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New Media, New Research: Using the internet in research for the A level Extended Project

Terese BirdLearning Technologist and SCORE Research FellowFor Queen Elizabeth I College EPQ seminar 18 Oct 2012

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What will we talk about?

• Google is not enough

• What’s ‘good’?

• Excellent online ‘libraries’

• How to reference YouTube, iTunes U, Flickr

• Online surveys and interviews

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The truth about Google

• Google is a business, not a service

• When you Google something, the results are different from when your friend Googles it

• Examine the website carefully

Websites can have excellent information

• Consider the motive of the writer

• Advert?

• Look at the small print

What’s ‘good’?

• ‘Peer reviewed‘

• ‘Primary source’

• Examine the motivation for writing

• Examine who paid for it

• Educational authorities

• BBC, Government

Blog post by an expert

New online ‘libraries’: YouTube.eduyoutube.com/education

New online ‘libraries’: iTunes U

New online ‘libraries’: iTunes U

Flickr

Vimeo – vimeo.com

Specialist Websites

www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts

Why does Leicester have a Statue of Liberty on a roundabout?

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It was a building once…

Photo: Myleicestershire.org.uk

Why do the old factories burn?

http://myleicestershire.org.uk

How to reference a YouTube video?

How to reference a blog post

Internet power for surveys

• SurveyMonkey

Internet power for interviews

• Skype

• Google Hangout

• Ask permission to record or quote

Internet Power: Twitter

Internet Power: Twitter

Use the internet wisely

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• There’s also a layout for a title with a light background.

• And a layout for a plain slide and one with just a heading.

• If you need more layouts you can make extra masters. Go to Master slide view and create new ones.

• Marvellous isn’t it?