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Metacognition, n. Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes, esp. regarded as having a role in directing those processes. - Oxford English Dictionary

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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: Examples Social Medical Legal Employment Personal Concern

I-Search: Medical

I-Search: Medical: cleidocranial dysplasia Medical Databases Orthopedic Dissertations Surgical Textbooks

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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 Bubbl.us Mappio - Web-based mind mapping from structured text Mappio Mindomo - Web-based mind mapping Mindomo

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Selecting a topic - browsing resources World Wide Web ( NoodleTools)NoodleTools Library Databases Library Catalog (Books) Reference Collection WorldCat

Evaluating Websites Authority Accuracy Objectivity Currency

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 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: TechnoratiTechnorati

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.here

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 Blogging: Personal participation in public knowledge-building on the web  Did you know the library has a blog?blog Technorati : Tracking the Live Web Technorati

Blogs - Services Blogger WordPress Movable Type TypePad

I-Search Using information - taking notes, analyzing materials, recording the process Developing a final product - developing communications, sharing experiences

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Serendipity The faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident. Also, the fact or an instance of such a discovery. - Oxford English Dictionary

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