3.+Getting+Started+and+Resources


 * The Research Process**

**Researching a topic can be difficult. How do you know if the information is relaiable and what is the best way to locate information using the Internet? Use the following activities to look at reliability of websites and to improve your google skills.**

__RELIABILITY & GOOGLE__
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 * Quick Quiz: http://www.agoogleaday.composes a daily question. Once you hit the start button you are timed and must use the search engine to find the correct answer to a question. There is no correct way of searching only the correct answer! Once youare done, you can share how you conducted your searches to share best practice in effeciency.
 * ACTIVITY: @http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/
 * Google Search Tips and other resources

==Visit the collaborative Google Doc to see other Web 2.0 tools that primary teachers may be using and read about the terms and conditions to check if the site is age appropriate. []==

(Same as wordle but you can choos the SHAPE of your words) ||
 * =** Web 2.0 Tools **= || =** Description **= ||
 * [|Bubble Us] || A great tool when creating a mind map ||
 * [] || Create Sparkle text - remember to delete the last line from the embedd cose so that the advertisement does not show up ||
 * [|www.wigflip.com/signbot] || Write some text and click **Generate Sign** to make your own animated scrolling text LED sign. ||
 * @http://www.wordle.net/ || Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. ||
 * [|www.tagxedo.com] || turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
 * [|www.voki.com/Voki_for_education.php] || Create and customize a speaking character ||
 * [] || Poster yourself - Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends. Mix Images, Text, Music and Video. It is fantastic! ||
 * @http://wigflip.com/superstickies/ || Write a note and click "Create »" to make your own sticky note picture. ||
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 * http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ ||  ||
 * www.wallwisher.com || An online NOTICEBOARD maker ||
 * edu.glogster.com/ || Poster yourself - Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends. Mix Images, Text, Music and Video. It is fantastic! ||
 * @http://tinyurl.com/ || Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? By entering in a URL in the text field, we will create a tiny URL that //**will not break in email postings**// and //**never expires**//. ||
 * docs.google.com/ || Create and share your work online and access your //documents// from anywhere. Manage //documents//, spreadsheets, presentations, surveys, and more all in one easy ||
 * @http://www.tubechop.com/ || Clip only PART of a Youtube clip and then embedd it ||