Investigating+and+Collaborating

= How are We Going to get There? (Investigate and Collaborate) =

Harvey and Daniels (2009) refer to this stage as "Investigate". It is a stage characterized as the development of essential critical questions, the intensive and refined search for information, and the efficient discovery of relevant information. To promote students as effective investigators and collaborators of knowledge-building, they need a repetoire of strategies and tools in order to participate in a global environment. Teacher-librarians need to move the students beyond the one-trick, single-search mode. Once students have developed thoughtful, essential questions, they need to have strategies for investigating their inquiry. Searching and searchers have become more interactive than before.

Finding Information
> Gale > [|Gale Widgets] - embed in your school library Web page > [|example using socio-economic data] > [|Sweet Search for teacher-librarians]
 * 1) Using the social media tools in the online databases
 * 1) [|Wolfram Alpha for Educators>][|using WA in math]
 * 1) Search engines[|> Sweet Search] -
 * 1) [|GoogleForms] - my favourite - so easy to create surveys
 * 2) Search in Twitter/Delicious/Diigo
 * 3) InstaPaper -Collect Web pages to bookmark or readlater.. When you find something you want to read, but you don't have time, click Read Later
 * 4) Readability - A simple tool that makes reading on the Web easier and less distracting by removing the clutter around the text.
 * 5) YouTube

Mindmapping Tools
Concept maps are useful tools for helping students organize information about important topics by showing relationships between concepts and standards.


 * [|bubbl.us]
 * [|Webspiration]
 * [|Mindmapping article] explains how tools like bubbl.us, and EyePlore can be used as graphic organizers.
 * [|Example] - using bubbl.us to help students organize ideas while note-taking.

Graphing Tools

 * [|Pretty Graph]
 * [|Crappy Graph]
 * [|Create a Graph]


 * [|Diigo]
 * [|First Thoughts on Using Diigo in Class...]
 * [|Awesome highlighter]

Screen Capture Tools

 * [|Jing] (requires download)
 * [|How to Use Jing in Your Classroom]
 * [|Screencast-o-matic] - no download required
 * [|ScreenToaster]- the demo
 * [|SmartRecorder]- use your Smartboard
 * [|Wordle]
 * //T//[|op 20 Uses for Wordle]
 * [|Piclits]
 * TubeChop - Allows learners to easily chop an //interesting section// from any YouTube video and share it.

**Document The Process**

 * googledocs
 * blog
 * wiki

Backchannelling

 * Chatzy
 * Twitter
 * [|Edmodo]
 * Edmodo Page (example)
 * [|TodaysMeet]



**Collaborate**
> [|Daniel Pink Ustream and CoverItLive Archive][|> Alternatives to Ning]- this video shows the rapid collaborative editing of a document about alternatives to Ning.
 * 1) Wikis - Iditarod Collaborative Project
 * 2) Blogs
 * 3) Googledocs
 * 4) Etherpad - Allows realtine collaborative text - multiple people can edit the same document simultaneously
 * 5) Nings (alternatives)
 * 6) Voicethread
 * 7) Examples:[|> CoverItLive]
 * 1) Crogan's Adventures

**Acknowledge Sources**
Teacher-librarians must be able to guide their learners in digital citizenship and the creative use of intellectual property. Whether it is communicating the results of the inquiry or research or composing and sharing a digital story, teacher-librarians now guide learners as they create and share media products in a mashup, remix world.. > An in comic form > [|Animal Photos] - Images on this site are under creative commons and are free to use on web sites and other projects > [|25 Sources for Creative Commons Content] > Donna's delicious links tagged [|Creative Commons] > Bibme
 * 1) Creative Commons
 * 1) Citation Generators
 * 1) [|PaperRater] - Grammar checker, proofreader and plagiarism detector