the web to read its definition. Click and drag any node to explore other branches of the web. Double click on a node and it will generate new web branches
PearlTree - concept map framework for searching
instaGrok is a type of search engine that finds educational content and retrieves it in multiple formats, including web pages, images, videos and even forums. It filters out non-educational content and profanity, uses crowd sourcing to rate the quality of each search result, displays search results according to grade level difficulty, provides source notes, visualizes concepts in an interactive concept map, updates the concept map as you refine your topic. It also allows curation and tracking of your websites, concepts, student activities, and can generate multiple-choice questions from the search results. Students can use it to create editable research journals ("groks") and the groks will be populated with websites visited and the concepts covered. Teachers can review the students' groks and add comments.
Sub-image search?
Simply put, sub-image search is the process of cropping an image to focus on just the most important part and then conducting a reverse image search for that cropped image. Cropping the image removes any extraneous information that isn't helpful in the reverse image process. For example an example of sub-image search, watch this video. www.freetech4techers.com
KartOO is a visual Meta Search engine - a search engine that searches several other search engines to find the desire results.
Five Ways to Search the News Visually
Wikibrains is a website designed to help you brainstorm in a web format. When you brainstorm on Wikibrains you're also performing a basic Internet search at the same time. To create a brainstorm web on Wikibrains start by entering one word or phrase. When you enter a word you will be prompted to add more words by completing the phrase, "Makes me think off..." Each new word or phrase that you enter will be added to your web. As you enter words on the right side of the screen you will see links to search results about each word.
Springo Kids - A fun visual search engine for kids where results are given in thumbnails.
Sweet search for elem and middle; filtered content sweet search 4 me - K-2
ImageCodr generates properly formatted Creative Commons attributions for images that you find on Flickr. Once you've found a Flickr image that you want to use just paste its URL into the ImageCodr code generator to get a properly formatted image code with Creative Commons attribution.
A Search Engine for Finding Free, Public Domain Images from World-Class Museums
A Visual Dictionary Visually draws links between the entered keyword and definitions /related terms/persons etc
Graph Words is a simple visual thesaurus. To use it just enter a word and a web of related words will appear. You can click on any word in that web to generate another web of words related to the one you clicked on. You can click until you run out of words. Each web can be saved as an image.
Words Like A thesaurus. that works in two ways. You can browse the word clouds or simply enter a word in the search box. Any word that you click on in either the word cloud or in the list generated by your search will lead you to at least one word with a similar meaning. Definitions are provided for every word on Words Like.
New visual search engine that collects search results in different media formats (e.g. definitions, images, Flickr photos, quotes, wikipedia articles), arranges them on a desktop and can be dragged around as an (almost) infinite collage.
Kiddle ( K- 4) searches are handpicked and checked by Kiddle editors or filtered by Google safe search. Most search results contain a thumbnail, to makes it easier to scan results and help students who need visual clues as they are searching.
Middlespot - Innovative website for social bookmarking that allows users to collect sites in a visual way.
Education Eye - Fun site for brainstorming with this visual search engine.
Iris.ia lets you paste the url address of any academic paper or TED Talk and then, in return, it provides you with a free interactive mosaic of related research papers.
Snappy Words is a visual dictionary and thesaurus. Enter any word or phrase into the Snappy Words search box and it will create a web of related words, phrases, and definitions. Hover your cursor over any word or phrase in the web to read its definition. Click and drag any node to explore other branches of the web. Double click on a node and it will generate new web branches
PearlTree - concept map framework for searching
instaGrok is a type of search engine that finds educational content and retrieves it in multiple formats, including web pages, images, videos and even forums. It filters out non-educational content and profanity, uses crowd sourcing to rate the quality of each search result, displays search results according to grade level difficulty, provides source notes, visualizes concepts in an interactive concept map, updates the concept map as you refine your topic. It also allows curation and tracking of your websites, concepts, student activities, and can generate multiple-choice questions from the search results. Students can use it to create editable research journals ("groks") and the groks will be populated with websites visited and the concepts covered. Teachers can review the students' groks and add comments.
Sub-image search?
Simply put, sub-image search is the process of cropping an image to focus on just the most important part and then conducting a reverse image search for that cropped image. Cropping the image removes any extraneous information that isn't helpful in the reverse image process. For example an example of sub-image search, watch this video. www.freetech4techers.com
KartOO is a visual Meta Search engine - a search engine that searches several other search engines to find the desire results.
Five Ways to Search the News Visually
Wikibrains is a website designed to help you brainstorm in a web format. When you brainstorm on Wikibrains you're also performing a basic Internet search at the same time. To create a brainstorm web on Wikibrains start by entering one word or phrase. When you enter a word you will be prompted to add more words by completing the phrase, "Makes me think off..." Each new word or phrase that you enter will be added to your web. As you enter words on the right side of the screen you will see links to search results about each word.
Springo Kids - A fun visual search engine for kids where results are given in thumbnails.
Sweet search for elem and middle; filtered content sweet search 4 me - K-2
ImageCodr generates properly formatted Creative Commons attributions for images that you find on Flickr. Once you've found a Flickr image that you want to use just paste its URL into the ImageCodr code generator to get a properly formatted image code with Creative Commons attribution.
A Search Engine for Finding Free, Public Domain Images from World-Class Museums
A Visual Dictionary Visually draws links between the entered keyword and definitions /related terms/persons etc
Graph Words is a simple visual thesaurus. To use it just enter a word and a web of related words will appear. You can click on any word in that web to generate another web of words related to the one you clicked on. You can click until you run out of words. Each web can be saved as an image.
Words Like A thesaurus. that works in two ways. You can browse the word clouds or simply enter a word in the search box. Any word that you click on in either the word cloud or in the list generated by your search will lead you to at least one word with a similar meaning. Definitions are provided for every word on Words Like.
Student Safe Search Engines
Kidtopia is a Google custom student safe search engine for preschool and elementary students, indexing only educator approved web sites.’
Elicit uses AI to help make research easier.
Kid’s Search Engine is a Safe Search Engine for children. We use Google's Safe Search technology and advanced filtering tools on web content. We offer kid friendly links through our directory, each site is peer reviewed for appropriate content, usefulness and fun.’
Wiki SearchWikis abound on the web. When you search for a special movie character based on a comic book character, you’ll find the bio in an online wiki. Have a question about how to do something? A wiki page articulates the steps. Looking for encyclopedic information about anything? Someone has put it into a wiki Wiki.com searches ALL wikis. That’s a search that yields more than only popular wikis like Wikipedia (the online encyclopedia). This makes it a handy tool because it focuses on wikified data that is often curated like a web directory.
Teach the Children Well is a collection of links to sites carefully selected by a teacher for students as well as their parents and teachers. The site was designed for elementary grades but many of the sites will also be of interest to older students.’
GoGooligans is another kid search engine that provide a number of important features including: use Google index to retrieve results, apply different kinds of filtering features, excludes inappropriate sites and keywords, offers search in over 30 languages and many more.
KidRex is an engaging, safe search engine for students that is powered by Google Custom Search and Google SafeSearch technology. In addition to typical filters applied to searches, the site maintains its own database of inappropriate websites and keywords to further reduce the possibility of inappropriate search returns. The search engine is easy to use and similar to a typical Google search. You simply enter the search term and a list of sites is returned. Inappropriate search terms are returned with an "Oops, try again!" message. Before using the site, be sure to click on the Parents link for a quick overview of how the site works.
This site includes advertising.
Kids Click is owned and run by the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Kent State University. KidsClick! is a web search site designed for kids by librarians - with kid-friendly results!
Wonder is a search tool that goes beyond just searching the internet. Wonder has built a research network of librarians and experienced researchers to help students search the web for high-quality sources, and to encourage curiosity in online learning. When you search in Wonder, the results are contributed by librarians and other experts, filtering out a lot of the garbage that is online. When you do a search, you get some results, a box to enter more information about what you are searching for, and a list of experts that you can choose to get results from.
Kiddle searches are handpicked and checked by Kiddle editors or filtered by Google safe search. Most search results contain a thumbnail, to makes it easier to scan results and help students who need visual clues as they are searching.
DinoSearch - Search the web with this search engine's keyword and key phrase filtering system.
Choosito is a search engine that offers a reading level index for results. You have to register on Choosito even if you just want to use their free product which includes the reading level refinement. video tutorial
PearlTrees http://www.pearltrees.com/ - concept map framework for searching and brainstorming
SweetSearch s operated by a team of research experts, librarians and teachers who evaluated and approve anything that you find on the website. SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. SweetSearch excludes not only obvious spam sites, but also marginal sites that read well, but lack academic or journalistic rigor.
CamFind is a free iOS and Android app that enables you to take a picture of any object and then instantly conduct a web search about it. For example, when I take a picture of my computer bag CamFind instantly starts to search for objects like it as well as web pages about computer bags. I've also used CamFind to take pictures of blocks of text and let CamFind then search for web articles related to the text in my picture.
Applications for Education
One obvious use of CamFind is on field trips or simple walks around your school's neighborhood. Students could use the app to find information about plants while they walk. They could use the app to learn more about a landmark on a field trip.
Another possible use of CamFind is to have students scan passages of text (zoom-in on the page first) and then let CamFind search for related articles. Once they have a list of related articles students could dive deeper by entering search terms into a Google search.
ipl2 is the current iteration of what used to be the Internet Public Library and the Librarians' Internet Index. It is maintained by volunteer librarians and a consortium of colleges. All search results are curated (not pulled from somewhere else), and there are no ads. You can search all resources, or restrict your query to For Kids, For Teens, or "Newspapers & Magazines."
Yippy Clustering search engine. Use to be called Vivisimo. It categories search hits by topics.
Cybraryman Catalogue of Educational WebSites - Educational Web sites for Teachers, Educators, Parents, Students
Blekko - delivers high quality search results and the new thing about this search engine is that it organizes search results into different categories.
Alternatives to Google that will not track your searches and respect your privacy
12 Academic Search Engines search engines that are area or content specific. 60 Seconds Guide to Students Effective Search Techniques now there is this beautiful flowchart about some important search engines to use besides Google
instaGrok is a type of search engine that finds educational content and retrieves it in multiple formats, including web pages, images, videos and even forums. It filters out non-educational content and profanity, uses crowd sourcing to rate the quality of each search result, displays search results according to grade level difficulty, provides source notes, visualizes concepts in an interactive concept map, updates the concept map as you refine your topic. It also allows curation and tracking of your websites, concepts, student activities, and can generate multiple-choice questions from the search results. Students can use it to create editable research journals ("groks") and the groks will be populated with websites visited and the concepts covered. Teachers can review the students' groks and add comments.
Wolfram Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers--
not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.
RefSeek Academic search engine that makes academic information easier to access than typical search engines. Refseek cuts down on the overload of non-academic search results by eliminating sponsored links and commercial search results.
Athenir. it is a search tool. When you enter a search term on Athenir you will get results from Yahoo along with a graphic of related search terms.
Yolink
Free downloadable search tool. Search links and electronic documents through key terms and find content in context with key words highlighted. Collect and share desired content
Quintura
Quintura allows you to enter in a search topic and then presents a split screen with a tag cloud on one half and search results in the other. In this example, a search for “The Sopranos” brings up a cloud with links like “hbo” and “television” on the left, with direct links to web sites on the right. Quintura for Kids
Searchy Pants uses Google Custom search to provide a safe search environment for students. But Searchy Pants offers more than just a simple search engine. You can customize the page on which students search by choosing from a variety of fun background themes
Ixquick When you search with Ixquick search engine, you are searching many popular search engines simultaneously and anonymously. Combined, these engines cover more of the Internet than any one search engine alone.
Verbase is an interesting new search engine that is ad and spam free. Also, Verbase offers a nice viual experience w/ lots of information upon searching. It claims to get "smarter" the more you use it.
Websites Like Websites Like helps you find sites that are similar to your favorites. To find similar sites just enter the url of a like that you like and let Websites Like suggest
WordOntheWire a new search engine that is supposed to keep people in the "know". This engine mainly indexes through Bing, FB, Twitter, and YouTube.
Truth out (as in "outing the truth") sites:
Google Docs New Integrated Research Tool
Retooling Research tools to help you update and revitalize the research process for both you and your students
Alternatives to Google that will not track your searches and respect your privacy
Rutgers' Riot is an animated research tutorial. It plays like a five part animated movie. Each part of the movie features characters explaining an aspect of the research process. The five parts are selecting a topic, finding sources, choosing keywords, identifying citations, and evaluating sources. There are text documents available to accompany the videos.
Rutgers' animated research tutorial could be a good resource for introducing or refreshing research techniques in a clear and simple way
Kidtopia is a Google custom student safe search engine for preschool and elementary students, indexing only educator approved web sites.’
Elicit uses AI to help make research easier.
Kid’s Search Engine is a Safe Search Engine for children. We use Google's Safe Search technology and advanced filtering tools on web content. We offer kid friendly links through our directory, each site is peer reviewed for appropriate content, usefulness and fun.’
Wiki SearchWikis abound on the web. When you search for a special movie character based on a comic book character, you’ll find the bio in an online wiki. Have a question about how to do something? A wiki page articulates the steps. Looking for encyclopedic information about anything? Someone has put it into a wiki Wiki.com searches ALL wikis. That’s a search that yields more than only popular wikis like Wikipedia (the online encyclopedia). This makes it a handy tool because it focuses on wikified data that is often curated like a web directory.
Teach the Children Well is a collection of links to sites carefully selected by a teacher for students as well as their parents and teachers. The site was designed for elementary grades but many of the sites will also be of interest to older students.’
GoGooligans is another kid search engine that provide a number of important features including: use Google index to retrieve results, apply different kinds of filtering features, excludes inappropriate sites and keywords, offers search in over 30 languages and many more.
KidRex is an engaging, safe search engine for students that is powered by Google Custom Search and Google SafeSearch technology. In addition to typical filters applied to searches, the site maintains its own database of inappropriate websites and keywords to further reduce the possibility of inappropriate search returns. The search engine is easy to use and similar to a typical Google search. You simply enter the search term and a list of sites is returned. Inappropriate search terms are returned with an "Oops, try again!" message. Before using the site, be sure to click on the Parents link for a quick overview of how the site works.
This site includes advertising.
Kids Click is owned and run by the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Kent State University. KidsClick! is a web search site designed for kids by librarians - with kid-friendly results!
Wonder is a search tool that goes beyond just searching the internet. Wonder has built a research network of librarians and experienced researchers to help students search the web for high-quality sources, and to encourage curiosity in online learning. When you search in Wonder, the results are contributed by librarians and other experts, filtering out a lot of the garbage that is online. When you do a search, you get some results, a box to enter more information about what you are searching for, and a list of experts that you can choose to get results from.
Kiddle searches are handpicked and checked by Kiddle editors or filtered by Google safe search. Most search results contain a thumbnail, to makes it easier to scan results and help students who need visual clues as they are searching.
DinoSearch - Search the web with this search engine's keyword and key phrase filtering system.
Choosito is a search engine that offers a reading level index for results. You have to register on Choosito even if you just want to use their free product which includes the reading level refinement. video tutorial
PearlTrees http://www.pearltrees.com/ - concept map framework for searching and brainstorming
SweetSearch s operated by a team of research experts, librarians and teachers who evaluated and approve anything that you find on the website. SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. SweetSearch excludes not only obvious spam sites, but also marginal sites that read well, but lack academic or journalistic rigor.
CamFind is a free iOS and Android app that enables you to take a picture of any object and then instantly conduct a web search about it. For example, when I take a picture of my computer bag CamFind instantly starts to search for objects like it as well as web pages about computer bags. I've also used CamFind to take pictures of blocks of text and let CamFind then search for web articles related to the text in my picture.
Applications for Education
One obvious use of CamFind is on field trips or simple walks around your school's neighborhood. Students could use the app to find information about plants while they walk. They could use the app to learn more about a landmark on a field trip.
Another possible use of CamFind is to have students scan passages of text (zoom-in on the page first) and then let CamFind search for related articles. Once they have a list of related articles students could dive deeper by entering search terms into a Google search.
ipl2 is the current iteration of what used to be the Internet Public Library and the Librarians' Internet Index. It is maintained by volunteer librarians and a consortium of colleges. All search results are curated (not pulled from somewhere else), and there are no ads. You can search all resources, or restrict your query to For Kids, For Teens, or "Newspapers & Magazines."
Yippy Clustering search engine. Use to be called Vivisimo. It categories search hits by topics.
Cybraryman Catalogue of Educational WebSites - Educational Web sites for Teachers, Educators, Parents, Students
Blekko - delivers high quality search results and the new thing about this search engine is that it organizes search results into different categories.
Alternatives to Google that will not track your searches and respect your privacy
12 Academic Search Engines search engines that are area or content specific. 60 Seconds Guide to Students Effective Search Techniques now there is this beautiful flowchart about some important search engines to use besides Google
instaGrok is a type of search engine that finds educational content and retrieves it in multiple formats, including web pages, images, videos and even forums. It filters out non-educational content and profanity, uses crowd sourcing to rate the quality of each search result, displays search results according to grade level difficulty, provides source notes, visualizes concepts in an interactive concept map, updates the concept map as you refine your topic. It also allows curation and tracking of your websites, concepts, student activities, and can generate multiple-choice questions from the search results. Students can use it to create editable research journals ("groks") and the groks will be populated with websites visited and the concepts covered. Teachers can review the students' groks and add comments.
Wolfram Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers--
not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.
RefSeek Academic search engine that makes academic information easier to access than typical search engines. Refseek cuts down on the overload of non-academic search results by eliminating sponsored links and commercial search results.
Athenir. it is a search tool. When you enter a search term on Athenir you will get results from Yahoo along with a graphic of related search terms.
Yolink
Free downloadable search tool. Search links and electronic documents through key terms and find content in context with key words highlighted. Collect and share desired content
Quintura
Quintura allows you to enter in a search topic and then presents a split screen with a tag cloud on one half and search results in the other. In this example, a search for “The Sopranos” brings up a cloud with links like “hbo” and “television” on the left, with direct links to web sites on the right. Quintura for Kids
Searchy Pants uses Google Custom search to provide a safe search environment for students. But Searchy Pants offers more than just a simple search engine. You can customize the page on which students search by choosing from a variety of fun background themes
Ixquick When you search with Ixquick search engine, you are searching many popular search engines simultaneously and anonymously. Combined, these engines cover more of the Internet than any one search engine alone.
Verbase is an interesting new search engine that is ad and spam free. Also, Verbase offers a nice viual experience w/ lots of information upon searching. It claims to get "smarter" the more you use it.
Websites Like Websites Like helps you find sites that are similar to your favorites. To find similar sites just enter the url of a like that you like and let Websites Like suggest
WordOntheWire a new search engine that is supposed to keep people in the "know". This engine mainly indexes through Bing, FB, Twitter, and YouTube.
Truth out (as in "outing the truth") sites:
- Factcheck. A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
- Snopes. Well regarded fact checking site.
- Urban legends
- Hoax Quiz: Spot the Fakes! from the Urban Legends site.
- The Giant Mutant Cat! from the Urban Legends site.
- How to Report the News, by Charlie Brooker. Hilarious deconstruction of how a news report is put together.
- How to Explain Disinformation
Google Docs New Integrated Research Tool
Retooling Research tools to help you update and revitalize the research process for both you and your students
Alternatives to Google that will not track your searches and respect your privacy
Rutgers' Riot is an animated research tutorial. It plays like a five part animated movie. Each part of the movie features characters explaining an aspect of the research process. The five parts are selecting a topic, finding sources, choosing keywords, identifying citations, and evaluating sources. There are text documents available to accompany the videos.
Rutgers' animated research tutorial could be a good resource for introducing or refreshing research techniques in a clear and simple way
Images
Guide to finding copyright-friendly media for use in classroom projects. (www.freetech4teachers.com )
How to Find Image Metadata www.freetech4teachers..com
Video - How to Find the Image Source in Google Slides www.freetech4teachers.com
Can I Use That image? a PDF guide to use in determining whether or not you can use a picture you've found on the Internet. To accompany that guide and provide some clarifications is a recorded short video presentation in Canva. In this short videoTake a look at the guide to finding media for classroom projects. www.freetech4teachers.com
Reverse Image SearchYou may know about Google’s Reverse Image Search. To access it, you can go to Google Images, then click on the camera icon to bring up a screen like the one below. Then, upload the image you want to find on the web. This is a great way to find images students (or staff) have saved off the internet but failed to cite properly.Another tool you may be unfamiliar with is the TinEye Reverse Image Search. Sporting a fancy robot icon, TinEye assists you in a similar way that Google’s Reverse Image Search does. It also offers a browser add-on for Chrome/Chromium or Firefox browsers.
Teaching Students to Legally Use Images Online
CC Search beta which is an enhanced search tool that you can use to look for CC licensed images. It provides you with helpful filters so you can get precise search results.
Sub-image search?
Simply put, sub-image search is the process of cropping an image to focus on just the most important part and then conducting a reverse image search for that cropped image. Cropping the image removes any extraneous information that isn't helpful in the reverse image process. For example an example of sub-image search, watch this video. www.freetech4techers.com
Cronobook is a website that features a searchable map of historical photographs. The premise of the site is simple and using it is easy. Just head to the site, search for a location, and click on the small images to see them in full size. www.freetech4teachers.com
A Search Engine for Finding Free, Public Domain Images from World-Class Museums
Unsplash is a place to find images that are in the public domain. Unsplash has introduced collections intended for educational uses. Unsplash has added more collections that have great potential for classroom uses. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible.
Search Google for copyright free mages - useful activity included.
Video: 5 Ways to find royalty free images
Public Domain Explained by Common Craft is a video that answers some common questions about the differences between works that are in the public domain and those that are copyrighted. The video also teaches how works end up in the public domain and some tips for finding media that is in the public domain.
PikWizard offers thousands of high quality images that you can download and re-use for free. PikWizard provides clear guidance on how you can use each picture that you find on the site. You will find that guidance posted to the right of any picture that you select from search results. PikWizard also provides clear directions on how to give credit to the photographers whose pictures you use. (Richard Byrne)
9 Alternatives to Google Image Search - PDF Handout
Create your own search engine of royalty free image sites
12 Most Picture Perfect Ways To Ensure You’re Legally Using Online Pho
Photos for Class is a free service that helps students find and cite Creative Commons licensed images. Earlier this month Photos for Class became available to use as an Edmodo app. In the video embedded below I provide a demonstration of how to install Photos for Class. The second half of the video demonstrates a students’ perspective of using Photos for Class within Edmodo.
Video on the following three sites
Openclipart. You can search thousands of images and use any of them for free. Every single image is public domain, so they don’t even require you to give attribution. Though, it still could be a good idea to label public domain images you use as public domain so that others know you did not steal it.
Pixabay.com It has clip art and photographs. Just like Openclipart, images on Pixabay are all published as public domain. You can copy, modify, and distribute these images, all without asking permission and without giving attribution
(skip sponsored images). if login avoid captchas
Photos For Class - Look for classroom-safe photos and images that include author citations and image license terms.
Reshot is a new site that offers free "handpicked" images that you can download to reuse in multimedia projects. The site, like many like it, lets you download images for free. According to Reshot's licensing statement, image attribution isn't required, but it is appreciated. To that end Reshot makes it easy to find and copy the correct image attribution information. Watch video (www.freetech4teachers.com)
Pexels offers over 10,000 free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CCO). This means that you can modify, copy and distribute the photos the way you want. All photos are hand-picked from photos uploaded by users or sourced from free image websites’.
Kaboompics is a photo search engine that allows users to search for and access tons of free stock images. Photos are available for free download in different formats.
Unsplash All photos published on Unsplash can be used for free. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible.’
Negative Space provides high-resolution free stock images for both personal and commercial use. Images are CC0 licensed.
Gratisographyhigh-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects, free of copyright restrictions. Click on an image to download the high-resolution version.
CamFind is a free iOS and Android app that enables you to take a picture of any object and then instantly conduct a web search about it. For example, when I take a picture of my computer bag CamFind instantly starts to search for objects like it as well as web pages about computer bags. I've also used CamFind to take pictures of blocks of text and let CamFind then search for web articles related to the text in my picture.
Applications for Education
One obvious use of CamFind is on field trips or simple walks around your school's neighborhood. Students could use the app to find information about plants while they walk. They could use the app to learn more about a landmark on a field trip.
Another possible use of CamFind is to have students scan passages of text (zoom-in on the page first) and then let CamFind search for related articles. Once they have a list of related articles students could dive deeper by entering search terms into a Google search.
thenounproject.com icons. need to login Click on attribution for free artwork. Downloads as zip file.
Google Images now includes "usage rights." Now instead of having to open the advanced search menu you can just click the "search tools" menu and select "usage rights" without leaving the search results page.
Eight Alternatives to Google Image Search
How to Identify Mysterious Images Online
Joyce Valenza: Copyright-friendly image wiki
Copyright Decision Tool The Copyright Decision Tool helps teachers decide whether they can use print materials, artistic works or audiovisual materials without getting copyright permission.
Free Tiiu Pix is a site maintained by a retired teacher, Tiiu Roiser. The purpose of the site is to provide students with hundreds of free, high resolution images that they can use in their presentations. In addition to the free images Ms. Roiser provides some good advice to students about designing and delivering better PowerPoint presentations. Free Tiiu Pix has a good system of categories and labels that will help students quickly find images that are suitable for their presentations. There are sixteen main categories on the site and dozens of subcategories. The two largest categories are the plants and animals categories.
Every Stock Photo This a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo's license by clicking on the license icon
Morgue File public domain and Creative Commons images with different licensings
How to use Flickr CC Attribution Helper video
Wunderstock Large collections
flickr: The Commons
Duke University: Center for the Study of the Public Domain comic
SIAA: Don't Copy that 2 (School version)
Library of Congress: American Memory Collection
Newspaper Navigator. Newspaper Navigator is an index of 1.5 million images published in newspapers between 1900 and 1963. You can search Newspaper Navigator by keyword and then narrow your results by date and or the U.S. state in which the newspaper was published. There is a highly detailed tutorial on how to use the LOC's Newspaper Navigator right on its search page. www.freetech4teachers.com
Images of American Political History
NOAA Photo Library
Smithsonian Flickr Images
Guide to finding copyright-friendly media for use in classroom projects. (www.freetech4teachers.com )
How to Find Image Metadata www.freetech4teachers..com
Video - How to Find the Image Source in Google Slides www.freetech4teachers.com
Can I Use That image? a PDF guide to use in determining whether or not you can use a picture you've found on the Internet. To accompany that guide and provide some clarifications is a recorded short video presentation in Canva. In this short videoTake a look at the guide to finding media for classroom projects. www.freetech4teachers.com
Reverse Image SearchYou may know about Google’s Reverse Image Search. To access it, you can go to Google Images, then click on the camera icon to bring up a screen like the one below. Then, upload the image you want to find on the web. This is a great way to find images students (or staff) have saved off the internet but failed to cite properly.Another tool you may be unfamiliar with is the TinEye Reverse Image Search. Sporting a fancy robot icon, TinEye assists you in a similar way that Google’s Reverse Image Search does. It also offers a browser add-on for Chrome/Chromium or Firefox browsers.
Teaching Students to Legally Use Images Online
CC Search beta which is an enhanced search tool that you can use to look for CC licensed images. It provides you with helpful filters so you can get precise search results.
Sub-image search?
Simply put, sub-image search is the process of cropping an image to focus on just the most important part and then conducting a reverse image search for that cropped image. Cropping the image removes any extraneous information that isn't helpful in the reverse image process. For example an example of sub-image search, watch this video. www.freetech4techers.com
Cronobook is a website that features a searchable map of historical photographs. The premise of the site is simple and using it is easy. Just head to the site, search for a location, and click on the small images to see them in full size. www.freetech4teachers.com
A Search Engine for Finding Free, Public Domain Images from World-Class Museums
Unsplash is a place to find images that are in the public domain. Unsplash has introduced collections intended for educational uses. Unsplash has added more collections that have great potential for classroom uses. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible.
- Unsplash for Education is comprised of ten curated collections of images for teachers and students to use in their projects. Those ten collections are math & science, art, space, politics & current events, geography, health, history, tech, nature, and a catch-all education collection.www.freetech4teachers.com
Search Google for copyright free mages - useful activity included.
Video: 5 Ways to find royalty free images
Public Domain Explained by Common Craft is a video that answers some common questions about the differences between works that are in the public domain and those that are copyrighted. The video also teaches how works end up in the public domain and some tips for finding media that is in the public domain.
PikWizard offers thousands of high quality images that you can download and re-use for free. PikWizard provides clear guidance on how you can use each picture that you find on the site. You will find that guidance posted to the right of any picture that you select from search results. PikWizard also provides clear directions on how to give credit to the photographers whose pictures you use. (Richard Byrne)
9 Alternatives to Google Image Search - PDF Handout
Create your own search engine of royalty free image sites
12 Most Picture Perfect Ways To Ensure You’re Legally Using Online Pho
Photos for Class is a free service that helps students find and cite Creative Commons licensed images. Earlier this month Photos for Class became available to use as an Edmodo app. In the video embedded below I provide a demonstration of how to install Photos for Class. The second half of the video demonstrates a students’ perspective of using Photos for Class within Edmodo.
Video on the following three sites
Openclipart. You can search thousands of images and use any of them for free. Every single image is public domain, so they don’t even require you to give attribution. Though, it still could be a good idea to label public domain images you use as public domain so that others know you did not steal it.
Pixabay.com It has clip art and photographs. Just like Openclipart, images on Pixabay are all published as public domain. You can copy, modify, and distribute these images, all without asking permission and without giving attribution
(skip sponsored images). if login avoid captchas
Photos For Class - Look for classroom-safe photos and images that include author citations and image license terms.
Reshot is a new site that offers free "handpicked" images that you can download to reuse in multimedia projects. The site, like many like it, lets you download images for free. According to Reshot's licensing statement, image attribution isn't required, but it is appreciated. To that end Reshot makes it easy to find and copy the correct image attribution information. Watch video (www.freetech4teachers.com)
Pexels offers over 10,000 free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CCO). This means that you can modify, copy and distribute the photos the way you want. All photos are hand-picked from photos uploaded by users or sourced from free image websites’.
Kaboompics is a photo search engine that allows users to search for and access tons of free stock images. Photos are available for free download in different formats.
Unsplash All photos published on Unsplash can be used for free. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible.’
Negative Space provides high-resolution free stock images for both personal and commercial use. Images are CC0 licensed.
Gratisographyhigh-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects, free of copyright restrictions. Click on an image to download the high-resolution version.
CamFind is a free iOS and Android app that enables you to take a picture of any object and then instantly conduct a web search about it. For example, when I take a picture of my computer bag CamFind instantly starts to search for objects like it as well as web pages about computer bags. I've also used CamFind to take pictures of blocks of text and let CamFind then search for web articles related to the text in my picture.
Applications for Education
One obvious use of CamFind is on field trips or simple walks around your school's neighborhood. Students could use the app to find information about plants while they walk. They could use the app to learn more about a landmark on a field trip.
Another possible use of CamFind is to have students scan passages of text (zoom-in on the page first) and then let CamFind search for related articles. Once they have a list of related articles students could dive deeper by entering search terms into a Google search.
thenounproject.com icons. need to login Click on attribution for free artwork. Downloads as zip file.
Google Images now includes "usage rights." Now instead of having to open the advanced search menu you can just click the "search tools" menu and select "usage rights" without leaving the search results page.
Eight Alternatives to Google Image Search
How to Identify Mysterious Images Online
Joyce Valenza: Copyright-friendly image wiki
Copyright Decision Tool The Copyright Decision Tool helps teachers decide whether they can use print materials, artistic works or audiovisual materials without getting copyright permission.
Free Tiiu Pix is a site maintained by a retired teacher, Tiiu Roiser. The purpose of the site is to provide students with hundreds of free, high resolution images that they can use in their presentations. In addition to the free images Ms. Roiser provides some good advice to students about designing and delivering better PowerPoint presentations. Free Tiiu Pix has a good system of categories and labels that will help students quickly find images that are suitable for their presentations. There are sixteen main categories on the site and dozens of subcategories. The two largest categories are the plants and animals categories.
Every Stock Photo This a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo's license by clicking on the license icon
Morgue File public domain and Creative Commons images with different licensings
How to use Flickr CC Attribution Helper video
Wunderstock Large collections
flickr: The Commons
Duke University: Center for the Study of the Public Domain comic
SIAA: Don't Copy that 2 (School version)
Library of Congress: American Memory Collection
Newspaper Navigator. Newspaper Navigator is an index of 1.5 million images published in newspapers between 1900 and 1963. You can search Newspaper Navigator by keyword and then narrow your results by date and or the U.S. state in which the newspaper was published. There is a highly detailed tutorial on how to use the LOC's Newspaper Navigator right on its search page. www.freetech4teachers.com
Images of American Political History
NOAA Photo Library
Smithsonian Flickr Images
Copyright Free Music and Sound Effects
Guide to finding copyright-friendly media for use in classroom projects. (www.freetech4teachers.com )
Find SoundsNeed a quick way to find sounds for use in a podcast or as part of a presentation? FindSounds takes the trouble out of locating a repository of copyright-fee sounds. Use it to find sounds for anything from a dog barking to a blue whale. Besides a single search box you can use “à la Google”, you can find sounds by type.
Musgle? It’s a search engine that enables you to find music. Type the title of the sound effect or music you want to find (e.g. Beethoven, Mozart) and wait for it to pop up.
Music
Free Music Archive free music for multimedia projects. The Free Music Archive provides free, high-quality, music in a wide range of genres. The content on Free Music Archive is used under various creative commons licenses. Anyone can download music from FMA for use in podcasts, videos, and other digital presentation formats. Downloading music from FMA does not require any kind of registration. This video demonstrates how to find and download free music from the Free Music Archive. www.freetech4teachers.com
On YouTube You Can Now Find Free Music to Legally Download and Re-use For the last couple of years Vimeo has offered free music to download and re-use in your video projects. Now YouTube is offering the same thing through the YouTube Audio Library.
Sound effect
Taming the Wild Wiki, by the Media Awareness Network. Lesson plan for grades 7 to 9. From the website: "Students are introduced to Wikipedia, the user-edited online encyclopedia, and given an overview of its strengths and weaknesses as a research source. They are taught how to evaluate the reliability of a Wikipedia article and then attempt to improve an existing article."
Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica, by Daniel Terdiman, staff writer (CNET, 12/15/2005). From the article: "Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature."
Guide to finding copyright-friendly media for use in classroom projects. (www.freetech4teachers.com )
Find SoundsNeed a quick way to find sounds for use in a podcast or as part of a presentation? FindSounds takes the trouble out of locating a repository of copyright-fee sounds. Use it to find sounds for anything from a dog barking to a blue whale. Besides a single search box you can use “à la Google”, you can find sounds by type.
Musgle? It’s a search engine that enables you to find music. Type the title of the sound effect or music you want to find (e.g. Beethoven, Mozart) and wait for it to pop up.
Music
Free Music Archive free music for multimedia projects. The Free Music Archive provides free, high-quality, music in a wide range of genres. The content on Free Music Archive is used under various creative commons licenses. Anyone can download music from FMA for use in podcasts, videos, and other digital presentation formats. Downloading music from FMA does not require any kind of registration. This video demonstrates how to find and download free music from the Free Music Archive. www.freetech4teachers.com
On YouTube You Can Now Find Free Music to Legally Download and Re-use For the last couple of years Vimeo has offered free music to download and re-use in your video projects. Now YouTube is offering the same thing through the YouTube Audio Library.
Sound effect
Taming the Wild Wiki, by the Media Awareness Network. Lesson plan for grades 7 to 9. From the website: "Students are introduced to Wikipedia, the user-edited online encyclopedia, and given an overview of its strengths and weaknesses as a research source. They are taught how to evaluate the reliability of a Wikipedia article and then attempt to improve an existing article."
Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica, by Daniel Terdiman, staff writer (CNET, 12/15/2005). From the article: "Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature."
Academic Research
Video that could help some students understand why they need to cite the sources of their information. The short video seems to be designed for an elementary school audience although some of the points in the video will require you to clarify and deepen the explanations.
LITMAPS. This has to be the best academic tool for finding references and organizing them that I have ever found. Here is a recent quite detailed training webinar from the Litmaps
Talk To Books You type a question or a statement into the search bar (obviously, it’s Google!) and in return, you’ll get quotes from inside of books that seemingly answer your questions or pertain to your sentence.
Elicit uses AI to help make research easier.
Get The Research is a fairly small search engine that is focused on helping people find academic articles. A search on Get The Research will yield a small summary of the searched topic and a list of published academic articles. The articles in the search results will be a mix of open-access articles and paywalled articles. You can filter results to show only open-access articles. www.freetech4teachers.com
Tools for Academic Research
7 Steps to Carry Out a Research Plan Using Digital Tools "Popular infographics we published last year featuring important web tools and apps to help you in each of the 7 steps of the research process. As we have stated elsewhere, this is only 'a tentative sketch of what we think are the seven important steps of a research plan. For each of these stages we featured a short collection of web tools to help you carry it out. ' We hope you find it helpful."
Semantic Scholar is a good academic search engine that allows you to search millions of scholarly articles for academic content relevant to your research topic. Unlike other search engines, Semantic Scholar combines the power of artificial Intelligence, machine learning, language processing with semantic analytic search enabling users to get more accurate search results.
Get The Research is a fairly small search engine that is focused on helping people find academic articles. A search on Get The Research will yield a small summary of the searched topic and a list of published academic articles. The articles in the search results will be a mix of open-access articles and paywalled articles. You can filter results to show only open-access articles. www.freetech4teachers.com
Phrasebank is a resource for research students and anybody else interested in honing their academic writing style. Phrasebank, provided by the University of Manchester, offers a wide variety of academic phrases to use in your research papers. These cover phrases used in the different parts of the research process including phrases to help you introduce novel work, refer to sources, describe methods, report results, discuss findings, and write conclusions. Besides academic phrases, the site also provides explanations of each of the sections of the research process. For instance, students will get to know what the discussion part means in a dissertation and how it should be structured. Similarly, they will access tips on how to refer to sources, how to describe methods they used in their research, and how to write the finding section in their research article.
Connected Papers is a tool that basically creates visual “webs” of cited sources in academic papers. Simply enter a paper of interest and we will generate a graph that shows that section of paper-space and its interconnections.
Unpaywall a web browser extension that links users directly to free full-text versions of research articles
Review of Citation Sites some are listed below
VirtualLRC "The mission of the Virtual Learning Resources Center is to index thousands of the best academic information websites, selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide, in order to provide to students and teachers current, valid information for school and university academic projects!"
Science Research Papers Annotated With Teaching Resources
Microsoft Academic (MA) Unlike mainstream search engines that are keyword-based, MA uses a different search algorithm, it uses what is known as semantic inference to identify your intent and consequently provide you with relevant search results. Here is how MA articulates this difference: "In a keyword-based search engine, suggestions are a convenient feature, but in a semantic search engine like MA they play the important role of an intelligent assistant. Imagine this assistant engaging in a dialogue with you in order to understand your needs better and help you accomplish your search goal more efficiently. By understanding how papers refer to various entities, MA has learned commonly used acronyms and allowed them in query expressions. For the best search results, please wait for MA's suggestions and click them to perform your search".
I Lazy to Read is a web application that auto-summarizes any online post into few sentences (five sentences). We have been experimenting with it for sometime now and found it really helpful. In sample tests the auto-generated summaries are highly relevant and are proved to capture the main ideas of the article. I Lazy to Read, as its name indicate, is a great help particularly in those times when you are too busy to read a whole article or a report just to find out that it is not relevant. You can also use it to save time reading news reports, blog posts and many more.
JURN "Search millions of free academic articles, chapter and theses."
Dimensions is a search engine focused on helping users discover research publications including clinical study reports. To help users get the whole picture, Dimensions will provide information about the grants that funded a study and report. You can filter Dimensions search results to show only open-access papers, to show only papers from a particular year, and according to field of research. ( freetech4teachers.com )
Common Craft has a new video that addresses that question and more. Citations and Citing Your Work teaches students about the differences between in-text and full citations and how they work together.
Iris.ia lets you paste the url address of any academic paper or TED Talk and then, in return, it provides you with a free interactive mosaic of related research papers.
Webjets is an information management tool. Webjets provides you with an intuitive platform where you can collect, save and organize digital content. Besides content curation, you can also use Webjets to record your notes, set goals, remember tasks, create mind maps, and share your digital libraries with others. You can also utilize it to collaborate with others in creating digital boards. Besides content curation, you can also use Webjets to record your notes, set goals, remember tasks, create mind maps, and share your digital libraries with others. You can also utilize it to collaborate with others in creating digital boards.
Schrock: MLA Citations for Grades 1-6
Schrock: Research and Style Guide for Grades 7-12 (2016)
Kathy Schrock: Parts of a Web page identified for citing
How to Cite Sources in Google Docs
3 Ways A Plagiarism Checker Can Help Students Can a plagiarism checker actually help students? This type of tool can help student writers as they strengthen their craft and write better.
Using Originality Reports in Google Classroom - How you and your students can check their writing for possible plagiarism and needed citations. With Originality Reports in Google Classroom, You can compare their written work against billions of webpages and millions of books to identify possible areas of plagiarism or passages that may need proper citation. This can help students catch problems before they submit their work, and allow you to easily check student writing while grading.
An Innovative Way to Deal With PlagiarismGoogle Docs plagiarism checker add-on that enables users to check their texts directly in their writing environment, without leaving Google Docs.
Free Online Plagiarism Checker FreePlagiarismChecker.pro is plagiarism scanner that detects plagiarism in your text. [This] free checking engine will scan your text and tell you if it contains duplicate content.
Plagiarism Detector: With this service, you can check up to 1,000 words for free and 540,000+ words with one of their “pro” accounts. They also offer customizable accounts.
SmallSEOTools: Check up to 1,000 words for free and 510,000+ with a “pro” account. Like Plagiarism Detector, you can customize your account with more or fewer features and words.
OuiWrite OW is an innovative site that students use to create a paper. While they are typing their paper OQ automatically searches for content they are typing about and find them sources. These sources can then be cited or added as a bibliography automatically. Also, OuiWrite has other great features such as a: genius button (w/ a very cool counter point feature), built in dictionary/thesaurus, as well as the ability to check for plagiarism. Finally, OuiWrite has built in templates for creating different types of papers and bibliographies, as well as saving everything on the web
Jurn Search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses.
Microsoft Academic Research Semantic search provides you with highly relevant search results from continually refreshed and extensive academic content from over 120 million publications.
Academia shared research papers
Seven Free Tools That Help Students Format Bibliographies
How to Quickly Create a Bibliography in Word www.freetech4teachers.comCite It In is another in a long list of tools that are designed to help students properly format research citations. Cite It In provides students with templates for creating inline and bibliography citations in APA, MLA, and Chicago style.
Students Guide to Citing APA Resources
Typeset is a website for research students and academics. It is an auto-formatting software that helps researchers convert their manuscripts into the journal format of their choice. Typeset currently hosts over 30,000 journal formats, which includes top journals from top publishers, like IEEE, Wiley and others. This helps them save formatting time and ensure 100% compliance to journal guidelines. If you're currently working on a manuscript / research paper.
Science Direct scientific, technical, and medical research
Paperrater FREE This is how it works –students come here and enter their text into the special box. Then, the machine starts analyzing it and highlights the errors. There are several aspects checked – grammar, spelling, punctuation. Then, the tool indicates possible plagiarism cases and also offers improvement suggestions. There is also a Writing Suggestion section, for helping students improve their writing style, the word choice, the vocabulary and more.
Writinghouse is an excellent free bibliography and citation maker. It allows you to automatically generate citations in various referencing styles including: MLA, APA, Chicago, and Harvard. We have been experimenting with it for awhile and found it really worth the shout-out here. Besides the citation and bibliography features, Writinghouse also offers other interesting tools to help students with their writing process. For instance, the Word Counter is a great way to keep track of the number of words you have written in an essay. There is also a section in this website featuring some good resources to help you learn more about the concept of bibliography and how to create one using different styles.
Citation Machine automatically generates citations in MLA, APA and more
Easily add and manage citations in Google Docs.
Bibcitation also just came out. Here’s a video about it: Bibcitation's New Chrome Extension Makes It Easy to Create Citations www.freetech4techers.com
Formatically's instant citation tool just paste the URL of the page that you want to cite into the instant citation tool. Once pasted into the tool you can choose the format that you want to use for your citation. If there is an error in the citation, you can correct it by clicking the edit icon at the end of the written citation. The system works the same way for books except that rather than entering a web page URL you enter a book title. Watch the video embedded below to learn more about Formatically's instant citation tool.video Free Technology for Teachers
LiquidText IOS app to help you enhance your reading. It provides you with a virtual workspace where you can manage, organize and work on your documents. More specifically, it lets you import documents (compatible with Word, PDF, and PowerPoint) and web pages right into your workspace, you can exact excerpts and key facts from your documents and draw or add your own notes. You can also create mind maps, connect different documents and jot down comments on multiple pages at once. LiquidText is especially helpful for research students. LiquidText is free but a single in-app purchase is required if you want to put several documents in one project, use inkling, and search across document
CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.
Search Engines for Social Science Content Areas
Academic Search Engines for Educators
Below is a collection of some handy academic search engines teachers and educators can use to search for and find a wide variety of academic articles, journals, documents and theses. Some of these search engines are subject focused and others are generic.
Candy You can use it to insert quotations from any webpage right into the document they are working on. It can also be used to generate reference information to data in a document. Another great feature from Candy is Storylines. Anything you collect or clip from online articles can be arranged into storylines with as many idea threads as you want. To use Candy, you need to register with a valid email address. Once registered, all you Candys will be stored in the site’s server so you can access them across different devices. Watch the video
Mendeley can be used as a searchable library for students to store and access annotations. Mendeley video tutorial
Google Alerts lets you see up-to-the-second social updates, news articles and blog posts about hot topics around the world. refine and understand your results. Geographic refinements to find updates and news in a region you specify, and a conversations view that makes it easy to follow a discussion on the real-time web. Also added “Updates” content to Google Alerts, making it easier to stay informed about the topics you choose. video tutorial
Citefast
Citefast is an easy to use web tool for creating citations. Students can utilize it to generate citations in different formats: APA (6th edition), MAL (7th edition), or Chicago (16th edition). The site provides a wide variety of features citation creation super easy and all for free. Some of these features include: automatic look up of journals, books and webpages; easy cut and paste and exporting to MS Word; In-text citation generator with guide and many more.
Mozgi Research Tool This is a web tool and Chrome and Firefox extension that helps you easily save and and gather data from web pages. You can drag and drop selected text, images, videos or links; take screenshots; organize your data and when you are done you can share it with your colleagues. Mozgi does not require any registration.
7 Step to Do Academic Research Using Digital Technologies Research is a process. It is a continuum of stages that together make up a research plan. Below is a tentative sketch of what we think are the seven important steps of a research plan. For each of these stages we featured a short collection of web tools to help you carry it out. We have also created a poster capturing the steps and tools we covered here. You can download, share and use the poster the way you want as long as you use it for educational purposes.
Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. Whether you're searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from your university library catalog, Zotero has you covered with support for thousands of sites.
Mendeley Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Here is what you can do with Mendeley:
🎯How to Create Citations and Bibliographies in Google Docs - No Add-ons Required Google added an updated citation tool to Google Docs that makes the Easy Bib add-on redundant. With the latest update to Google Docs you can now create MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations directly in Google Docs without the need for a third-party add-on. You'll find the new citation feature in the tools drop-down menu in Google Docs. video www.freetech4teacher.com
How to Quickly Create a Bibliography in Word www.freetech4teachers.comFormatically's instant citation tool just paste the URL of the page that you want to cite into the instant citation tool. Once pasted into the tool you can choose the format that you want to use for your citation. If there is an error in the citation, you can correct it by clicking the edit icon at the end of the written citation. The system works the same way for books except that rather than entering a web page URL you enter a book title. Watch the video embedded below to learn more about Formatically's instant citation tool.video Free Technology for Teachers
Citeulike a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references.Some of its features include:
In-depth Articles a new feature where sometimes at the bottom of the first page of search results you will see a block of sites titled In-depth Articles.
CamFind is a free iOS and Android app that enables you to take a picture of any object and then instantly conduct a web search about it. For example, when I take a picture of my computer bag CamFind instantly starts to search for objects like it as well as web pages about computer bags. I've also used CamFind to take pictures of blocks of text and let CamFind then search for web articles related to the text in my picture.
Applications for Education
One obvious use of CamFind is on field trips or simple walks around your school's neighborhood. Students could use the app to find information about plants while they walk. They could use the app to learn more about a landmark on a field trip.
Another possible use of CamFind is to have students scan passages of text (zoom-in on the page first) and then let CamFind search for related articles. Once they have a list of related articles students could dive deeper by entering search terms into a Google search.
Checklist for Evaluating Information Sources
Is It Reliable? Activity
Google Date Range Filter - Click on Tools, then Anytime drop-down and chhose custome range.
Google Search Lessons
Google News for for historical news papers tool for finding resources for current events around the world. Google News is also great for finding old newspapers for use in your instruction. You will find directions at this site for accessing historical newspapers. How to Search Google's Scanned Newspaper Archive
Teaching with Historical Newspapers LOC Webinar 30 min.
Get a Summary of Information About Sites Google has recently added a potentially helpful new aspect to the search results page. Now when you view your search results page you will see the titles of some sites in gray text next to the URL. When you see that gray text click the little drop-down menu to see a brief summary about the owner of the site.
Right now the new summary tool doesn't appear next to every result. In my testing it seems to only appear next to large, well-known sites. In the future it could be a good tool for helping students understand who is behind a website and account for that in evaluating the quality of a site.
WWW Virtual Library System: International Affairs Resources is one section of the Virtual Library System. This site has over 2000 carefully selected links which have been annotated. These links are divided into 34 international affairs categories such as nongovernmental organizations, comparative and international education, and scholarly papers and articles.
Wonder is a search tool that goes beyond just searching the internet. Wonder has built a research network of librarians and experienced researchers to help students search the web for high-quality sources, and to encourage curiosity in online learning. When you search in Wonder, the results are contributed by librarians and other experts, filtering out a lot of the garbage that is online. When you do a search, you get some results, a box to enter more information about what you are searching for, and a list of experts that you can choose to get results from.
Google Books is one of the research tools that Google offers, but a lot of students overlook. Google Books can be a good place for students to look for books and look within books that can help them with their research projects. This short guide and this video provide updated directions
Seven Tools to Make Research Paper Writing Easier
Google Scholar indexes scholarly, peer-reviewed academic papers, journals, theses, books, and court opinions. These are materials that students usually won't find through Google.com, Bing, or Yahoo search. Just they can do for Google.com searches, students can create Google Scholar alerts. Google Scholar alerts notify students when new materials related to their search queries appear on Google Scholar. Guide for alerts is particularly useful for student researchers who are doing research around a topic area and want to have access to the latest and recent output about it. Creating an alert on Google Scholar will enable you to receive emails with updates and new releases about your alert.
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Here is what you can do with Mendeley:
Google News Newspaper archive. In the Google News Newspaper archive you can search for a specific newspaper, search for article titles, or as demonstrated below you can search for a topic.
Evernote Allows you to remember and act upon ideas, projects and experiences across all the computers, phones and tablets you use.
Jog The Web
This tool will enable you to create 'web tours' with embedded comments. The websites you choose appear with your comments below along with navigation. AND the websites you choose remain active so your students can use the links based on your directions and then go right to the next stop you chose.
Gooru is a place to find and or create collections of educational videos, texts, and images. Gooru's new interface includes the option to search for materials according to ELA Common Core standards. Another new feature of the revamped Gooru interface is dragging and dropping items from your search results to your collections. Now you can also create quizzes to go along with each of your collections.
Scrible is a free service offering a nice set of tools for highlighting, annotating, and bookmarking webpages. Scrible offers browser bookmarklets for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer. With the Scrible bookmarklet installed, anytime you're on a page just click the bookmarklet to launch a menu of bookmarking tools. The Scrible tool set includes highlighters, sticky notes, and font change tools. When you annotate and bookmark a page in Scrible it is saved as it appeared to you when you were done altering it. And as you would expect from a web-based bookmarking tool, you can share your bookmarked pages with others. Students can get a free Scrible account that has double the storage capacity of the standard free account.
Scrible recently added an options for formatting bibliographies as you bookmark. Scrible also has a new feature that allows you to compile your article clippings into one package.
Applications for Education
Tools like Scrible are excellent for students to use when they're conducting online research. The benefit of using a tool like Scrible is that students can take notes on their bookmarks and bookmark only the parts of a website that they need to reference in their reports. Saving bookmarks in this manner saves time when you go back to visit a site because you'll immediately see what it was that promoted you to bookmark it in the first place.
12 Academic Search Engines search engines that are area or content specific. 60 Seconds Guide to Students Effective Search Techniques now there is this beautiful flowchart about some important search engines to use besides Google
RefSeek Academic search engine that makes academic information easier to access than typical search engines. Refseek cuts down on the overload of non-academic search results by eliminating sponsored links and commercial search results.
Mashpedia is an interesting service that matches reference articles from Wikipedia to materials from YouTube and news websites. The purpose of drawing materials from multiple sources is to provide users with a comprehensive view of news stories and reference topics.
Talk Miner is a tool for searching the contents of webinars, webcasts, and video lectures. Talk Miner searches the slides, images, and text within videos to take you to the scenes that match your search query. video
The Best Websites for Finding Academic Books and Journals
Rutgers' Riot is an animated research tutorial. It plays like a five part animated movie. Each part of the movie features characters explaining an aspect of the research process. The five parts are selecting a topic, finding sources, choosing keywords, identifying citations, and evaluating sources. There are text documents available to accompany the videos.
Rutgers' animated research tutorial could be a good resource for introducing or refreshing research techniques in a clear and simple way.
Retooling Research tools to help you update and revitalize the research process for both you and your students
LITMAPS. This has to be the best academic tool for finding references and organizing them that I have ever found. Here is a recent quite detailed training webinar from the Litmaps
Talk To Books You type a question or a statement into the search bar (obviously, it’s Google!) and in return, you’ll get quotes from inside of books that seemingly answer your questions or pertain to your sentence.
Elicit uses AI to help make research easier.
Get The Research is a fairly small search engine that is focused on helping people find academic articles. A search on Get The Research will yield a small summary of the searched topic and a list of published academic articles. The articles in the search results will be a mix of open-access articles and paywalled articles. You can filter results to show only open-access articles. www.freetech4teachers.com
Tools for Academic Research
7 Steps to Carry Out a Research Plan Using Digital Tools "Popular infographics we published last year featuring important web tools and apps to help you in each of the 7 steps of the research process. As we have stated elsewhere, this is only 'a tentative sketch of what we think are the seven important steps of a research plan. For each of these stages we featured a short collection of web tools to help you carry it out. ' We hope you find it helpful."
Semantic Scholar is a good academic search engine that allows you to search millions of scholarly articles for academic content relevant to your research topic. Unlike other search engines, Semantic Scholar combines the power of artificial Intelligence, machine learning, language processing with semantic analytic search enabling users to get more accurate search results.
Get The Research is a fairly small search engine that is focused on helping people find academic articles. A search on Get The Research will yield a small summary of the searched topic and a list of published academic articles. The articles in the search results will be a mix of open-access articles and paywalled articles. You can filter results to show only open-access articles. www.freetech4teachers.com
Phrasebank is a resource for research students and anybody else interested in honing their academic writing style. Phrasebank, provided by the University of Manchester, offers a wide variety of academic phrases to use in your research papers. These cover phrases used in the different parts of the research process including phrases to help you introduce novel work, refer to sources, describe methods, report results, discuss findings, and write conclusions. Besides academic phrases, the site also provides explanations of each of the sections of the research process. For instance, students will get to know what the discussion part means in a dissertation and how it should be structured. Similarly, they will access tips on how to refer to sources, how to describe methods they used in their research, and how to write the finding section in their research article.
Connected Papers is a tool that basically creates visual “webs” of cited sources in academic papers. Simply enter a paper of interest and we will generate a graph that shows that section of paper-space and its interconnections.
Unpaywall a web browser extension that links users directly to free full-text versions of research articles
Review of Citation Sites some are listed below
VirtualLRC "The mission of the Virtual Learning Resources Center is to index thousands of the best academic information websites, selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide, in order to provide to students and teachers current, valid information for school and university academic projects!"
Science Research Papers Annotated With Teaching Resources
- Science in the Classroom is a free resource for teachers from Science Magazine. On Science in the Classroom you will find research papers containing interactive annotations to help students understand the content of the papers. In the right hand margin of each paper you will find a section called "learning lens." The learning lens offers seven types of interactive annotations that students can enable. Of those seven types of annotations, the glossary annotation is the one that students will probably use most often. The glossary annotations highlight key words and terms in the article. Clicking on a highlighted annotation reveals a definition. In addition to the interactive annotations for students Science in the Classroom provides teachers with discussion and reading comprehension questions. At the bottom of each article on Science in the Classroom teachers will also find a list of suggested teaching activities. www.freetech4teachers.com
Microsoft Academic (MA) Unlike mainstream search engines that are keyword-based, MA uses a different search algorithm, it uses what is known as semantic inference to identify your intent and consequently provide you with relevant search results. Here is how MA articulates this difference: "In a keyword-based search engine, suggestions are a convenient feature, but in a semantic search engine like MA they play the important role of an intelligent assistant. Imagine this assistant engaging in a dialogue with you in order to understand your needs better and help you accomplish your search goal more efficiently. By understanding how papers refer to various entities, MA has learned commonly used acronyms and allowed them in query expressions. For the best search results, please wait for MA's suggestions and click them to perform your search".
I Lazy to Read is a web application that auto-summarizes any online post into few sentences (five sentences). We have been experimenting with it for sometime now and found it really helpful. In sample tests the auto-generated summaries are highly relevant and are proved to capture the main ideas of the article. I Lazy to Read, as its name indicate, is a great help particularly in those times when you are too busy to read a whole article or a report just to find out that it is not relevant. You can also use it to save time reading news reports, blog posts and many more.
JURN "Search millions of free academic articles, chapter and theses."
Dimensions is a search engine focused on helping users discover research publications including clinical study reports. To help users get the whole picture, Dimensions will provide information about the grants that funded a study and report. You can filter Dimensions search results to show only open-access papers, to show only papers from a particular year, and according to field of research. ( freetech4teachers.com )
Common Craft has a new video that addresses that question and more. Citations and Citing Your Work teaches students about the differences between in-text and full citations and how they work together.
Iris.ia lets you paste the url address of any academic paper or TED Talk and then, in return, it provides you with a free interactive mosaic of related research papers.
Webjets is an information management tool. Webjets provides you with an intuitive platform where you can collect, save and organize digital content. Besides content curation, you can also use Webjets to record your notes, set goals, remember tasks, create mind maps, and share your digital libraries with others. You can also utilize it to collaborate with others in creating digital boards. Besides content curation, you can also use Webjets to record your notes, set goals, remember tasks, create mind maps, and share your digital libraries with others. You can also utilize it to collaborate with others in creating digital boards.
Schrock: MLA Citations for Grades 1-6
Schrock: Research and Style Guide for Grades 7-12 (2016)
Kathy Schrock: Parts of a Web page identified for citing
How to Cite Sources in Google Docs
3 Ways A Plagiarism Checker Can Help Students Can a plagiarism checker actually help students? This type of tool can help student writers as they strengthen their craft and write better.
Using Originality Reports in Google Classroom - How you and your students can check their writing for possible plagiarism and needed citations. With Originality Reports in Google Classroom, You can compare their written work against billions of webpages and millions of books to identify possible areas of plagiarism or passages that may need proper citation. This can help students catch problems before they submit their work, and allow you to easily check student writing while grading.
An Innovative Way to Deal With PlagiarismGoogle Docs plagiarism checker add-on that enables users to check their texts directly in their writing environment, without leaving Google Docs.
Free Online Plagiarism Checker FreePlagiarismChecker.pro is plagiarism scanner that detects plagiarism in your text. [This] free checking engine will scan your text and tell you if it contains duplicate content.
Plagiarism Detector: With this service, you can check up to 1,000 words for free and 540,000+ words with one of their “pro” accounts. They also offer customizable accounts.
SmallSEOTools: Check up to 1,000 words for free and 510,000+ with a “pro” account. Like Plagiarism Detector, you can customize your account with more or fewer features and words.
OuiWrite OW is an innovative site that students use to create a paper. While they are typing their paper OQ automatically searches for content they are typing about and find them sources. These sources can then be cited or added as a bibliography automatically. Also, OuiWrite has other great features such as a: genius button (w/ a very cool counter point feature), built in dictionary/thesaurus, as well as the ability to check for plagiarism. Finally, OuiWrite has built in templates for creating different types of papers and bibliographies, as well as saving everything on the web
Jurn Search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses.
Microsoft Academic Research Semantic search provides you with highly relevant search results from continually refreshed and extensive academic content from over 120 million publications.
Academia shared research papers
Seven Free Tools That Help Students Format Bibliographies
How to Quickly Create a Bibliography in Word www.freetech4teachers.comCite It In is another in a long list of tools that are designed to help students properly format research citations. Cite It In provides students with templates for creating inline and bibliography citations in APA, MLA, and Chicago style.
Students Guide to Citing APA Resources
Typeset is a website for research students and academics. It is an auto-formatting software that helps researchers convert their manuscripts into the journal format of their choice. Typeset currently hosts over 30,000 journal formats, which includes top journals from top publishers, like IEEE, Wiley and others. This helps them save formatting time and ensure 100% compliance to journal guidelines. If you're currently working on a manuscript / research paper.
Science Direct scientific, technical, and medical research
Paperrater FREE This is how it works –students come here and enter their text into the special box. Then, the machine starts analyzing it and highlights the errors. There are several aspects checked – grammar, spelling, punctuation. Then, the tool indicates possible plagiarism cases and also offers improvement suggestions. There is also a Writing Suggestion section, for helping students improve their writing style, the word choice, the vocabulary and more.
Writinghouse is an excellent free bibliography and citation maker. It allows you to automatically generate citations in various referencing styles including: MLA, APA, Chicago, and Harvard. We have been experimenting with it for awhile and found it really worth the shout-out here. Besides the citation and bibliography features, Writinghouse also offers other interesting tools to help students with their writing process. For instance, the Word Counter is a great way to keep track of the number of words you have written in an essay. There is also a section in this website featuring some good resources to help you learn more about the concept of bibliography and how to create one using different styles.
Citation Machine automatically generates citations in MLA, APA and more
Easily add and manage citations in Google Docs.
Bibcitation also just came out. Here’s a video about it: Bibcitation's New Chrome Extension Makes It Easy to Create Citations www.freetech4techers.com
Formatically's instant citation tool just paste the URL of the page that you want to cite into the instant citation tool. Once pasted into the tool you can choose the format that you want to use for your citation. If there is an error in the citation, you can correct it by clicking the edit icon at the end of the written citation. The system works the same way for books except that rather than entering a web page URL you enter a book title. Watch the video embedded below to learn more about Formatically's instant citation tool.video Free Technology for Teachers
LiquidText IOS app to help you enhance your reading. It provides you with a virtual workspace where you can manage, organize and work on your documents. More specifically, it lets you import documents (compatible with Word, PDF, and PowerPoint) and web pages right into your workspace, you can exact excerpts and key facts from your documents and draw or add your own notes. You can also create mind maps, connect different documents and jot down comments on multiple pages at once. LiquidText is especially helpful for research students. LiquidText is free but a single in-app purchase is required if you want to put several documents in one project, use inkling, and search across document
CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.
Search Engines for Social Science Content Areas
Academic Search Engines for Educators
Below is a collection of some handy academic search engines teachers and educators can use to search for and find a wide variety of academic articles, journals, documents and theses. Some of these search engines are subject focused and others are generic.
- Google Scholar Especially designed to search for scholarly literature, it helps you find relevant informationfrom the world of scholarly research. With Google Scholar, you can exploremany sources such as books, dissertations, articles and abstracts from various academic publishers, professional societies, universities and other websites.
- ERIC
- Citeulike
- JURN
- Microsoft Academic One of the best features of this search engine is that it provides trends, graphs and maps for your academic research. It contains more than 40 million publications and 20 million authors.
- Library of Congress
- Cite SeerX
- Refseek simpler than Google even in appearance. it removes results that are not related to science, academia and research. With a database of over 1 billion documents, web pages, books, journals, newspapers, online encyclopedias and articles,Refseek is your ultimate companion for academic research.
- Science Direct
- National Humanities Center is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to advanced study in all areas of the humanities. And it’s got some handy resources that they’ve housed at a site called America in Class that has primary and secondary resources, webinars, and lessons for history and literature teachers.
- iSeek Education is easily one of the best and widely used search engines for academic research on the internet. It has been especially designed keeping the students, teachers and scholarsin mind. This search engine only shows reliable and relevant results
- Virtual LRC or The Virtual Learning Resources Centre allows you to explore educational sites with high-quality information. It has indexed thousands of academic information websites. On top of that, with custom Google search, you will be able to get more refined results It has been organized by teachers and library professionals around the world to provide students with great resources for academic assignments and projects.
Candy You can use it to insert quotations from any webpage right into the document they are working on. It can also be used to generate reference information to data in a document. Another great feature from Candy is Storylines. Anything you collect or clip from online articles can be arranged into storylines with as many idea threads as you want. To use Candy, you need to register with a valid email address. Once registered, all you Candys will be stored in the site’s server so you can access them across different devices. Watch the video
Mendeley can be used as a searchable library for students to store and access annotations. Mendeley video tutorial
Google Alerts lets you see up-to-the-second social updates, news articles and blog posts about hot topics around the world. refine and understand your results. Geographic refinements to find updates and news in a region you specify, and a conversations view that makes it easy to follow a discussion on the real-time web. Also added “Updates” content to Google Alerts, making it easier to stay informed about the topics you choose. video tutorial
Citefast
Citefast is an easy to use web tool for creating citations. Students can utilize it to generate citations in different formats: APA (6th edition), MAL (7th edition), or Chicago (16th edition). The site provides a wide variety of features citation creation super easy and all for free. Some of these features include: automatic look up of journals, books and webpages; easy cut and paste and exporting to MS Word; In-text citation generator with guide and many more.
Mozgi Research Tool This is a web tool and Chrome and Firefox extension that helps you easily save and and gather data from web pages. You can drag and drop selected text, images, videos or links; take screenshots; organize your data and when you are done you can share it with your colleagues. Mozgi does not require any registration.
7 Step to Do Academic Research Using Digital Technologies Research is a process. It is a continuum of stages that together make up a research plan. Below is a tentative sketch of what we think are the seven important steps of a research plan. For each of these stages we featured a short collection of web tools to help you carry it out. We have also created a poster capturing the steps and tools we covered here. You can download, share and use the poster the way you want as long as you use it for educational purposes.
Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. Whether you're searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from your university library catalog, Zotero has you covered with support for thousands of sites.
Mendeley Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Here is what you can do with Mendeley:
- Automatically generate bibliographies
- Collaborate easily with other researchers online
- Easily import papers from other research software
- Find relevant papers based on what you’re reading
- Access your papers from anywhere online
- Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app
🎯How to Create Citations and Bibliographies in Google Docs - No Add-ons Required Google added an updated citation tool to Google Docs that makes the Easy Bib add-on redundant. With the latest update to Google Docs you can now create MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations directly in Google Docs without the need for a third-party add-on. You'll find the new citation feature in the tools drop-down menu in Google Docs. video www.freetech4teacher.com
How to Quickly Create a Bibliography in Word www.freetech4teachers.comFormatically's instant citation tool just paste the URL of the page that you want to cite into the instant citation tool. Once pasted into the tool you can choose the format that you want to use for your citation. If there is an error in the citation, you can correct it by clicking the edit icon at the end of the written citation. The system works the same way for books except that rather than entering a web page URL you enter a book title. Watch the video embedded below to learn more about Formatically's instant citation tool.video Free Technology for Teachers
Citeulike a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references.Some of its features include:
- Easily store references you find online
- Discover new articles and resources
- Automated article recommendationsNEW
- Share references with your peers
- Find out who's reading what you're reading
- Store and search your PDFs
In-depth Articles a new feature where sometimes at the bottom of the first page of search results you will see a block of sites titled In-depth Articles.
CamFind is a free iOS and Android app that enables you to take a picture of any object and then instantly conduct a web search about it. For example, when I take a picture of my computer bag CamFind instantly starts to search for objects like it as well as web pages about computer bags. I've also used CamFind to take pictures of blocks of text and let CamFind then search for web articles related to the text in my picture.
Applications for Education
One obvious use of CamFind is on field trips or simple walks around your school's neighborhood. Students could use the app to find information about plants while they walk. They could use the app to learn more about a landmark on a field trip.
Another possible use of CamFind is to have students scan passages of text (zoom-in on the page first) and then let CamFind search for related articles. Once they have a list of related articles students could dive deeper by entering search terms into a Google search.
Checklist for Evaluating Information Sources
Is It Reliable? Activity
Google Date Range Filter - Click on Tools, then Anytime drop-down and chhose custome range.
Google Search Lessons
Google News for for historical news papers tool for finding resources for current events around the world. Google News is also great for finding old newspapers for use in your instruction. You will find directions at this site for accessing historical newspapers. How to Search Google's Scanned Newspaper Archive
Teaching with Historical Newspapers LOC Webinar 30 min.
Get a Summary of Information About Sites Google has recently added a potentially helpful new aspect to the search results page. Now when you view your search results page you will see the titles of some sites in gray text next to the URL. When you see that gray text click the little drop-down menu to see a brief summary about the owner of the site.
Right now the new summary tool doesn't appear next to every result. In my testing it seems to only appear next to large, well-known sites. In the future it could be a good tool for helping students understand who is behind a website and account for that in evaluating the quality of a site.
WWW Virtual Library System: International Affairs Resources is one section of the Virtual Library System. This site has over 2000 carefully selected links which have been annotated. These links are divided into 34 international affairs categories such as nongovernmental organizations, comparative and international education, and scholarly papers and articles.
Wonder is a search tool that goes beyond just searching the internet. Wonder has built a research network of librarians and experienced researchers to help students search the web for high-quality sources, and to encourage curiosity in online learning. When you search in Wonder, the results are contributed by librarians and other experts, filtering out a lot of the garbage that is online. When you do a search, you get some results, a box to enter more information about what you are searching for, and a list of experts that you can choose to get results from.
Google Books is one of the research tools that Google offers, but a lot of students overlook. Google Books can be a good place for students to look for books and look within books that can help them with their research projects. This short guide and this video provide updated directions
Seven Tools to Make Research Paper Writing Easier
Google Scholar indexes scholarly, peer-reviewed academic papers, journals, theses, books, and court opinions. These are materials that students usually won't find through Google.com, Bing, or Yahoo search. Just they can do for Google.com searches, students can create Google Scholar alerts. Google Scholar alerts notify students when new materials related to their search queries appear on Google Scholar. Guide for alerts is particularly useful for student researchers who are doing research around a topic area and want to have access to the latest and recent output about it. Creating an alert on Google Scholar will enable you to receive emails with updates and new releases about your alert.
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Here is what you can do with Mendeley:
Google News Newspaper archive. In the Google News Newspaper archive you can search for a specific newspaper, search for article titles, or as demonstrated below you can search for a topic.
Evernote Allows you to remember and act upon ideas, projects and experiences across all the computers, phones and tablets you use.
Jog The Web
This tool will enable you to create 'web tours' with embedded comments. The websites you choose appear with your comments below along with navigation. AND the websites you choose remain active so your students can use the links based on your directions and then go right to the next stop you chose.
Gooru is a place to find and or create collections of educational videos, texts, and images. Gooru's new interface includes the option to search for materials according to ELA Common Core standards. Another new feature of the revamped Gooru interface is dragging and dropping items from your search results to your collections. Now you can also create quizzes to go along with each of your collections.
Scrible is a free service offering a nice set of tools for highlighting, annotating, and bookmarking webpages. Scrible offers browser bookmarklets for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer. With the Scrible bookmarklet installed, anytime you're on a page just click the bookmarklet to launch a menu of bookmarking tools. The Scrible tool set includes highlighters, sticky notes, and font change tools. When you annotate and bookmark a page in Scrible it is saved as it appeared to you when you were done altering it. And as you would expect from a web-based bookmarking tool, you can share your bookmarked pages with others. Students can get a free Scrible account that has double the storage capacity of the standard free account.
Scrible recently added an options for formatting bibliographies as you bookmark. Scrible also has a new feature that allows you to compile your article clippings into one package.
Applications for Education
Tools like Scrible are excellent for students to use when they're conducting online research. The benefit of using a tool like Scrible is that students can take notes on their bookmarks and bookmark only the parts of a website that they need to reference in their reports. Saving bookmarks in this manner saves time when you go back to visit a site because you'll immediately see what it was that promoted you to bookmark it in the first place.
12 Academic Search Engines search engines that are area or content specific. 60 Seconds Guide to Students Effective Search Techniques now there is this beautiful flowchart about some important search engines to use besides Google
RefSeek Academic search engine that makes academic information easier to access than typical search engines. Refseek cuts down on the overload of non-academic search results by eliminating sponsored links and commercial search results.
Mashpedia is an interesting service that matches reference articles from Wikipedia to materials from YouTube and news websites. The purpose of drawing materials from multiple sources is to provide users with a comprehensive view of news stories and reference topics.
Talk Miner is a tool for searching the contents of webinars, webcasts, and video lectures. Talk Miner searches the slides, images, and text within videos to take you to the scenes that match your search query. video
The Best Websites for Finding Academic Books and Journals
Rutgers' Riot is an animated research tutorial. It plays like a five part animated movie. Each part of the movie features characters explaining an aspect of the research process. The five parts are selecting a topic, finding sources, choosing keywords, identifying citations, and evaluating sources. There are text documents available to accompany the videos.
Rutgers' animated research tutorial could be a good resource for introducing or refreshing research techniques in a clear and simple way.
Retooling Research tools to help you update and revitalize the research process for both you and your students
Specialized Research Tools
Common Craft Video Primary and Secondary Resources
All-In-One Advanced Search for YouTube makes it easy to find what you are looking for on YouTube. When I search YouTube, I often get a list of results that may or may not do what I need. For example, I wanted to find school surveillance videos that focused on tornadoes. That is, tornado damage school surveillance video cameras have recorded. And I wanted to avoid certain results. To get that, I relied on the search parameters below: |
Primary Sources
Articles:
Answer one specific question about each of the texts they read: Does the author have firsthand knowledge of the topic or event he or she is describing? If the answer is yes, then it’s a primary source.
Video on the topic of primary v. secondary sources. By watching the short video students can learn what a makes a resource a primary or secondary source. The video provides a handful of examples of each along with a description of what makes the example a primary or secondary source. www.freetech4teachers.com
Scrible is an online platform that provides tools for research and writing. It offers features such as annotating web pages, saving and organizing sources, and creating citations. Scrible.io enables users to collaborate on research projects and manage their references efficiently. It is particularly useful for academic and research purposes, allowing users to streamline the process of gathering and organizing information.
How to Explain Primary and Secondary Sources"This title came from a suggestion by a Common Craft member who found that explaining it was more difficult than expected. It has since become one of the most used videos in our library. " Watch it in full. (2m 20s)
Facilitate Deeper Thinking With the SOAPST Strategy
Five Activities for Teaching and Learning With Primary Sources www.freetech4teachers.com
🎯Compare textbooks, primary sources, and Wikipedia Activities
iCivics Exploring Primary Sources website.Here’s how they describe it:Primary sources get students closer to historical events and offer varying perspectives that spark inquiry, discussion and deeper learning. The iCivics Exploring Primary Sources website, supported by a grant from the Library of Congress, is an exciting new resource for K–12 educators and their students.
Printables For Primary Source Analysis, Including Versions For ELLs The National Archives has a collection of eighteen different sheets that can be used by students for analyzing primary sources, including versions specifically made for use with ELLs. The worksheets could also be used with non-primary sources, and include ones targeting maps, documents and photos.
World History Commons offers a free collection of more than 1700 primary sources covering a wide array of themes and events in world history. The best part is that all of the primary sources in the collection are annotated with helpful notes for students. World History Commons also offers a collection of free teaching guides that incorporate the use of primary sources. www.freetech4teachers.com
Digital Vaults is a site put together by the National Archives (a great history resource). It is a place where historical records, photos, and documents are kept. At this site a user can either create a Digital Poster, Movie or a Pathway Challenge. A Pathway Challenge is a great way to lean history and see how historical items are "linked" together.
Library of Congress
🎯The World Digital Library. is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress. It provides international resources while the Library of Congress focuses on the US.
Talk To Books You type a question or a statement into the search bar (obviously, it’s Google!) and in return, you’ll get quotes from inside of books that seemingly answer your questions or pertain to your sentence.
🎯Internet History Sourcebooks , "A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Primary sources are available here primarily for use in high-school and university/college courses. From the outset the site took a very broad view of the sources that should be available to students and as well as documents long associated with a "western civilization" approach to history also provides much information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. You will also find many documents especially relevant to women's history and LGBT studies."
Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade
Photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Eyewitness to History
Stanford History Education Group Provides teachers with high-quality resources to enrich students' intellectual experience in the history classroom.
🎯The National Writing Project’s C3WP (College, Career, and Community Writers Program) uses teacher-created text sets of current primary sources to support argument writing. Their site not only contains ready-made writing lessons based on text sets but everything teachers need to create their own lessons. In tandem with the C3WP site is the NY Times Argumentative Prompts, which offers text sets that are less than a month old. Some primary sources can be difficult for students, so I rewrite and edit those with a note that I have edited it. I also read it aloud and record it, providing the .mp3 file for student access
DocsTeach is an online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives. On the web site, you will discover thousands of primary sources and learning activities. When registered for a free account, teachers can borrow from and modify an ever-expanding collection of activities, plus create unique ones using the online tools.The problem is the online version is Flash-based, making it impossible to use on iPads. This mobile app makes it possible to access much of the content. Log in to the website, create classrooms full of activities, then share the classroom’s auto generated code with your students to access on their iPads. The Digital Public Library of America Includes Primary Source Sets organized according to themes, eras, and events in United States history. The DPLA primary source sets include documents, drawings, maps, photographs, and film clips. Each set is accompanied by a teaching guide. All of the sets can be shared directly to Google Classroom. And each artifact that students view in the sets is accompanied by some questions or points to ponder while reviewing that artifact. www.freetech4teachers,com
Digital Archive: International History Declassified Is a resource where students, researchers and specialists can access once-secret documents from governments and organizations all over the world. Constructed and maintained by the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program, the Digital Archive contains newly declassified historical materials from archives around the world—much of it in translation and including diplomatic cables, high level correspondence, meeting minutes and more. The historical documents presented in the ever-expanding Digital Archive provide fresh, unprecedented insights into recent international history.
National Humanities Center is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to advanced study in all areas of the humanities. And it’s got some handy resources that they’ve housed at a site called America in Class that has primary and secondary resources, webinars, and lessons for history and literature teachers.
Library of Congress: American Memory Collection K - 5
Primary Source Sets come from the Digital Public Library of America. Here’s how they describe them: Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature, and culture through primary sources. Drawing online materials from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States, the sets use letters, photographs, posters, oral histories, video clips, sheet music, and more. Each set includes a topic overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
Newspaper Navigator. Newspaper Navigator is an index of 1.5 million images published in newspapers between 1900 and 1963. You can search Newspaper Navigator by keyword and then narrow your results by date and or the U.S. state in which the newspaper was published. There is a highly detailed tutorial on how to use the LOC's Newspaper Navigator right on its search page. www.freetech4teachers.com
To access online depositories of photographs from important events
Caption This! Using photos and text to analyze primary sources
article, “‘I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier:’ Ideas and Strategies for Using Music from the National Jukebox to Teach Difficult Topics in History,” provides ideas and resources for incorporating sheet music and sound recordings to encourage student inquiry.
Eagle Eye Citizen Eagle Eye Citizen engages middle and high school students in solving and creating interactive challenges on American history, civics, and government with Library of Congress primary sources in order to develop students’ civic understanding and historical thinking skills. Teachers can create virtual classrooms to monitor student progress, and students can create their own interactives, too!
Engaging Congress: Developed by the Indiana University Center on Representative Government, Engaging Congress is a series of game-based learning activities that explores the basic tenets of representative government and the challenges that it faces in contemporary society. Primary source documents are used to examine the history and evolution of issues that confront Congress today.
Kid Citizen: KidCitizen introduces a new way for young students (K-5) to engage with history through primary sources. In KidCitizen’s nine interactive episodes, children explore civics and government concepts by investigating primary source photographs from the Library of Congress. They also connect what they find with their daily lives. KidCitizen includes cloud software tools that let educators create their own episodes and share them with students.
My CaseMaker: Case Maker is a customizable system for inquiry-based learning for K-12 students using primary sources from the Library of Congress. Modeled after the ‘observe, reflect, question,’ framework developed under the TPS program, Case Maker guides students to challenge a question, collect evidence, and make a case. Teachers can also create virtual classrooms here to monitor student progress.
Primary Sources, the Library of Congress and English Learners is from Colorin Colorado.
SAS Curriculum Pathways a free site with tons of interactive lessons that students can complete and then email to their teacher. It’s recently gotten even better….They unveiled a big upgrade to the design of their site, and it looks great. Secondly, they have a nice new feature called Explore Primary Sources, which provides lots of creative lessons for students to access…primary sources.
Here’s an interactive tutorial for AP History teachers on using close reading with primary sources.
Reading Like A Historian is an impressive collection of almost ninety U.S. and World History lessons from The Stanford History Education Group. Here’s how they describe the lessons: The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents designed for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities. This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on historical issues. They learn to make historical claims backed by documentary evidence. They look good to me. You have to register to gain access to them (though you can get a “quick view” of them without registering), but registering is a pretty painless process. The same organization also sponsors Beyond The Bubble, a history assessment site
Newsela Unveils Exceptional Library Of Primary Sources Edited For Different “Levels”
Analyzing Primary Sources: Learning from Images is from The Barat Education Foundation. I’m adding it to The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons.
Blogging History: Interpreting Civil War-Era Primary Sources is from The New York Times Learning Network.
Historical Scene Investigation Check out Zoom-In Toolfor zooming into images
Famous NYC Tenement Museum Expands Physical Facility & Online Site
Teaching the Vietnam War With Primary Sources From The New York Times is from The New York Times Learning Network.
Teaching with Primary Sources is from Thinkport.
Jackpot! Great Interactives To Support Teaching & Learning With Primary Sources
Good Sets of Primary Source Documents About the American Revolution and More
The Massachusetts Historical Society has a great website that hosts collections of primary sources related to the American Revolution, founding families of the United States, abolition, and the Civil War. Additionally, on the MHS site you'll find recordings of webinars about many of the topics related to the collections of primary sources. Music of the Plimoth Colony Settlers is an interesting webinar.. www.freetech4teachers.com
Some of the highlights of the collections of primary sources found on the Massachusetts Historical Society's website include:
The DBQ Project provides Social Studies lessons and lets students create virtual classrooms. It looks pretty interesting, and I learned about it from Ken Halla.
DBQ Quest is from iCivics.
America In Class has an impressive collection of primary sources and related lesson ideas.
How Do We Teach With Primary Sources When So Many Voices Are Missing? is from Ed Week.
Primary Sources for STEAM
- Teaching Hard History With Primary Sources is from Teaching Tolerance.
- Helping Students Grapple with Primary Sources is from Middleweb.
- Engaging Students With Primary Sources is from The Smithsonian.
- Pairing Picture Books with Primary Sources
- How Do We Teach With Primary Sources When So Many Voices Are Missing?
Answer one specific question about each of the texts they read: Does the author have firsthand knowledge of the topic or event he or she is describing? If the answer is yes, then it’s a primary source.
Video on the topic of primary v. secondary sources. By watching the short video students can learn what a makes a resource a primary or secondary source. The video provides a handful of examples of each along with a description of what makes the example a primary or secondary source. www.freetech4teachers.com
Scrible is an online platform that provides tools for research and writing. It offers features such as annotating web pages, saving and organizing sources, and creating citations. Scrible.io enables users to collaborate on research projects and manage their references efficiently. It is particularly useful for academic and research purposes, allowing users to streamline the process of gathering and organizing information.
How to Explain Primary and Secondary Sources"This title came from a suggestion by a Common Craft member who found that explaining it was more difficult than expected. It has since become one of the most used videos in our library. " Watch it in full. (2m 20s)
Facilitate Deeper Thinking With the SOAPST Strategy
Five Activities for Teaching and Learning With Primary Sources www.freetech4teachers.com
🎯Compare textbooks, primary sources, and Wikipedia Activities
iCivics Exploring Primary Sources website.Here’s how they describe it:Primary sources get students closer to historical events and offer varying perspectives that spark inquiry, discussion and deeper learning. The iCivics Exploring Primary Sources website, supported by a grant from the Library of Congress, is an exciting new resource for K–12 educators and their students.
- Discover innovative, free products from iCivics and our partners that offer interactive, engaging learning experiences with primary sourcesBuild your knowledge, skills and confidence to teach with primary sources with our collection of professional development videos
- Simplify lesson planning with this curated collection of high-quality primary source tools
Printables For Primary Source Analysis, Including Versions For ELLs The National Archives has a collection of eighteen different sheets that can be used by students for analyzing primary sources, including versions specifically made for use with ELLs. The worksheets could also be used with non-primary sources, and include ones targeting maps, documents and photos.
World History Commons offers a free collection of more than 1700 primary sources covering a wide array of themes and events in world history. The best part is that all of the primary sources in the collection are annotated with helpful notes for students. World History Commons also offers a collection of free teaching guides that incorporate the use of primary sources. www.freetech4teachers.com
Digital Vaults is a site put together by the National Archives (a great history resource). It is a place where historical records, photos, and documents are kept. At this site a user can either create a Digital Poster, Movie or a Pathway Challenge. A Pathway Challenge is a great way to lean history and see how historical items are "linked" together.
Library of Congress
- Teacher’s Guides and Analysis Tool for primary sources is from The Library of Congress.
- Analyzing Primary Sources: Strategies & Activities
- Chronicling America Historic Newspapers
- Selecting and Using Primary Sources with Difficult Topics: Civil Rights and Current Events
- Historical Jukebox Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress- music, speeches interviews, ...
- Beyond the Bubble assessments unlocks the vast digital archive of the Library of Congress to create History Assessments of Thinking (HATs). Explore over 80 easy-to-use assessments that measure students' historical thinking
- Newspaper Navigator. Newspaper Navigator is an index of 1.5 million images published in newspapers between 1900 and 1963. You can search Newspaper Navigator by keyword and then narrow your results by date and or the U.S. state in which the newspaper was published. There is a highly detailed tutorial on how to use the LOC's Newspaper Navigator right on its search page. www.freetech4teachers.com
- 👆🏽History Mysteries: Historical Inquiry for Elementary Classrooms is a site created with Library of Congress / Teaching with Primary Sources money. Two teachers, Kelley Brown and Laurie Risler, partnered to develop Google Slides, student materials, and teacher guides that all focus on historical thinking skills and the use of primary sources.
🎯The World Digital Library. is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress. It provides international resources while the Library of Congress focuses on the US.
Talk To Books You type a question or a statement into the search bar (obviously, it’s Google!) and in return, you’ll get quotes from inside of books that seemingly answer your questions or pertain to your sentence.
🎯Internet History Sourcebooks , "A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Primary sources are available here primarily for use in high-school and university/college courses. From the outset the site took a very broad view of the sources that should be available to students and as well as documents long associated with a "western civilization" approach to history also provides much information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. You will also find many documents especially relevant to women's history and LGBT studies."
Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade
Photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Eyewitness to History
Stanford History Education Group Provides teachers with high-quality resources to enrich students' intellectual experience in the history classroom.
🎯The National Writing Project’s C3WP (College, Career, and Community Writers Program) uses teacher-created text sets of current primary sources to support argument writing. Their site not only contains ready-made writing lessons based on text sets but everything teachers need to create their own lessons. In tandem with the C3WP site is the NY Times Argumentative Prompts, which offers text sets that are less than a month old. Some primary sources can be difficult for students, so I rewrite and edit those with a note that I have edited it. I also read it aloud and record it, providing the .mp3 file for student access
DocsTeach is an online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives. On the web site, you will discover thousands of primary sources and learning activities. When registered for a free account, teachers can borrow from and modify an ever-expanding collection of activities, plus create unique ones using the online tools.The problem is the online version is Flash-based, making it impossible to use on iPads. This mobile app makes it possible to access much of the content. Log in to the website, create classrooms full of activities, then share the classroom’s auto generated code with your students to access on their iPads. The Digital Public Library of America Includes Primary Source Sets organized according to themes, eras, and events in United States history. The DPLA primary source sets include documents, drawings, maps, photographs, and film clips. Each set is accompanied by a teaching guide. All of the sets can be shared directly to Google Classroom. And each artifact that students view in the sets is accompanied by some questions or points to ponder while reviewing that artifact. www.freetech4teachers,com
Digital Archive: International History Declassified Is a resource where students, researchers and specialists can access once-secret documents from governments and organizations all over the world. Constructed and maintained by the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program, the Digital Archive contains newly declassified historical materials from archives around the world—much of it in translation and including diplomatic cables, high level correspondence, meeting minutes and more. The historical documents presented in the ever-expanding Digital Archive provide fresh, unprecedented insights into recent international history.
National Humanities Center is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to advanced study in all areas of the humanities. And it’s got some handy resources that they’ve housed at a site called America in Class that has primary and secondary resources, webinars, and lessons for history and literature teachers.
Library of Congress: American Memory Collection K - 5
Primary Source Sets come from the Digital Public Library of America. Here’s how they describe them: Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature, and culture through primary sources. Drawing online materials from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States, the sets use letters, photographs, posters, oral histories, video clips, sheet music, and more. Each set includes a topic overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
Newspaper Navigator. Newspaper Navigator is an index of 1.5 million images published in newspapers between 1900 and 1963. You can search Newspaper Navigator by keyword and then narrow your results by date and or the U.S. state in which the newspaper was published. There is a highly detailed tutorial on how to use the LOC's Newspaper Navigator right on its search page. www.freetech4teachers.com
To access online depositories of photographs from important events
Caption This! Using photos and text to analyze primary sources
article, “‘I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier:’ Ideas and Strategies for Using Music from the National Jukebox to Teach Difficult Topics in History,” provides ideas and resources for incorporating sheet music and sound recordings to encourage student inquiry.
Eagle Eye Citizen Eagle Eye Citizen engages middle and high school students in solving and creating interactive challenges on American history, civics, and government with Library of Congress primary sources in order to develop students’ civic understanding and historical thinking skills. Teachers can create virtual classrooms to monitor student progress, and students can create their own interactives, too!
Engaging Congress: Developed by the Indiana University Center on Representative Government, Engaging Congress is a series of game-based learning activities that explores the basic tenets of representative government and the challenges that it faces in contemporary society. Primary source documents are used to examine the history and evolution of issues that confront Congress today.
Kid Citizen: KidCitizen introduces a new way for young students (K-5) to engage with history through primary sources. In KidCitizen’s nine interactive episodes, children explore civics and government concepts by investigating primary source photographs from the Library of Congress. They also connect what they find with their daily lives. KidCitizen includes cloud software tools that let educators create their own episodes and share them with students.
My CaseMaker: Case Maker is a customizable system for inquiry-based learning for K-12 students using primary sources from the Library of Congress. Modeled after the ‘observe, reflect, question,’ framework developed under the TPS program, Case Maker guides students to challenge a question, collect evidence, and make a case. Teachers can also create virtual classrooms here to monitor student progress.
Primary Sources, the Library of Congress and English Learners is from Colorin Colorado.
SAS Curriculum Pathways a free site with tons of interactive lessons that students can complete and then email to their teacher. It’s recently gotten even better….They unveiled a big upgrade to the design of their site, and it looks great. Secondly, they have a nice new feature called Explore Primary Sources, which provides lots of creative lessons for students to access…primary sources.
Here’s an interactive tutorial for AP History teachers on using close reading with primary sources.
Reading Like A Historian is an impressive collection of almost ninety U.S. and World History lessons from The Stanford History Education Group. Here’s how they describe the lessons: The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents designed for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities. This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on historical issues. They learn to make historical claims backed by documentary evidence. They look good to me. You have to register to gain access to them (though you can get a “quick view” of them without registering), but registering is a pretty painless process. The same organization also sponsors Beyond The Bubble, a history assessment site
Newsela Unveils Exceptional Library Of Primary Sources Edited For Different “Levels”
Analyzing Primary Sources: Learning from Images is from The Barat Education Foundation. I’m adding it to The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons.
Blogging History: Interpreting Civil War-Era Primary Sources is from The New York Times Learning Network.
Historical Scene Investigation Check out Zoom-In Toolfor zooming into images
Famous NYC Tenement Museum Expands Physical Facility & Online Site
Teaching the Vietnam War With Primary Sources From The New York Times is from The New York Times Learning Network.
Teaching with Primary Sources is from Thinkport.
Jackpot! Great Interactives To Support Teaching & Learning With Primary Sources
Good Sets of Primary Source Documents About the American Revolution and More
The Massachusetts Historical Society has a great website that hosts collections of primary sources related to the American Revolution, founding families of the United States, abolition, and the Civil War. Additionally, on the MHS site you'll find recordings of webinars about many of the topics related to the collections of primary sources. Music of the Plimoth Colony Settlers is an interesting webinar.. www.freetech4teachers.com
Some of the highlights of the collections of primary sources found on the Massachusetts Historical Society's website include:
- Perspectives on the Boston Massacre
- Adams Family Papers
- Presidential Papers of Thomas Jefferson
- Massachusetts Debates Suffrage
- Massachusetts in the Civil War
The DBQ Project provides Social Studies lessons and lets students create virtual classrooms. It looks pretty interesting, and I learned about it from Ken Halla.
DBQ Quest is from iCivics.
America In Class has an impressive collection of primary sources and related lesson ideas.
How Do We Teach With Primary Sources When So Many Voices Are Missing? is from Ed Week.
Primary Sources for STEAM
- Science & Technology Primary Sources: primarysourcenexus.org/psn-resources/themed-link-sets/science-technology/
- Science Primary Sources Activities
- Math Primary Sources: primarysourcenexus.org/tag/math
- The New York Times Learning pages:
www.nytimes.com/section/learning
www.nytimes.com/spotlight/learning-science-math
A collection of all the lesson plans they have posted from 2015-2016 to date:
learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/year-end-roundup-2015-16-all-our-lesson-plans-all-in-one-place/?rref=collection%2Fspotlightcollection%2Flearning-science-math&action=click&contentCollection=learning®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=collection - Historical Treasure Chests
This project provides a model for engaging students in an investigation of authentic materials from the past. The students will be provided with four primary sources and questions to guide their investigation. A wealth of other primary resources can be accessed on the websites listed in the reference section. gr 5-12 - Overview In this project students will report on a book by describing how they would turn that book into a motion picture. After reading and studying the main components of their novel (character, plot, conflict, climax and denouement), students will use their imaginations to explain how they would cast and direct the movie versions. This project also provides enrichment activities where in the students will access archived materials such as the Academy Awards Data Base, movie posters, and movie reviews. gr 5-12
- Population Growth Project This series of activities explores the mathematical and environmental aspects of population growth. Using archived census and demographic data as well as up-to-the-minute population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, students will learn how to model population growth and study the implications of a changing population. gr 6-12
Citation Tools
Why Cite? video could help some students understand why they need to cite the sources of their information. The short video seems to be designed for an elementary school audience although some of the points in the video will require you to clarify and deepen the explanations.
Can I Use That image? a PDF guide to use in determining whether or not you can use a picture you've found on the Internet. To accompany that guide and provide some clarifications is a recorded short video presentation in Canva. In this short videoTake a look at the guide to finding media for classroom projects. www.freetech4teachers.com
Copyright for Teachers - A Webinar With Beth Holland and Richard Byrne
Google Documents users have a research tool at their disposal whenever they open a document. Simply open the "tools" menu in Google Docs and select "research." Once that selection is made a Google search box opens in the right margin of the screen. Resources selected from that search pane will be accompanied by a link placed in the footnotes of the document. The formatting of the citations often leaves something to be desired, but at least it gets students in the habit of keeping track of resources.
**One of the most useful Add-ons for Google Documents is the EasyBib Bibliography Creator. The EasyBib Bibliography Creator makes it easy to properly cite resources and format a bibliography in APA, MLA, or Chicago style. The Add-on allows students to enter book titles, authors' names, websites, webpages, and periodical titles. The Add-on will then create a citation that is added to a page at the end of students' documents. Click here for directions for the process of using this add-on.
EasyBib Create accurate MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations in seconds by scanning a book bar code or by typing the name of a book. Build and manage your works cited. Once done, email your citations and then export your citations to EasyBib.com's popular bibliography management service. Has published a new video that could help some students understand why they need to cite the sources of their information. The short video seems to be designed for an elementary school audience although some of the points in the video will require you to clarify and deepen the explanations.
Copyright Decision Tool The Copyright Decision Tool helps teachers decide whether they can use print materials, artistic works or audiovisual materials without getting copyright permission.
Cite This For Me is a free service designed to help students keep track of the resources that they use in their research work. RefMe now part of this service. Cite This For Me offers a free Chrome extension that lets students cite a webpage with just one click. The free extension will format citations in APA, MLA, Harvard, or Chicago style. Students can also use the extension to highlight and save portions of the webpages that they are citing. All Cite This For Me citations are saved in students' free Cite This For Me accounts. In their account dashboards students can edit citations as well as manually enter citations of books, journals, and other references.
Formatically this is a very easy to use platform that helps students and teachers format their essays and papers in MLA format. The process is simple and easy. Formatively provides you with an MLA format template where you will add your data and follow directions to generate a properly MLA formatted paper.
There is also an automatic formatting tool for APA style
refDot is a Google Chrome extension that could be very helpful for keeping track of and formatting references for use in bibliographies. Whenever you're viewing a website, an online book, an online journal, or a news article just click the refDot icon in your browser to open a window into which you enter all of information you need for a bibliography. For example if you were viewing a blog post on Free Technology for Teachers that you wanted to reference in a bibliography, click on refDot and the pop-up box will prompt you to enter the date of access, URL, title, and year.
ICyte Rather than relying on live URLs, this tool saves a Web page's content even if that Web page later shuts down or is no longer retrievable. It also saves any highlighted markings you've made on a page. ICyte is a free Web browser add-on
Candy You can use it to insert quotations from any webpage right into the document they are working on. It can also be used to generate reference information to data in a document. Another great feature from Candy is Storylines. Anything you collect or clip from online articles can be arranged into storylines with as many idea threads as you want. To use Candy, you need to register with a valid email address. Once registered, all you Candys will be stored in the site’s server so you can access them across different devices. Watch the video
Stanford University Libraries' Copyright & Fair Use guide. This guide should be bookmarked by anyone who has questions about copyright and fair use. The guide covers everything from the basics of copyright to the nuances of fair use. There is even a section devoted to academic fair use that should be of particular interest to teachers who publish lessons online. In the guide you will find templates for requesting permission to use copyrighted works. Use the template if you're in doubt about whether or not you can use someone else's work. And if you're looking to publish on your own website or blog, pay attention to the section titled Websites: Five Ways to Stay Out of Trouble. (www.freetech4teachers.com )
Five Resources for Teaching and Learning about Copyright
Photos for Class is a free Creative Commons image search engine. The service is designed to help students find and accurately cite images. Images downloaded through Photos for Class have proper attributions automatically added to them. This service is now available in Edmodo too.
Photos for Class can be found in the Edmodo app store. The app is free. You can install Photos for Class Edmodo app with just a couple of clicks. Once installed all of your students can start searching for and downloading Creative Commons licensed images.
How to use Flickr CC Attribution Helper video
Research Building Blocks: “Cite Those Sources!” gr 3-5 lesson
Plagiarism.org features a plethora of excellent materials and citation sources that are all available online or in the form of PDF documents , free to download and use.
RefME is a service designed to help students create citations and organize bibliographies. The RefME Safari extension allows students to save web addresses in their RefME accounts by simply tapping the share button in Safari and selecting RefME. The video below provides an overview of the RefME Safari extension. Complete directions are available at the bottom of this page.The free RefME iPad app enables students to scan the barcode on a book, periodical, CD cases, and many other media cases to have a citation formatted for that item
Writinghouse free bibliography and citation maker. It allows you to automatically generate citations in various referencing styles including: MLA, APA, Chicago, and Harvard. We have been experimenting with it for awhile and found it really worth the shout-out here.
Besides the citation and bibliography features, Writinghouse also offers other interesting tools to help students with their writing process. For instance, the Word Counter is a great way to keep track of the number of words you have written in an essay. There is also a section in this website featuring some good resources to help you learn more about the concept of bibliography and how to create one using different styles.
Citefast
Citefast is an easy to use web tool for creating citations. Students can utilize it to generate citations in different formats: APA (6th edition), MAL (7th edition), or Chicago (16th edition). The site provides a wide variety of features citation creation super easy and all for free. Some of these features include: automatic look up of journals, books and webpages; easy cut and paste and exporting to MS Word; In-text citation generator with guide and many more.
Mendeley Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Here is what you can do with Mendeley:
Copyright Flowchart for Your Class Scroll down to see the chart
4 Great Web Tools to Help Teachers and Librarians Learn about Copyright
Five Minute Film Festival on Copyright and Fair Use for Educators
From Edutopia - a collection of short videos discussing copyright and fair use.
Bibliography and citation tools
The tools included in this list are among the best web services you can find online to help with the integration of bibliography and citations into documents. They cover different style formats including APA, MLA, and Chicago.
How to Create a Bibliography in Google Documents
Five-Minute Film Festival: Copyright and Fair Use for Educators, by Amy Borovoy In K-12 education, it's a challenge to navigate the copyright and fair use waters. What can educators use? How can they use it? VideoAmy has collected some fun, engaging videos to help teachers and students understand the confusing subject.
Debbie Abilock • iCyte's embedded in NoodleTools http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/tutorials/icyte/ so you can archive web pages and pdfs, take and organize notes into an outline, and cite sources in the same place!
Citelighter - The fully automated bibliography, research, citation, and internet highlighting tool. a helpful tool for anyone trying to organize their online and or offline research findings. At its core Citelighter is a browser extension (available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari) that enables you to select sections of webpages and save them along with the important information needed to create an APA, MLA, or Chicago style bibliography. If you have pieces of text from books and journals that you want to include in your list of citations, you can add those in Citelighter too.
OuiBox - A great site for writing. Cites sources, annotates, and more as you write.
Guide on How to Cite Social Media Using Both MLA and APA styles
Visual Guide to Citing Tweets in Academic Papers
Your Visual Guide to Citing Tweets Properly in Academic Papers
Virginia Glatzer •OneNote is fabulous for annotating You can "print" any type of file, including a PDF, directly into OneNote and mark it up. OneNote is now available for the first time and for free for Mac users. With this new update, OneNote becomes available on all platforms including: PC, Mac, Windows TabLets, Windows Phone, iPad, iPhone, Android and the Web.
Besides Evernote, OneNote is secondary to none in terms of the powerful note taking features it provides. I have been using i
Bibliography Templates for Google Documents The Google Docs template gallery is a good place to check out before you create your next form or document that requires a lot specific formatting. Chances are someone else may have had a similar need and has already created and published a template that you can use. For example, the Google Docs template gallery has templates for creating bibliographies in APA, MLA, AMA, and Chicago Style
Bibme.org Online
mageCodr generates properly formatted Creative Commons attributions for images that you find on Flickr. Once you've found a Flickr image that you want to use just paste its URL into the ImageCodr code generator to get a properly formatted image code with Creative Commons attribution.
Can I Use That image? a PDF guide to use in determining whether or not you can use a picture you've found on the Internet. To accompany that guide and provide some clarifications is a recorded short video presentation in Canva. In this short videoTake a look at the guide to finding media for classroom projects. www.freetech4teachers.com
Copyright for Teachers - A Webinar With Beth Holland and Richard Byrne
- Lessons from the $9.2 million copyright judgment against Houston ISD
- Crash Course Intellectual Property
- Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors
- Seven Free Tools for Helping Students Cite Their Work
- Copyright & Creativity - Lesson Plans for Elementary School
- Common Sense Education - Copyright Lesson Plans for Middle School
- The Debate Over Downloading Music - Lesson Plan for High School
- C-Span Classroom - The Role of Congress in Music Licensing
- US Copyright Office statements on Fair Use
- Stanford University Libraries’ Copyright and Fair Use Charts
- Kathy Schrock’s Respect for Intellectual Property
- How Not to Cite an Image
Google Documents users have a research tool at their disposal whenever they open a document. Simply open the "tools" menu in Google Docs and select "research." Once that selection is made a Google search box opens in the right margin of the screen. Resources selected from that search pane will be accompanied by a link placed in the footnotes of the document. The formatting of the citations often leaves something to be desired, but at least it gets students in the habit of keeping track of resources.
**One of the most useful Add-ons for Google Documents is the EasyBib Bibliography Creator. The EasyBib Bibliography Creator makes it easy to properly cite resources and format a bibliography in APA, MLA, or Chicago style. The Add-on allows students to enter book titles, authors' names, websites, webpages, and periodical titles. The Add-on will then create a citation that is added to a page at the end of students' documents. Click here for directions for the process of using this add-on.
EasyBib Create accurate MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations in seconds by scanning a book bar code or by typing the name of a book. Build and manage your works cited. Once done, email your citations and then export your citations to EasyBib.com's popular bibliography management service. Has published a new video that could help some students understand why they need to cite the sources of their information. The short video seems to be designed for an elementary school audience although some of the points in the video will require you to clarify and deepen the explanations.
Copyright Decision Tool The Copyright Decision Tool helps teachers decide whether they can use print materials, artistic works or audiovisual materials without getting copyright permission.
Cite This For Me is a free service designed to help students keep track of the resources that they use in their research work. RefMe now part of this service. Cite This For Me offers a free Chrome extension that lets students cite a webpage with just one click. The free extension will format citations in APA, MLA, Harvard, or Chicago style. Students can also use the extension to highlight and save portions of the webpages that they are citing. All Cite This For Me citations are saved in students' free Cite This For Me accounts. In their account dashboards students can edit citations as well as manually enter citations of books, journals, and other references.
Formatically this is a very easy to use platform that helps students and teachers format their essays and papers in MLA format. The process is simple and easy. Formatively provides you with an MLA format template where you will add your data and follow directions to generate a properly MLA formatted paper.
There is also an automatic formatting tool for APA style
refDot is a Google Chrome extension that could be very helpful for keeping track of and formatting references for use in bibliographies. Whenever you're viewing a website, an online book, an online journal, or a news article just click the refDot icon in your browser to open a window into which you enter all of information you need for a bibliography. For example if you were viewing a blog post on Free Technology for Teachers that you wanted to reference in a bibliography, click on refDot and the pop-up box will prompt you to enter the date of access, URL, title, and year.
ICyte Rather than relying on live URLs, this tool saves a Web page's content even if that Web page later shuts down or is no longer retrievable. It also saves any highlighted markings you've made on a page. ICyte is a free Web browser add-on
Candy You can use it to insert quotations from any webpage right into the document they are working on. It can also be used to generate reference information to data in a document. Another great feature from Candy is Storylines. Anything you collect or clip from online articles can be arranged into storylines with as many idea threads as you want. To use Candy, you need to register with a valid email address. Once registered, all you Candys will be stored in the site’s server so you can access them across different devices. Watch the video
Stanford University Libraries' Copyright & Fair Use guide. This guide should be bookmarked by anyone who has questions about copyright and fair use. The guide covers everything from the basics of copyright to the nuances of fair use. There is even a section devoted to academic fair use that should be of particular interest to teachers who publish lessons online. In the guide you will find templates for requesting permission to use copyrighted works. Use the template if you're in doubt about whether or not you can use someone else's work. And if you're looking to publish on your own website or blog, pay attention to the section titled Websites: Five Ways to Stay Out of Trouble. (www.freetech4teachers.com )
Five Resources for Teaching and Learning about Copyright
Photos for Class is a free Creative Commons image search engine. The service is designed to help students find and accurately cite images. Images downloaded through Photos for Class have proper attributions automatically added to them. This service is now available in Edmodo too.
Photos for Class can be found in the Edmodo app store. The app is free. You can install Photos for Class Edmodo app with just a couple of clicks. Once installed all of your students can start searching for and downloading Creative Commons licensed images.
How to use Flickr CC Attribution Helper video
Research Building Blocks: “Cite Those Sources!” gr 3-5 lesson
Plagiarism.org features a plethora of excellent materials and citation sources that are all available online or in the form of PDF documents , free to download and use.
RefME is a service designed to help students create citations and organize bibliographies. The RefME Safari extension allows students to save web addresses in their RefME accounts by simply tapping the share button in Safari and selecting RefME. The video below provides an overview of the RefME Safari extension. Complete directions are available at the bottom of this page.The free RefME iPad app enables students to scan the barcode on a book, periodical, CD cases, and many other media cases to have a citation formatted for that item
Writinghouse free bibliography and citation maker. It allows you to automatically generate citations in various referencing styles including: MLA, APA, Chicago, and Harvard. We have been experimenting with it for awhile and found it really worth the shout-out here.
Besides the citation and bibliography features, Writinghouse also offers other interesting tools to help students with their writing process. For instance, the Word Counter is a great way to keep track of the number of words you have written in an essay. There is also a section in this website featuring some good resources to help you learn more about the concept of bibliography and how to create one using different styles.
Citefast
Citefast is an easy to use web tool for creating citations. Students can utilize it to generate citations in different formats: APA (6th edition), MAL (7th edition), or Chicago (16th edition). The site provides a wide variety of features citation creation super easy and all for free. Some of these features include: automatic look up of journals, books and webpages; easy cut and paste and exporting to MS Word; In-text citation generator with guide and many more.
Mendeley Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Here is what you can do with Mendeley:
- Automatically generate bibliographies
- Collaborate easily with other researchers online
- Easily import papers from other research software
- Find relevant papers based on what you’re reading
- Access your papers from anywhere online
- Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app
Copyright Flowchart for Your Class Scroll down to see the chart
4 Great Web Tools to Help Teachers and Librarians Learn about Copyright
Five Minute Film Festival on Copyright and Fair Use for Educators
From Edutopia - a collection of short videos discussing copyright and fair use.
Bibliography and citation tools
The tools included in this list are among the best web services you can find online to help with the integration of bibliography and citations into documents. They cover different style formats including APA, MLA, and Chicago.
How to Create a Bibliography in Google Documents
Five-Minute Film Festival: Copyright and Fair Use for Educators, by Amy Borovoy In K-12 education, it's a challenge to navigate the copyright and fair use waters. What can educators use? How can they use it? VideoAmy has collected some fun, engaging videos to help teachers and students understand the confusing subject.
Debbie Abilock • iCyte's embedded in NoodleTools http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/tutorials/icyte/ so you can archive web pages and pdfs, take and organize notes into an outline, and cite sources in the same place!
Citelighter - The fully automated bibliography, research, citation, and internet highlighting tool. a helpful tool for anyone trying to organize their online and or offline research findings. At its core Citelighter is a browser extension (available for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari) that enables you to select sections of webpages and save them along with the important information needed to create an APA, MLA, or Chicago style bibliography. If you have pieces of text from books and journals that you want to include in your list of citations, you can add those in Citelighter too.
OuiBox - A great site for writing. Cites sources, annotates, and more as you write.
Guide on How to Cite Social Media Using Both MLA and APA styles
Visual Guide to Citing Tweets in Academic Papers
Your Visual Guide to Citing Tweets Properly in Academic Papers
Virginia Glatzer •OneNote is fabulous for annotating You can "print" any type of file, including a PDF, directly into OneNote and mark it up. OneNote is now available for the first time and for free for Mac users. With this new update, OneNote becomes available on all platforms including: PC, Mac, Windows TabLets, Windows Phone, iPad, iPhone, Android and the Web.
Besides Evernote, OneNote is secondary to none in terms of the powerful note taking features it provides. I have been using i
Bibliography Templates for Google Documents The Google Docs template gallery is a good place to check out before you create your next form or document that requires a lot specific formatting. Chances are someone else may have had a similar need and has already created and published a template that you can use. For example, the Google Docs template gallery has templates for creating bibliographies in APA, MLA, AMA, and Chicago Style
Bibme.org Online
mageCodr generates properly formatted Creative Commons attributions for images that you find on Flickr. Once you've found a Flickr image that you want to use just paste its URL into the ImageCodr code generator to get a properly formatted image code with Creative Commons attribution.
Articles
What does it mean to be literate?
A shocking number of young people can't separate fact from fiction online The Hechinger Report
The overwhelming majority of young people are unable to sift through online information and separate fact, fiction and opinion, according to a new study from Stanford University. Among the hair-raising findings: 93 percent of college students tested were unable to flag a lobbyist's website as a biased source of information. Younger students fared poorly, too. READ MORE
Information Overload
"Our task, from a literacy point of view, is deciding what information to use and how to present it so it successfully competes for our audience’s attention. This is why, as we teach students how to write, we must also – and for the same reasons – teach them how to communicate with images, sound, animation and video." author David Warlick
Information Literacy Makes all the Wrong Assumptions
Librarians are encouraged to reflect on their role as a facilitator for both reading and writing about information.
Web Science: a new field of study
A new field of study is emerging at M.I.T. and Southhampton in Great Britian that emphasizes social networking.
Why more schools aren’t teaching web literacy—and how they can start
Driving Questions: Students Uncovering Amazing Content Through Inquiry
A shocking number of young people can't separate fact from fiction online The Hechinger Report
The overwhelming majority of young people are unable to sift through online information and separate fact, fiction and opinion, according to a new study from Stanford University. Among the hair-raising findings: 93 percent of college students tested were unable to flag a lobbyist's website as a biased source of information. Younger students fared poorly, too. READ MORE
Information Overload
"Our task, from a literacy point of view, is deciding what information to use and how to present it so it successfully competes for our audience’s attention. This is why, as we teach students how to write, we must also – and for the same reasons – teach them how to communicate with images, sound, animation and video." author David Warlick
Information Literacy Makes all the Wrong Assumptions
Librarians are encouraged to reflect on their role as a facilitator for both reading and writing about information.
Web Science: a new field of study
A new field of study is emerging at M.I.T. and Southhampton in Great Britian that emphasizes social networking.
Why more schools aren’t teaching web literacy—and how they can start
Driving Questions: Students Uncovering Amazing Content Through Inquiry
- Takes essential questions and transforms them into action
- Read article with resources
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the enemy of creative thinking. Students who plagiarize often do so because they don't want to bother thinking hard to come up with their own ideas, With the uptake of digital media and the widespread of mobile handheld devices, plagiarism becomes a serious threat in the face of productive scholarly achievement.
Below is a set of video clips compiled from Please Don' Cheat that you can share with your students to help them become aware of the dangers of plagiarism.
Copyright Flowchart for Your Class Scroll down to see the chart .
An Innovative Way to Deal With Plagiarism
Free Online Plagiarism Checker FreePlagiarismChecker.pro is plagiarism scanner that detects plagiarism in your text. [This] free checking engine will scan your text and tell you if it contains duplicate content.
Fair Use Evaluator Collect, organize & archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation. Provide you with a time-stamped, PDF ...
Google Docs plagiarism checker add-on that enables users to check their texts directly in their writing environment, without leaving Google Docs.
Copyright Checklist Based on the four factors of fair use—purpose, nature, amount and effect—the checklist was created to help educators, librarians and others evaluate content uses to determine if fair use applies.
Copyright Poster and Web Tools
Plagiarism.org features a plethora of excellent materials and citation sources that are all available online or in the form of PDF documents , free to download and use.
Plagiarism Scenario Videos
Purdue's OWL website is a goof place for students and parents for questions not only about plagiarism, but also for questions about all parts of the writing process.
Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island has created a complete site of videos, slideshows, and other information specifically designed for teachers to help teachers navigate through the murky waters of copyright and Fair Use.
A Magical Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism is an infographic guide created by Kate Hart. A Magical Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism uses a Harry Potter theme to succinctly explain to students when and why they need to properly cite the sources of their information. Visit Kate Hart's blog post about it as she goes into more depth on the topic of plagiarism.
What Is Plagiarism and How to Avoid It? 10 Great Video Tutorials for Students
Tools and methods for detecting plagiarism:
The first thing I do when I want to check a student's work for plagiarism is to do a quick search on Google. If you notice that a student has strung together some phrases that you don't think they've written, put the suspected phrase inside quotation marks and search. You may also want to search on Google Scholar.
Plagiarism Checker created as a project for the University of Maryland, is an easy-to-use tool for detecting plagiarism. Simply enter a chunk of text into the search box and the Plagiarism Checker will tell you if and from where something was plagiarized.
Grammarly Grammarly has a plagiarism checking service available for teachers and students. This feature lets users copy and paste text or upload a file to check for plagiarism. The interface of Grammarly’s website makes it easy for any user to check for plagiarism, grammar, and even generate a citation.
Paper Rater is a free service designed to help high school and college students improve their writing. Paper Rater does basic spelling and grammar checks, but the real value of Paper Rater is that it tells students if their papers have elements of plagiarism. Paper Rater scans students' papers then gives students an estimate of the likelihood that someone might think that their papers were plagiarized.
Plagiarism Detection Tools
The copy-paste culture is so widespread now among students. Teachers are left with some limited options to prevent plagiarism. One of them is to use the same technology that is causing this plagiarism to fight it
✅Which plagiarism checker is better than Turnitin? PlagiarismCheck.org is an option that’s not Turnitin but can be better in many key aspects. With a modern, flexible algorithm that’s all about saving your time, responsive support, and unlimited training, this one has quite a few advantages to offer. With PlagiarismCheck, you can find out if your students copy fragments of texts from each other, give them a chance to pre-check their essays for accidental plagiarism, and see if the stylistic patterns correspond to the alleged author. Administrators also note that this service is easy-to-integrate, with flexible assignment settings in Canvas and Moodle. Add the subscription prices that allow saving up to half of the money you’d spend on Turnitin, and you’ll get the general idea about this anti-plagiarism tool.
PlagiarismCheck.org, and here’s why.
Turnitin ( there is a cost but worth looking at to see its power )Teachers using Turnitin's grading tools save time grading student papers while offering more meaningful feedback and ensuring their originality. Turnitin for iPad allows instructors to:
- Leave comments, marks, and highlights
- Grade with interactive rubrics
- Add a voice comment
- View an originality report
- Navigate between papers, assignments, and classes
- Grade offline
Writecheck
Avoiding Plagiarism
The Libraries of the Northeastern Universities provides a tutorial with concrete examples of what constitutes plagiarism. Powerpoint
ReadWriteThink-Copyright - Lesson Plans and Links on Plagiarism
Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers 1) strategies of awareness, 2) strategies of prevention and 3) strategies of detection.
The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age
Top 8 Plagiarism Detector Tools for Teachers
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Copyright, Fair Use & Intellectual Property Resources Fair Use Learn how to "flex your fair use muscles"!
Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a set of comprehensive lesson plans about copyright simply titled Teaching Copyright. Teaching Copyright contains five lesson plans. Each lesson plan includes printable worksheets, readings, and suggested activities. For teachers looking for a little more information than is available in the lesson plans, the EFF has a good list of additional resources including videos on the topics of copyright and fair use. To stay up to date on new developments in copyright and fair use, you may want to follow the EFF blog.
To understand the importance of "transformativeness" when building an argument for fair use, checkout the Center for Socia Media's videoclips- such as User's Rights, Section 107
For an great example of "character appropriation," check out Stanford's Center for Internet and Society: A Fair(y) Tale
High school librarian Joyce Valenza has posted links to many copyright-free materials (images, music, video) on her Classroom Resources for Copyright & Fair Use wiki. Be sure to visit and learn about Creative Commons options for sharing original works - including your own student-created content!
Tool for reasoning fair use - This PDF form from Kristin Hokanson is a great organizer to help you build an argument for fair use Kristen Hokanson. Kristin has also posted a Google form version of the reasoning tool.
David Warlick: Teacher permission and student permission letters
Cyberbee: Student Copyright Q&A gr 2-6
Copyright Kids is an excellent resources for students/teachers/parents wanting to learn about copyright laws/issues. This site has it all pertaining to copyright such as: examples, FAQ, definitions, and more.
Copyright on Campus which is a six minute overview of what copyright means for teachers. For a much more in-depth exploration of what copyright means for educators I highly recommend Dr. Wes Fryer's presentation Copyright for Educators.
Shared Creations: making Use of Creative Commons handbook for educators
Copyright Site! This site is dedicated to helping educators everywhere in the United States understand the issue of copyright. As an educator, there are three main issues you need to understand. They are: the Public Domain, Fair Use, and Intellectual Property. We have tried to make them as simple as possible, and have included more complex definitions and explanations in more detailed legal-like form if you would like to do more research.
Public Domain Explained by Common Craft is a video that answers some common questions about the differences between works that are in the public domain and those that are copyrighted. The video also teaches how works end up in the public domain and some tips for finding media that is in the public domain.
Copyright term calculator " Want to know if a specific work is in the public domain? (Or, if it's not, when it will be?) Give the copyright term calculator a spin. You'll need to provide some information about the work — for example, whether it's published or unpublished.
David Warlick: Teacher permission and student permission letters
Cyberbee: Student Copyright Q&A gr 2-6
Copyright Kids is an excellent resources for students/teachers/parents wanting to learn about copyright laws/issues. This site has it all pertaining to copyright such as: examples, FAQ, definitions, and more.
Copyright on Campus which is a six minute overview of what copyright means for teachers. For a much more in-depth exploration of what copyright means for educators I highly recommend Dr. Wes Fryer's presentation Copyright for Educators.
Teaching Copyright is a curriculum from The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Consortium of College/University Media Centers: Fair Use Guidelines
Copyright With Cyberbee
Copyright Kids
Copyright Poster
Case study videos, Schoolhouse-Rock style music videos
Collection of links on the issue
Taking The Mystery Out Of Copyright
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education puts an end to copyright confusion! Middle and High School
Copyright and Creative Commons Explained by Common Craft can be very useful in helping students understand why they cannot simply copy and paste whatever images they like that they find online.
Copyright Lesson Plans and Resources
Copyright court cases
David Warlick: Teacher permission and student permission letters
Cyberbee: Student Copyright Q&A gr 2-6
Copyright Kids is an excellent resources for students/teachers/parents wanting to learn about copyright laws/issues. This site has it all pertaining to copyright such as: examples, FAQ, definitions, and more.
Copyright on Campus which is a six minute overview of what copyright means for teachers. For a much more in-depth exploration of what copyright means for educators I highly recommend Dr. Wes Fryer's presentation Copyright for Educators.
Teaching Copyright is a curriculum from The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Consortium of College/University Media Centers: Fair Use Guidelines
Copyright With Cyberbee
Copyright Kids
Copyright Poster
Case study videos, Schoolhouse-Rock style music videos
Collection of links on the issue
Taking The Mystery Out Of Copyright
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education puts an end to copyright confusion! Middle and High School
Copyright and Creative Commons Explained by Common Craft can be very useful in helping students understand why they cannot simply copy and paste whatever images they like that they find online.
Copyright Lesson Plans and Resources
Copyright court cases
Plagiarism is the enemy of creative thinking. Students who plagiarize often do so because they don't want to bother thinking hard to come up with their own ideas, With the uptake of digital media and the widespread of mobile handheld devices, plagiarism becomes a serious threat in the face of productive scholarly achievement.
Below is a set of video clips compiled from Please Don' Cheat that you can share with your students to help them become aware of the dangers of plagiarism.
- Plagiarism Explained by Common Craft.
- Video on copyright An entertaining and informative
- Plagiarism: a film by Murdokh
- Avoid Plagiarism in Research papers with paraphrases and quotations
- 10 types of plagiarism
- Question Copyright: Public Perception of Copyright video
- Copyright Clearance Center: Copyright Basics video
Copyright Flowchart for Your Class Scroll down to see the chart .
An Innovative Way to Deal With Plagiarism
Free Online Plagiarism Checker FreePlagiarismChecker.pro is plagiarism scanner that detects plagiarism in your text. [This] free checking engine will scan your text and tell you if it contains duplicate content.
Fair Use Evaluator Collect, organize & archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation. Provide you with a time-stamped, PDF ...
Google Docs plagiarism checker add-on that enables users to check their texts directly in their writing environment, without leaving Google Docs.
Copyright Checklist Based on the four factors of fair use—purpose, nature, amount and effect—the checklist was created to help educators, librarians and others evaluate content uses to determine if fair use applies.
Copyright Poster and Web Tools
Plagiarism.org features a plethora of excellent materials and citation sources that are all available online or in the form of PDF documents , free to download and use.
Plagiarism Scenario Videos
Purdue's OWL website is a goof place for students and parents for questions not only about plagiarism, but also for questions about all parts of the writing process.
Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island has created a complete site of videos, slideshows, and other information specifically designed for teachers to help teachers navigate through the murky waters of copyright and Fair Use.
A Magical Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism is an infographic guide created by Kate Hart. A Magical Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism uses a Harry Potter theme to succinctly explain to students when and why they need to properly cite the sources of their information. Visit Kate Hart's blog post about it as she goes into more depth on the topic of plagiarism.
What Is Plagiarism and How to Avoid It? 10 Great Video Tutorials for Students
Tools and methods for detecting plagiarism:
The first thing I do when I want to check a student's work for plagiarism is to do a quick search on Google. If you notice that a student has strung together some phrases that you don't think they've written, put the suspected phrase inside quotation marks and search. You may also want to search on Google Scholar.
Plagiarism Checker created as a project for the University of Maryland, is an easy-to-use tool for detecting plagiarism. Simply enter a chunk of text into the search box and the Plagiarism Checker will tell you if and from where something was plagiarized.
Grammarly Grammarly has a plagiarism checking service available for teachers and students. This feature lets users copy and paste text or upload a file to check for plagiarism. The interface of Grammarly’s website makes it easy for any user to check for plagiarism, grammar, and even generate a citation.
Paper Rater is a free service designed to help high school and college students improve their writing. Paper Rater does basic spelling and grammar checks, but the real value of Paper Rater is that it tells students if their papers have elements of plagiarism. Paper Rater scans students' papers then gives students an estimate of the likelihood that someone might think that their papers were plagiarized.
Plagiarism Detection Tools
The copy-paste culture is so widespread now among students. Teachers are left with some limited options to prevent plagiarism. One of them is to use the same technology that is causing this plagiarism to fight it
✅Which plagiarism checker is better than Turnitin? PlagiarismCheck.org is an option that’s not Turnitin but can be better in many key aspects. With a modern, flexible algorithm that’s all about saving your time, responsive support, and unlimited training, this one has quite a few advantages to offer. With PlagiarismCheck, you can find out if your students copy fragments of texts from each other, give them a chance to pre-check their essays for accidental plagiarism, and see if the stylistic patterns correspond to the alleged author. Administrators also note that this service is easy-to-integrate, with flexible assignment settings in Canvas and Moodle. Add the subscription prices that allow saving up to half of the money you’d spend on Turnitin, and you’ll get the general idea about this anti-plagiarism tool.
PlagiarismCheck.org, and here’s why.
- This service spots exact matches and manipulations such as paraphrasing and stylistic changes. These features give you the possibility to detect almost any masked cheating, no matter how hard a dishonest learner tries.
- PlagiarismCheck never distracts you by flagging small words. Instead, this service focuses on semantic similarities that really matter without bringing out commonplace constructions. However, no cheating techniques like adding special symbols will escape your attention with this checker.
- The search across the internet includes several authorized databases and the repository of your institution for peer-to-peer checks. That means that you’ll definitely catch plagiarism between students and from any other sources. Then you can save time you could spend grading the unoriginal work or googling “Turnitin alternative Reddit.”
- No cooldown period or limits. PlagiarismCheck is really fast, so this service allows you to automate your work as a teacher without sacrificing precision. You can explain your grades better and get an hour or two to spare.
- The price is considerably lower, while flexibility is higher. On average, the subscriptions for this service cost 2 times less than the similar solutions by Turnitin. This is one of the main factors that make PlagiarismCheck the best Turnitin alternative.
- Success dashboards for students and institutions. This element helps educators and learners collaborate more effectively and see their space for improvement. Your students will get more responsible, and you’ll receive another opportunity to build mutual trust with them.
- Google docs add-on that makes your students more aware of their issues. As a teacher, you probably know how much stress learners undergo when thinking about accidental plagiarism. This feature can make them feel more secure and improve the quality of their papers.
Turnitin ( there is a cost but worth looking at to see its power )Teachers using Turnitin's grading tools save time grading student papers while offering more meaningful feedback and ensuring their originality. Turnitin for iPad allows instructors to:
- Leave comments, marks, and highlights
- Grade with interactive rubrics
- Add a voice comment
- View an originality report
- Navigate between papers, assignments, and classes
- Grade offline
Writecheck
- Check the paper’s highlights to ensure citations are properly used.
- Check papers for spelling, grammar, usage and more.
- See how much of your paper matches content in Writecheck database.
Avoiding Plagiarism
- Citing Sources
- BibMe - BibMe is an automated citation creator and bibliography generator that can save you loads of time building and formatting your references. Here's a 90-second video introduction to show you how simple BibMe makes it to cite your sources.
- flickr + creative commons - a guided video tour- tutorial shows how to check for copyright and creative commons licensing on flickr.
- You Quote It, You Note It - Interactive slideshow on how to avoid plagiarism
The Libraries of the Northeastern Universities provides a tutorial with concrete examples of what constitutes plagiarism. Powerpoint
ReadWriteThink-Copyright - Lesson Plans and Links on Plagiarism
Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers 1) strategies of awareness, 2) strategies of prevention and 3) strategies of detection.
The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age
Top 8 Plagiarism Detector Tools for Teachers
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
Copyright, Fair Use & Intellectual Property Resources Fair Use Learn how to "flex your fair use muscles"!
Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a set of comprehensive lesson plans about copyright simply titled Teaching Copyright. Teaching Copyright contains five lesson plans. Each lesson plan includes printable worksheets, readings, and suggested activities. For teachers looking for a little more information than is available in the lesson plans, the EFF has a good list of additional resources including videos on the topics of copyright and fair use. To stay up to date on new developments in copyright and fair use, you may want to follow the EFF blog.
To understand the importance of "transformativeness" when building an argument for fair use, checkout the Center for Socia Media's videoclips- such as User's Rights, Section 107
For an great example of "character appropriation," check out Stanford's Center for Internet and Society: A Fair(y) Tale
High school librarian Joyce Valenza has posted links to many copyright-free materials (images, music, video) on her Classroom Resources for Copyright & Fair Use wiki. Be sure to visit and learn about Creative Commons options for sharing original works - including your own student-created content!
Tool for reasoning fair use - This PDF form from Kristin Hokanson is a great organizer to help you build an argument for fair use Kristen Hokanson. Kristin has also posted a Google form version of the reasoning tool.
David Warlick: Teacher permission and student permission letters
Cyberbee: Student Copyright Q&A gr 2-6
Copyright Kids is an excellent resources for students/teachers/parents wanting to learn about copyright laws/issues. This site has it all pertaining to copyright such as: examples, FAQ, definitions, and more.
Copyright on Campus which is a six minute overview of what copyright means for teachers. For a much more in-depth exploration of what copyright means for educators I highly recommend Dr. Wes Fryer's presentation Copyright for Educators.
Shared Creations: making Use of Creative Commons handbook for educators
Copyright Site! This site is dedicated to helping educators everywhere in the United States understand the issue of copyright. As an educator, there are three main issues you need to understand. They are: the Public Domain, Fair Use, and Intellectual Property. We have tried to make them as simple as possible, and have included more complex definitions and explanations in more detailed legal-like form if you would like to do more research.
Public Domain Explained by Common Craft is a video that answers some common questions about the differences between works that are in the public domain and those that are copyrighted. The video also teaches how works end up in the public domain and some tips for finding media that is in the public domain.
Copyright term calculator " Want to know if a specific work is in the public domain? (Or, if it's not, when it will be?) Give the copyright term calculator a spin. You'll need to provide some information about the work — for example, whether it's published or unpublished.
David Warlick: Teacher permission and student permission letters
Cyberbee: Student Copyright Q&A gr 2-6
Copyright Kids is an excellent resources for students/teachers/parents wanting to learn about copyright laws/issues. This site has it all pertaining to copyright such as: examples, FAQ, definitions, and more.
Copyright on Campus which is a six minute overview of what copyright means for teachers. For a much more in-depth exploration of what copyright means for educators I highly recommend Dr. Wes Fryer's presentation Copyright for Educators.
Teaching Copyright is a curriculum from The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Consortium of College/University Media Centers: Fair Use Guidelines
Copyright With Cyberbee
Copyright Kids
Copyright Poster
Case study videos, Schoolhouse-Rock style music videos
Collection of links on the issue
Taking The Mystery Out Of Copyright
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education puts an end to copyright confusion! Middle and High School
Copyright and Creative Commons Explained by Common Craft can be very useful in helping students understand why they cannot simply copy and paste whatever images they like that they find online.
Copyright Lesson Plans and Resources
- Copyright Lesson Plan (Grade 8)
- Copyright Kids (Elementary/Middle)
- Copyright Protection and Permission (Middle school)
- Copyright Web (Elementary/Middle)
- Fair Use Evaluator
- Join the © Team: Educator Resources (K-5)
- Join the © Team: Librarian Resources (K-5)
- Plagiarism Workshop (9-12)
- Teaching Copyright (9-12)
- Copyright Laws: From Digital Reprints to Downloads (6-8)
- Campaigning for Fair Use: PSAs on Copyright Awareness (6-8)
- Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing (6-8)
- Online Music (9-12)
- Copyright Alliance Education Foundation (K-12)
- Steven Anderson's Creative Commons and Copyright Livebinder
- Library of Congress: Taking the Mystery out of Copyright (3-6)
- Understanding YouTube and Digital Citizenship
Copyright court cases
- Music copyright case (YouTube overlay)
- Song parody copyright case (Orbison) (2 Live Crew)
- Happy Birthday: YouTube 1 You Tube 2 Snopes
- Plagiarism copyright case
- Valedictorian copyright case
- Tattoo copyright case 2011
- Tattoo copyright case 2005
- Political commercial copyright case
David Warlick: Teacher permission and student permission letters
Cyberbee: Student Copyright Q&A gr 2-6
Copyright Kids is an excellent resources for students/teachers/parents wanting to learn about copyright laws/issues. This site has it all pertaining to copyright such as: examples, FAQ, definitions, and more.
Copyright on Campus which is a six minute overview of what copyright means for teachers. For a much more in-depth exploration of what copyright means for educators I highly recommend Dr. Wes Fryer's presentation Copyright for Educators.
Teaching Copyright is a curriculum from The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Consortium of College/University Media Centers: Fair Use Guidelines
Copyright With Cyberbee
Copyright Kids
Copyright Poster
Case study videos, Schoolhouse-Rock style music videos
Collection of links on the issue
Taking The Mystery Out Of Copyright
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education puts an end to copyright confusion! Middle and High School
Copyright and Creative Commons Explained by Common Craft can be very useful in helping students understand why they cannot simply copy and paste whatever images they like that they find online.
Copyright Lesson Plans and Resources
- Copyright Lesson Plan (Grade 8)
- Copyright Kids (Elementary/Middle)
- Copyright Protection and Permission (Middle school)
- Copyright Web (Elementary/Middle)
- Fair Use Evaluator
- Join the © Team: Educator Resources (K-5)
- Join the © Team: Librarian Resources (K-5)
- Plagiarism Workshop (9-12)
- Teaching Copyright (9-12)
- Copyright Laws: From Digital Reprints to Downloads (6-8)
- Campaigning for Fair Use: PSAs on Copyright Awareness (6-8)
- Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing (6-8)
- Online Music (9-12)
- Copyright Alliance Education Foundation (K-12)
- Steven Anderson's Creative Commons and Copyright Livebinder
- Library of Congress: Taking the Mystery out of Copyright (3-6)
- Understanding YouTube and Digital Citizenship
Copyright court cases
The advent of social media platforms along with revolutionary changes in technology have brought about a new ecology of information which has the potential of fundamentally altering the way we learn and teach -- if only we open our classrooms up to this new reality.
Be Copyright Cool is a step by step guide that will help your students better understand what copyright is all about and how they can secure their works using copyright. Click on the picture below to access the Google Doc slide
Creative Commons
Get CC Savvy. Each module contains a short video about the topic followed by a suggested activity to complete to help students understand Creative Commons in practice.
Get CC Savvy from P2PU could be an excellent resource for any high school or college student to use on his or her own to gain an understanding of what Creative Commons licensing means in practice. Don't overlook the discussions that accompany the activities as the comments there add value to the exercises
Creative Commons Videos teach your students about Creative Commons, how to use it, and copyright
Creative Commons Search - Search for anything with a Creative Commons license across sites like Flickr, Google, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
Intro to Creative Commons Video Learn how to use the Creative Commons tools, and also how to search for copyright-free content online. Creative Commons license chooser helps you select the right license for your work. To select the right license for your work just answer a few questions and a license will be recommended to you.
If you're not sure what Creative Commons is and or how it differs from Copyright, I recommend watching Copyright and Creative Commons Explained by Common Craft.
Copyright and Creative Commons Explained by Common Craft can be very useful in helping students understand why they cannot simply copy and paste whatever images they like that they find online.
Creative Commons Spectrum of Rights comic
Creative Commons
Creative Commons and the classroom
Copyright on campus video
Creative Commons: Search Tool
Creative commons Bulletin board (printable)
Generate a Creative Commons License for your work. You need to follow the steps in the graphic. After filling it up you can grab the code and use it on your class website or anywhere else on the web.
Get CC Savvy from P2PU could be an excellent resource for any high school or college student to use on his or her own to gain an understanding of what Creative Commons licensing means in practice. Don't overlook the discussions that accompany the activities as the comments there add value to the exercises
Creative Commons Videos teach your students about Creative Commons, how to use it, and copyright
Creative Commons Search - Search for anything with a Creative Commons license across sites like Flickr, Google, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
Intro to Creative Commons Video Learn how to use the Creative Commons tools, and also how to search for copyright-free content online. Creative Commons license chooser helps you select the right license for your work. To select the right license for your work just answer a few questions and a license will be recommended to you.
If you're not sure what Creative Commons is and or how it differs from Copyright, I recommend watching Copyright and Creative Commons Explained by Common Craft.
Copyright and Creative Commons Explained by Common Craft can be very useful in helping students understand why they cannot simply copy and paste whatever images they like that they find online.
Creative Commons Spectrum of Rights comic
Creative Commons
Creative Commons and the classroom
Copyright on campus video
Creative Commons: Search Tool
Creative commons Bulletin board (printable)
Generate a Creative Commons License for your work. You need to follow the steps in the graphic. After filling it up you can grab the code and use it on your class website or anywhere else on the web.
Videos