21st research tools
DESCRIPTION
Various Ways to SearchTRANSCRIPT
Karen Brooks, Darlene Westinghouse, Andre
WOLFRAM ALPHAWebsite - http://www.wolframalpha.comTutorial Overview - http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
Study Guides and StrategiesWebsite - http://www.studygs.net/
Scheduling and Setting Goals - http://www.studygs.net/schedule/
Creating a To Do List - http://www.studygs.net/todolist.htm
Prioritizing Tasks - http://www.studygs.net/stressb.htm
Reading Critically - http://www.studygs.net/crtread.htm
Fiction – Narrator and Character Type - http://www.studygs.net/fictiona.htm
Checking my Study Skills - http://www.studygs.net/attmot4.htm
Citation Generator –http://www.studygs.net/citation/mla.htm
Chapter Reviews and No Fear ShakespeareWebsite - http://www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/ and http://nfs.sparknotes.com/
Literature Reviews for the iPhone™ & iPod Touch® to help you studyMain Website - http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/
Mobile - http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/Section/CliffsNotes-Mobile.id-397375.html
CramCast - http://tips.cliffsnotes.com/rss/cliffsnotescramcast.xml
Flashcardshttp://quizlet.com/ and http://www.flashcardexchange.com/
ChaCha and KGBChaCha - http://www.chacha.com/ KGB - http://kgb.com/
ITUNES
Zoterohttp://www.zotero.org/
MIT
As part of its mission to “advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has decided to put all their courses online for free. They call it Open Course Ware or OCW and the stated goals of the program are:
MIT OCW's goals are to: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
http://dogpile.com
http://clusty.com
http://www.trovando.it/default.asp
http://www.gigablast.com
Visual Search – Kartoo.com
The Deep Web Web sites or
information that Google or other popular search engines are not capable of indexing
Websites specifically excluded by the search engine
How Big is the Deep Web
An Internet search typically searches .03% (1/3000) of available content.
95% of Deep Web is accessible to public (no fees or subscription required)
550 billion documents 500 times the content of the surface
Web Google has identified 1.2 billion
documents
NOVELNY Databases
http://www.ouboces.orghttp://pages.mhlearningnetwork.com/dboyea/id5.html
Digital Librarian
CompletePlanet
INFOMINE