I-Search Maxson 1213 Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. Instructional Services Librarian SWOSU 774 7113
Dec 30, 2015
Metacognition, n.
Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes, esp. regarded as having a role in directing those processes.
- Oxford English
Dictionary
I-Search
Selecting a topic - exploring interests, discussing ideas, browsing resources
Finding information - generating questions, exploring resources
Using information - taking notes, analyzing materials, recording the process
Developing a final product - developing communications, sharing experiences
I-Search: Medical: cleidocranial dysplasia Medical Databases
Orthopedic Dissertations
Surgical Textbooks
I-Search: Example: Medical
Selecting a topic – Medical Condition (cleidocranial dysplasia)
Finding information – concept mapping, websites & web tools, medical databases (general), medical professionals, networking tools, blogs
Using information - taking notes, analyzing materials, interview people in the field
What I learned – Treatment/Options
Selecting a topic - browsing resources
Keywords
Concept Maps Concept mapping is a brainstorming strategy to
help you generate ideas for your assignment, visually organize information, and make connections between different concepts.
Concept Maps: Critical Questions What is the central word, concept, research
question or problem around which to build the map?
What are the concepts, items, descriptive words or telling questions that you can associate with the concept, topic, research question or problem?
Concept Maps: Suggestions Use a free association approach by
brainstorming nodes and then develop links and relationships. Use different colors and shapes for nodes & links to identify different types of information.
Gather information to a question in the question node.
Mind mapping software (web-based) Bubbl.us - Web-based mind mapping /
concept mapping
Mappio - Web-based mind mapping from structured text
Mindomo - Web-based mind mapping
Selecting a topic - browsing resources World Wide Web ( NoodleTools) Library Databases Library Catalog (Books) Reference Collection WorldCat
Finding information- generating questions, exploring resources Primary & Secondary Sources
Personal Interviews
Professional Associations
Finding information- Primary & Secondary Sources Primary sources are the "materials
on a topic upon which subsequent interpretations or studies are based, anything from firsthand documents such as poems, diaries, court records, and interviews to research results generated by experiments, surveys, ethnographies, and so on."
Primary sources are records of events as they are first described, without any interpretation or commentary. They are also sets of data, such as census statistics, which have been tabulated, but not interpreted.
Secondary sources, on the other hand, offer an analysis or a restatement of primary sources. They often attempt to describe or explain primary sources. Some secondary sources not only analyze primary sources, but use them to argue a contention or to persuade the reader to hold a certain opinion.
Primary Secondary
Original artwork
POW diary
Poem
Treaty
Article critiquing the piece of art
Book about POW Camp
Treatise on a particular genre of poetry
Essay on Native American land rights
Primary & Secondary Sources Primary Sources
Person Interview E-Mail contact Event Discussion Debate Community Meeting Survey Artifact Observation of object
(animate and inanimate)
Secondary Sources
Reference Material Book CD Rom Encyclopedia Magazine Newspaper Video Tape Audio Tape TV
Finding information – Professional Associations
Encyclopedia of Associations
R 060 En195
A comprehensive list of national organizations described briefly, with names, addresses, and telephone numbers. Associations keep track of industry data for their members and may have valuable information on an industry that would not be found in standard business sources. Indexes include name of organization, key word, and geographic area.
Finding information – Personal Interviews
Get information by talking with people who have knowledge you want.
Sometimes you simply want to know what their experience has been.
Sometimes you want their expert opinion, sometimes their knowledge of the facts.
Which of these kinds of information are you after?
Finding information – Personal Interviews When you make an appointment, you need to
introduce yourself and tell what capacity you are calling in, explain the purpose of your call, explain why you would like to talk with the person, and request permission to set a time and place.
Conducting Interviews
Field Research Conducting an Interview
Tools
Research Journal….Keep One Concept Maps Noodle Tools Interviews
RSS Social Networks Blogs: Technorati
RSS Feeds
RSS In Plain English Gather information from across the Web and
bring it to you Library databases are now incorporating RSS
feeds into their products, check here for more information.
Blogs
A place to disseminate information on a particular subject and allows direct feedback from the readers of this content. Blogging: Personal participation in public
knowledge-building on the web Did you know the library has a blog?
Technorati : Tracking the Live Web
I-Search
Using information - taking notes, analyzing materials, recording the process
Developing a final product - developing communications, sharing experiences
Serendipity
The faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident. Also, the fact or an instance of such a discovery.
- Oxford English Dictionary