1. Online Resources for Sport, Health and Exercise
Liz Wraith

2. ONLINE RESOURCES How to use 1 Blackboard 2 Databases
3 Recommended websites
4 Web Resources

3. BLACKBOARD City College Norwich “Virtual Learning Environment”
Specific Course Information
College Services

4. DATABASES Infotrac Cochrane Library (Medical research)
A database is an organised collection of information records that can be accessed electronically, full-text & abstracting
BLACKBOARD/LEARNING ZONE/ONLINE DATABASES & E-JOURNALS
Infotrac
Cochrane Library (Medical research)
Health Point (D.o.H)
BlackwellSynergy (Abstracts)
Ingenta (Abstracts)
Human Anatomy and Physiology (Online textbook)
Anatomy and Physiology CD-Rom

5. RECOMMENDED WEBSITES
These are accessed via –
Blackboard/learning zone/top sites for your course

6. To Google, or not to Google
Scholar Google – What is Scholar Google?
“Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.” Google, 2006

7. USING THE INTERNET Identify the website .org .com .gov .ac
Locate the home page
check the ending of the URL
.org
.com
.gov
.ac

8. Examine the credibility
USING THE INTERNET
Examine the credibility
Who’s the author?
How detailed is the information?
Can the information be double checked?
How up-to-date is the information?

9. Learning Resources Adviser EXT 3048 lwraith@ccn.ac.uk
NEED HELP?
LIZ WRAITH
Learning Resources Adviser
EXT 3048