New Literacies are important for anyone who learns online.

Thomas Friedman's NY Times article on the "flattening" of the world:
http://nyti.ms/1DxtxoZ

Online learning:

Explore
Experience
Learn
Create

Barriers:

Unproductive searches
Too many websites
Unreliable information
Acceptance of everything
Desire to finish quickly

The solutions:
Modeling (Show them how!)
Accountability (Make it part of their grade.)

Closed-ended Questions:
Yes/No or very short answer

Open-ended questions:
Require more explanation

Write down an open-ended question about your topic, and share it here:
http://padlet.com/MrsHaglin/WebResearch1

For your students:

Table for converting questions to searches:
http://bit.ly/1FrGT5r

Tell us how you choose websites:
http://today.io/xPXN

An example of demonstrating quality searching for your students:
http://quick.as/eOPmse4q

Search Strategies:
*More than one search engine
*Search using Keywords (not questions)
*If unsuccessful, change keywords
*Use URL/Domain Name to decide whether to click
*Read description
*Right-click and open new tabs to keep resources organized

For the teacher:

Want to make your own screencast to demonstrate web research?
Webcasting Software/Sites:
http://bit.ly/1C8J624

Evaluation:

How do you decide whether to use a website in your research?

How do you know if the information on a web site is true?

Strategies for verifying a website's reliability:
*URL/Domain Name
*Description
*Professional appearance
*Content
*Links to and from page
*About/Page Info
*Home page
*Author

Classroom Assessment Tool for evaluating websites in research:
http://goo.gl/forms/SYnyxPgw4K

Why shouldn't you allow students to directly cite Wikipedia?
http://quick.as/ydnet5d3

Teach note-taking

Model how students will be expected to synthesize the information, pulling from many sources to create a new perspective.

Unless the product itself is part of your content (i.e. writing), allow choice in how the content is presented.