Monday, October 28, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
Tech Integration Resources
Welcome Teachers & Staff to
Your Tech Integration Resource Space.
Here are a few technologies currently being integrated at RMS:
 An interactive online classroom and collaboration space with a layout much like Facebook.  
Looking for tech tools to enhance learning in your classroom? Try a few of the resources below:
Professional Development Made Social
Build your Personal Learning Network (PLN) through social media. Follow collegues, authors, and educational "gurus."
Follow your library media specialist on Twitter (it's fun, really!): Follow Mrs. Obando or try . . . |
Sunday, October 13, 2013
How to Find Stuff Online
How do you know if what you're finding on the web is reliable? Look at the "InfOSavvy" tips on how to "surf" safely and be smart about the information you are finding.
Reliable ResOurce
What is a Reliable Resource?
A way to know if your source of information is reliable is to check it for the following:
ACCURACY
AUTHORITY
BIAS
CURRANCY
RELEVANCE
ACCURACY
Currently no web standards exist to ensure accuracy.
AUTHORITY
Anyone can publish anything on the internet.
.net = Internet Service Provider .com = Commercial Site .edu = Higher education .mil = Military Site ~ ("tilde") = Personal Site .org = Organization; may be charitable, religious, or a lobbying group. Other domains include: .museum, .info, .biz
BIAS
View any web page as you would an infomercial on T.V. and ask yourself why it was written and for whom.
CURRENCY
If information is outdated it may not be accurate.
RELEVANCE
You want to make sure a web site you find covers the information you are seeking.
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Created by Rosalyn Obando on March 27, 2012.
Resources used to create this document:
Beck, S. E. (2009). The Good, the bad, & the ugly: Why it’s a good idea to evaluation web sources. New Mexico State University Library. Retrieved from http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/ evalcrit.html.
Johns Hopkins University. (2010). Evaluating information found on the internet. Retrieved from http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/ index.html.
Kapoun, J. (1998). Five criteria for evaluating web pages. Cornell University Library. Retrieved from http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/ webcrit.html.
Kupersmith, J. (2010). Evaluating web pages: Techniques to apply & questions to ask. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved from http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html.
Lesley University Library. (2007). Evaluating web sites: Criteria for the classroom. Lesley University. Retrieved from http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/research/evaluating_web.html.
Piper, P. S. (2000). Better read that again: web hoaxes and misinformation. Searcher 8(8). Information Today. Retrieved from http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep00/piper.htm.
Schrock, K. (2010). Classroom resources. Discovery Education. Retrieved from http://school.discoveryeducation.com/ schrockguide/eval.html.
University of Southern Maine. (2004). Checklist for Evaluating web resources. Retrieved from http://library.usm.maine.edu/research/researchguides/ webeval.php?ID=0.
Resources used to create this document:
Beck, S. E. (2009). The Good, the bad, & the ugly: Why it’s a good idea to evaluation web sources. New Mexico State University Library. Retrieved from http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/ evalcrit.html.
Johns Hopkins University. (2010). Evaluating information found on the internet. Retrieved from http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/ index.html.
Kapoun, J. (1998). Five criteria for evaluating web pages. Cornell University Library. Retrieved from http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/ webcrit.html.
Kupersmith, J. (2010). Evaluating web pages: Techniques to apply & questions to ask. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved from http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html.
Lesley University Library. (2007). Evaluating web sites: Criteria for the classroom. Lesley University. Retrieved from http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/research/evaluating_web.html.
Piper, P. S. (2000). Better read that again: web hoaxes and misinformation. Searcher 8(8). Information Today. Retrieved from http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep00/piper.htm.
Schrock, K. (2010). Classroom resources. Discovery Education. Retrieved from http://school.discoveryeducation.com/ schrockguide/eval.html.
University of Southern Maine. (2004). Checklist for Evaluating web resources. Retrieved from http://library.usm.maine.edu/research/researchguides/ webeval.php?ID=0.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Why Not Just Google It?
Why not just "google" to get information for my research paper?
Top 10 Reasons Why not to Google for School Research*:
1) Google is an adult search engine, created for adult like searches2) Google is geared towards commerece, not education.
3) Google automatically combines keywords and may give results with unrelated information.
4) Google does not consider authority (who posts info).
5) Google does not consider reliability (accuracy) of information gathered.
6) Google does not consider bias of information.
7) Google likely finds an overwhelming amount of results which is very inefficient for students to weed out unrelated information.
8) Google does not consider readability for students' reading levels.
9) Google has a page ranking system where likely, the best educationally sound result is not in the top 10 hits.
And . . .
10) Google functions based upon a quick parallel processing algorithm that groups results based upon likeness with the keywords.
* Found at www.merton.k12.wi.us/faculty/wieczorekS/nogoogle.cfm on Mar. 26, 2012.