Technology of Teaching (EDU 604):
Researching on the Web
NOTE: Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
is the source for most of the links on this page. This is a comprehensive tutorial based on the Internet workshops offered by the Teaching Library at the University of California at Berkeley. They update their content regularly to reflect the latest trends in search engines, directories, and evaluating web pages. This is a great resource to keep you current and informed about conducting research on the web.
Topics:
Search engines and searching strategies
Web directories
The invisible web (including GALILEO and research databases)
Critically evaluating your findings
Search Engines and Searching Strategies
- Search Engines (table of features, how they work)
- Googling to the Max
- Googling to the Max - Exercises
- Recommended Search Engines and Directories (UC Berkeley Library's "Find Websites" page)
- Recommended Search Strategy
Web Directories
- Web Directories (table of features)
- Beyond Google (examples and exercises for other good search engines, directories)
- Recommended Search Engines and Directories (UC Berkeley Library's "Find Websites" page)
- Directories or Directory Subsets Related to K-12 Education:
- GALILEO has a K-12 section. You can see the link near the top right of the homepage.
- LII.org - K-12 Education
- Google Directory - Kids and Teens - School Time
- Google Directory - Reference - Education - K-12
- Yahoo Directory - Education - K-12
- Internet Public Library - K-12 Education
- Internet Public Library - KidSpace
- KidsClick! (Web search for kids by librarians)
The Invisible Web
- The Invisible Web (what it is, how to find it)
- Beyond General Web Searching
- Library of Congress: American Memory
GALILEO 
Resources
- ERIC (at EBSCOhost) Educational Resources Information Center. Covers all aspects of education and educational research, includes both abstracts of published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics. Includes the searchable Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors. The database will link you to articles that are available fulltext in any of our other EBSCOhost databases and to ERIC documents which are available online in fulltext on the government ERIC site: http://www.eric.ed.gov/.
- Wilson Education Full Text Abstracts and select fulltext articles on contemporary education issues.
- SKS WebSelect Directory of web resources on most subjects, plus topics and featured Web sites of special interest.
- Full list of GALILEO Education Resources. You may also find educational information in the General and Multi-Subject databases, such as Academic Search Complete and Research Library.
I have the citation. How do I find the journal article?
- Look for the journal title in the Journal Locator - an alphabetical list of our electronic and print journal holdings.
- If your journal is listed, check that the issue you need is available. Journals that are available electronically have the dates of coverage listed next to the database link(s). For journals available in print or on microfilm, you will see a link to the library catalog labeled "Philip Weltner Library Print/Microfilm Holdings." This will tell you what issues we have in the library.
Creating Links to Articles in ERIC and Other EBSCOhost Databases
You can create links to articles, records, and searches in EBSCOHost databases by using the "Persistent Link" feature.
- Connect to GALILEO from the library website, and enter an EBSCOhost database.
- Enter your search. Near the top of the results screen under the green menu bar, you will see a link that says "Display link to this search." Click on this link to produce a link you can copy and use to recreate your search at another time.
- If there is an article for which you want to create a link, click on the title to display the record.
- Near the bottom of the record you will see a section labeled "Persistent link to this record." Copy this to create a link to the article in your document.
- Note: Users must be on campus or authenticated in GALILEO for these links to work.
Critically Evaluating Your Findings
- Evaluating Web Pages
- Evaluating Information on the Web (from Philip Weltner Library)
- Recommended Reading:
The article Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation was published in Searcher Magazine in September of 2000. Many of the specific examples included are dated or no longer exist; however, the concepts discussed in the article are still useful. - Web Evaluation Worksheet
- Evaluation practice exercises:
- Compare these sites: www.thekingcenter.org and martinlutherking.org
- Evaluate a result from one of the the following Google searches:
"global warming" science site:org
"stem cells" abortion