PowerPoints to Download:

• Changing the Questions
• Research is Everybody's Business
• Searching Workshop

Resources in the PowerPoints and Beyond:

Changing the Questions: Reworking the Assignment

• What kind of research projects are meaningful and memorable and inspire real learning?
• Changing the questions Question organizer
• Information Literacy Lessons
• Some examples--Best WebQuests, Some of ours
• Planning a research assignment checklist
• Thesis Development--Five tests, video coaching thesis
• Social Studies Question Stems
• Addressing Higher Order Thinking
• WebQuest Taskonomy
• WebQuests (SDSU) Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
• Constructivist Checklist

Lesson Links

• Joyce's Lessons jvles.html
• Online Lessons Supporting Information Literacy infolitles.html
• Joyce's Favorite Lesson Plan Sites
• Tom March's New Best WebQuests http://bestwebquests.com/
• Marco Polo http://www.marcopolo-education.org/

Planning 

• Planning a research assignment checklist
• Research Guide
• Research Process
• Changing the questions Question organizer
• Some examples Best WebQuests, Some of ours, WebQuest Taskonomy
• Approaches to Research
• Addressing Higher Order Thinking 
• Thesis Development--Five tests, video coaching thesis
• What Makes an Effective Thesis
• Coaching Students to Develop Proficient Thesis Statements
• Social Studies Question Stems
• Involving Parents in the Changes, Explaining I-Search to Parents http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/80.html

Gathering: Evaluation of Resources

• Results lists activity
• List of evaluation tools / CARRDSS, Evaluating Online Resources
• Annotating
• Organizers--analysis, synthesis, and organization of knowledge Organizer resource page (scavenger hunt)
• Inspiration

Organizing / Synthesis

• "Mixed Nuts" and short article synthesis activities (From Notes to Nuts (A Visual Approach to Notetaking), How to Create Mixed Nuts / Mixed Nuts
• Weaving Quotes into your Writing
• Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting
• Power Pointlessness

Documentation: Ethics

• Works Cited vs. Works Consulted
• Plagiarism PowerPoint
• Paper Mills
• Cyberplagiarism activity from Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era (Lathrop and Foss)
• Virtual Salt --Antiplagiarism Strategies
• Is it plagiarism?
• Frances Jacobson's Zippy Scenarios
• Doug Johnson's Ethics in Cyberspace
• Guidelines for Documentation Formats
• Sample Acknowledgments
• MLA Style Sheet, Middle School version
• Antiplagiarism Resources
• Springfield Academic Integrity Policy

How do we affect change?

• What does an "information literate" school look like? Defining information literacy. (Models)
• Information Literacy is More than Computer Literacy

Searching Workshop:

• Download the PowerPoint
• SearchQuest
• Springfield Township HS Virtual Library
• Springfield Search Page
• Springfield Catalogs and Databases
• Debbie Abilock's Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need
• Berkeley Finding Information on the Internet
• U. Albany How to Find a Search Engine or Subject Directory
• Laura Cohen's Second Generation Searching
• 3M Chart (Seven Steps Toward Better Searching), Brainstormer, Planners, concept of "mining", Four Nets
• The value of subject directories KidsClick, LII.org, BigChalk/Homework Central
• Schlessinger video clips, MAR*TEC clip
• Pathfinders as student assignments or teacher/librarian guides
• Role of Pathfinders in helping students and teachers
• What's Not on the Web?
• Research 101 University of Washington

Assessment/Evaluation of Student Work

• Reflecting on the research process
• Research CheckBric
• Portfolio of Student Work
• Using Tuning Protocols
• This year's videos
• Principal's video

Lingering questions, ideas, etc.

Essential question: How can the ethical use of information be taught?

Discussion: What does an "information literate" school look like (revisted)?

School Librarians: Field Guide to an Evolving Species

Resources

Graphic Organizers

Rubrics

On Questions

Teacher Tools

Models to Discuss

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