Investigative Searching and Citation
April 14 through April 20
May 19 through 23
Introduce your students to the exciting and critically important world of online investigation. Before any digital work can be cited, important information must be found and weighed. Tracking down evidence about the author, publisher, date and other evidence can result in important discoveries about credibility and determine whether an information source should be used at all. Two identical sections are available.
Details:
- Instructors: Carl Heine and Dennis O'Connor
- Time commitment: 5 hours during one week
- 5 CPDUs are available for the 5 online contact hours
- Course delivery: 21CIF Moodle
- Assignments include readings, interactive tutorials, learning games, discussion forums and quizzes.
- ISTE NETS (for teachers) addressed: I, II, III, IV, V, VI
- ISTE NETS (for students) addressed: 2, 3, 5
- ISTE NETS (Refreshed for students 2007) 1,3,4,5
- no course fee -- sponsored by TIPP
Registration Deadlines: April 14 and May 19, 2008
Objectives: Participants will...
- Become familiar with effective instructional models and resources for teaching investigative searching and citation at the middle school level;
- Become proficient in finding authors of online information and investigating authors to determine their potential credibility;
- Become proficient in identifying publishers of online information and investigating their reputations in order to determine credibility;
- Become proficient in finding the date when online information was published and use this to determine relevance;
- Use online citation tools to format citations efficiently.
Registration Deadlines April 14 and May 19, 2008: Please alert us to any special accommodations you may need.
Course Requirements: Successful completion of the course depends on participating in online (asynchronous) discussions, reading assigned articles, using interactive tutorials and games and taking course quizzes. All work needs to be completed by the last day of the course for CPDU's to be awarded. This course is designed to be completed in 5 hours at the computer. The course will remain open for several weeks following the last official day of class to allow access to activities and discussion forums.
Technical Requirements: PC or Mac with high-speed access to the Internet is best. If you are working from school, be advised that some links may be blocked by school filters--especially in the case of Website Investigation activities. Courses may contain Flash video and movies--downloading the most current versions of the free Flash Player and your Browser (Firefox is preferred) is recommended.
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