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Power Searching:
Digital Information Fluency at your Fingertips June 25, 2007 Find today’s workshop materials online using only the clues on this page.
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Power Searching:
Digital Information Fluency at your Fingertips Carl Heine Dennis O’Connor Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
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21
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Century Information Fluency
Mission --
build the capacity of librarians, teachers and students to Locate , Evaluate and Use digital information resources efficiently, effectively and ethically … … by providing professional development and instructional resources.
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21
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Century Information Fluency
History --
A 6+ year project funded by federal ED grants working initially with Middle and High Schools in Illinois. We are now involved in expanding information fluency in lower grades, higher education and globally.
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21
st
Century Information Fluency
Traditional Library Skills Technology Skills Our niche
: the intersection of Information Literacy and Technology Literacy that enables people to locate, evaluate and use digital information resources
efficiently, effectively and ethically.
“Fluency” encompasses the competencies that are required. Successful searching and evaluation requires multi-tasking, critical thinking, flexibility, and is mastered only by practice. Information Fluency and NETS-S 3
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Digital Information Fluency – Big 6
2. Locate 3. Evaluate 4. Use Ethically
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21
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Century Skills
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Today’s Workshop Materials
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events > Jun 25, 2007 > Agenda page
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Verifying the credibility of information Finding better keywords Translating a question into a query Choosing the best database Recognizing information that’s relevant
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Free Resources available in the Full Circle Resource Kit
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Group Search
How many buffalo are there in North America today?
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Getting Started
What do you already know?
?
Methods that may be used, depending on what you know: Subject directory Browsing Search engine Table of Contents Flip through the pages Index
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Getting Started: Subject Directory
Little knowledge of the subject or how to find info
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Getting Started: Browsing
Knowledge of the subject and/or an appropriate site
How many buffalo are there in North America today?
NATURE: American Buffalo: Spirit of a Nation - Buffalo Nation
Like people, the
buffalo North America
-- known to scientists as Bison bison -- came to long ago from Asia, crossing a land bridge that once connected
...
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/
buffalo
/html/intro.html - 2k pages Note this Cached Similar
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Getting Started: Search Engine
Knowledge how to turn a question into a query
How many buffalo are there in North America today?
Write your query on the index card provided.
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Buffalo Search Challenge
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Common Search Engine Mistakes
What doesn’t work? What works best?
One word query (missing important ideas) 2 – 3 strong keywords Nouns, numbers Too many words Keywords with multiple meanings Progressively more specific keywords Looking in the wrong database Generally, Google, then multiple databases
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Translating a question into a query
Starts with a question or a problem to solve.
Task: Translate a natural language question or statement into language that is understood by a search engine.
Search engines differ in how they process queries, but for the most part, what works on one big commercial search engine tends to work on the others. Search engines perform a variety of literal matching functions with Boolean and special operators.
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Translating a question into a query
Which of the following is an effective query for ' find the top speed of earth's fastest animal '?
speed fastest animal what is earth’s fastest animal top speed earth’s fastest animal
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Question to query checklist
1. How many key concepts (important ideas) are found in the question?
2. How many key concepts will I search for?
3.
What keywords are probably effective “as is?” 4. For which concepts are more effective keywords probably needed?
5. Are there hyponyms or professional language for any of the intermediate words?
6. Are there words that have multiple meanings?
7. Did I use any stop words or clutter words?
8. Did I spell the words correctly?
9. Did I put the most important words first?
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1. How many key concepts (important ideas) are found in the question?
2. How many key concepts will I search for?
3.
What keywords are probably effective “as is?” 4. For which concepts are more effective keywords probably needed?
5. Are there hyponyms or professional language for any of the intermediate words?
6. Are there words that have multiple meanings?
7. Did I use any stop words or clutter words?
8. Did I spell the words correctly?
9. Did I put the most important words first?
Build an optimal query using this list. Write your query on your index card.
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Earthquake Toy Challenge
What toy models a construction principle that reduces damage from earthquakes?
Keyword Challenge Game
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Earthquake Toy Challenge
What toy models a construction principle that reduces damage from earthquakes?
Search for the name of the toy online.
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Earthquake Toy Challenge
What toy models a construction principle that reduces damage from earthquakes?
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Choosing a database
This failure occurs before submitting the first query.
Task: Predict where expert information may be found.
No search engine performs a live Internet search when you submit a query. (Otherwise, how could they come back with a page that’s not found?) That which is stored in one search engine’s database is invisible to another search engine (also called the Deep Web or Enterprise Data)
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Deep Web, Invisible Web
Information that is stored in a
different
database than where you are searching now.
Information that is “buried” deeper in the abstracts than results from another database.
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Evidence of Database Searching
Retrieval Speed e.g., Results
1
-
10
of about
111,000,000
(
0.11
seconds) HTTP Error 404
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Database Searching
Information available (Google): One or more matching words in the
Characters in the URL One or more matching words in the description or body (except stop words) Pages that link to this page</p>
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<h3>Choosing an alternate database</h3>
<p><b>1. What person would know the answer I am looking for?</b></p>
<p><b>2. Where would I find that expert?</b></p>
<p><b>3. Use Google/Yahoo to get there and then use the proprietary search engine to go farther.</b></p>
<p><b>4. To find a relevant database use keywords like DATABASE, ARCHIVE, INFORMATION, ALMANAC, REPOSITORY in combination with subject matter keywords.</b></p>
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<h3>John Williams Challenge</h3>
<p><b>Classical guitarist John Williams has composed all the music for only one motion picture. What is the name of the movie?</b></p>
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<h3>John Williams Challenge</h3>
<p><b>how do I locate that person or organization?</b></p>
<p><b>Classical guitarist John Williams has composed all the music for only one motion picture. What is the name of the movie?</b></p>
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<h3>John Williams Challenge</h3>
<p><b>Who would know the answer and how do I locate that person or organization?</b></p>
<p><b>movie soundtrack database</b></p>
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<h3>Air Race Challenge</h3>
<p><b>What airplane finished the Sport Qualifying race in second place at the Reno Air Races, September 11, 2002?</b></p>
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<h3>Magic Squares Challenge Page Not Found</h3>
<p>Google cache truncation Database search</p>
<p><b>http://www.pse.che.tohoku.ac.jp/~msuzuki/MagicSquare.html</b></p>
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<h3>Sorting Hat Test Challenge Copyright Owner Not Found</h3>
<p>Search the page Search the site Search a different Database</p>
<p><b>Who is collecting the data from this online test for research?</b></p>
<p><b>www.personalitylab.org/tests/ccq_hogwarts.htm</b></p>
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<h3>Homing in on information</h3>
<p> This failure starts when a student looks at the results returned by a search engine and doesn’t recognize relevance.</p>
<p> Task: Match findings with expectations, evaluate relevance Task: Select and try increasingly specific keywords Frequently, effective keywords go unnoticed in snippets.</p>
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<h3>Homing in on information</h3>
<p><b>Resource Kit Resources To improve scanning:</b></p>
<p>•</p>
<p><b>Gold Rush To find clues in snippets: </b></p>
<p>• • • •</p>
<p><b>Snippet Sleuth Snowsport Challenges Soccer Challenges Viking Challenge</b></p>
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<h3>Viking Challenge</h3>
<p><b>What type of coins were highly treasured by Vikings?</b></p>
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<h3>Using Operators Effectively</h3>
<p> This failure occurs while building a query.</p>
<p> Task: Increase the effectiveness of keywords with Boolean and special operators Students generally do not use operators, but when they do, they tend to use them inappropriately. </p>
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<h3>Using Operators Effectively</h3>
<p><b>Resource Kit Resources To improve use of operators:</b></p>
<p>• •</p>
<p><b>QuickPick: Operator Smarts MM Companion: Operators</b></p>
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<p><b>Operators Assessment</b></p>
<p><i>Try your operator skills with the Piranhas Challenge</i></p>
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<h3>Using Operators Effectively</h3>
<p><b>Practice with keywords and operators: What query would you use to find information about an artist by the name of Paul Saint?</b></p>
<p><i>On your index card: Build a query for this search using keywords and operators. </i></p>
<p>not </p>
<p><i>that</i></p>
<p>St. Paul</p>
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<h3>Evaluating credibility</h3>
<p> This failure occurs after information has been located.</p>
<p> Task: Check the credibility of the information and its source Typically, students forego this decision altogether and uncritically accept whatever information they found. Depending on which database the information was taken from, information may be unedited, unendorsed and inaccurate.</p>
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<h3>Evaluating credibility</h3>
<p>• $3.95 – anyone can be a .org</p>
<p>• Free/anonymous hosting sites http://www.angelfire.com/me3/bsbsyncfiction/ http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/9570/bach/ • The Tilde ~ in .edu</p>
<p>Means un-edited, un-endorsed http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~dbrooks/ Resource: http://www.whois.net</p>
<p>Investigate site ownership</p>
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<h3>Sifting information to verify credibility</h3>
<p>Should I keep searching? (Revision Decision) Evaluate the Source Author Publisher Bias Links From Evaluate the Content Evidence Accuracy Date Links To Asking the right questions, knowing where to look for answers 21CIF Evaluation Wizard</p>
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<h3>Golf Cross Challenge</h3>
<p><b>What compelling evidence can you find to determine if this is a real sport or a hoax?</b></p>
<p><b>www.golfcross.com</b></p>
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<h3>Ethical Use</h3>
<p><b>Copyright Plagiarism: MM Companion Fair Use: Scenarios Citation Secondary searching: Citation Assessment</b></p>
<p><i>Find the publisher in the Fish Ladder Challenge </i></p>
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<h3>More Ethical Use</h3>
<p>Tutorial MicroModules on plagiarism and copyright Copyright Webliography CreativeCommons.org</p>
<p>Copyscape.com</p>
<p>Web-based </p>
<p><b>citation</b></p>
<p>tools: Citation Wizard (websites only) http://21cif.imsa.edu/tools/citation/ Citation Machine (websites and print materials) http://citationmachine.net</p>
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<h3>Explore</h3>
<p><b>Check out a topic of interest: Question to Query Deep Web Searching Recognizing Relevance Finding Better Keywords Using Operators Effectively Evaluating Credibility Maximizing Resources Ethical Use</b></p>
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<h3>Questions? Comments?</h3>
<p>What practical strategy or information did you learn today that you will share with others?</p>
<p>Please leave your index card</p>
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