Companion Website to
Write It!
A Guide for Research, Third Edition
by Elizabeth Bankhead, Janet Nichols, and Dawn Vaughn
Teacher's Guide for Write It!
Contents
Using Write It! A Guide for Research
- How Write It! Can Improve Student Research Projects
- Why Teachers and Librarians Design More Effective Student
Research Projects by Planning Together
- Internet Sites for Teachers and Librarians to Use in Planning
- Internet Sites for Students
- Internet Sites for Librarians
"Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get."
William Feather Author/Publisher
1889 - 1981
"School improvement is most surely and thoroughly achieved when teachers engage in frequent, continuous and increasingly concrete talk about teaching practices"
Judith Warren Little U of Cal Berkeley
""In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
Eric Hoffer, Author
1902 - 1983
How Write It! Can Improve Student Research Projects
Why Teachers and Librarians Design More Effective Student Research Projects by Planning Together
Internet Sites for Teachers and Librarians to Use in Planning
Benefits of Collaborative Planning
- Advantages of Power Libraries
http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib/powerlib/goals.htm#advantages - Components of Successful Collaboration http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib/powerlib/goals.htm#collaboration
- Designing Research Projects Students and Teachers Love
http://www.doug-johnson.com/articles/ - How School Librarians Help Kids Achieve Standards http://www.lrs.org/impact.php
Teacher / Librarian Planning
- Alternatives to Reports and Papers [PDF]
- Education World
http://www.education-world.com/ - eduScapes: A Site for Life Long Learners
http://eduscapes.com/ -
Kathy Shrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/ - Graphic Organizers
http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html -
Librarian's Internet Index
http://www.lii.org/ - Rubric generator
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php - Webography of Web Page Evaluation Sources http://www2.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm
- Wired Learning AT&T Knowledge Network http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/wired.html
Lesson Plans
- Gateway to 21st Century Skills
http://www.thegateway.org/ - Lesson Resources for Teachers on Wikispaces http://linksforteachers.wikispaces.com/
- NHD: National History Day http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/
- Read Write Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp -
Service Learning
http://www.service-learningpartnership.org/site/PageServer - Students in Service to America http://www.studentsinservicetoamerica.org/guidebook/classroom.html
- Web Quest searcher from San Diego State
University
http://webquest.org/search/
Standards and Assessment
- 21st Century Skills
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/ - AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/learningstandards/standards.cfm - ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm
- National Educational Technology Standards
http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS - Big 6 Research Process
http://www.big6.com/ - Looking at Student Work http://www.lasw.org/
- National Educational Technology Standards http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS
- TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills http://trails-9.org/
Preventing Plagiarism
- Johnson, D. (2004) Keeping Kids Engaged Fights Plagiarism, Too, Education Digest, May 2004. Phi Delta Kappan March 2004, http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ740567&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ740567
- Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/TM/curr390_guide.shtml
- Plagiarism Proofing Assignments
http://www.doug-johnson.com/articles/ - Put an End to Plagiarism in Your Classroom
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr390.shtml
Internet Sites for Students
- OSLIS MLA Citation Maker http://www.oslis.org/resources/cm/mlacitationss
- OSLIS APA Citation Maker
http://www.oslis.org/resources/cm/apacitations - OPEN Citation Maker (MLA)
http://www.openc.k12.or.us/citeintro/citeintro.php?Grd=Sec - Duke University Libraries Research Guide
http://library.duke.edu/services/instruction/libraryguide/ - Easy Bib (MLA, APA)
http://www.easybib.com/ - Electronic Search Strategies from Eugene Oregon SD
http://www.openc.k12.or.us/citeintro/secondary/strategies/strat03.html - Five Steps to Better Research (online tutorial)
http://lib.colostate.edu/tutorials/research.html - Interactive Online Tutorial of Research Assignment
http://library.nyu.edu:8000/research/tutorials/boolean/tutorial.html - Landmark's Son of Citation Maker (APA, MLA)
http://citationmachine.net/
Internet Sites for Librarians
- Digitales http://www.digitales.us/index.php Education World Newsletters http://www.educationworld.com/maillist.shtml
- From Now On Online Journal
http://fno.org/ - Pod Casting in Plain English
http://www.commoncraft.com/podcasting - ALA Editions
http://www.alastore.ala.org/
Children's, Young Adult, and Youth Services
Note in particular these two titles:
Power Tools Recharged
Power Research Tools - Why Let Our Students Blog?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/videooftheweek.shtml