InformationFluency

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Pathfinders as research guides
= = [|Joyce's VOYA Article on Pathfinder Options] [|LiveBinders] (Classroom 2.0) [|Unquiet Library LibGuides] Pathfinder Swap

Tools for Writers
[|Thesis Tools] [|Thesis Creator] [|Thesis Generator] (Jim Burke) STHS Thesis Generator [|Thesis Builders] (Ozline) History Question Generator Question Brainstormer [|Paper Rater] ==

Search Tools!
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 * [|Google News Timeline]
 * [|Google News]
 * [|Google Squared] (for building comparisons)
 * [|Google Books]
 * [|Google Alerts]
 * [|Google Custom Search]
 * Google Wonder Wheel (graphical way of exploring related searches)
 * Google Time Line (creates a bar graph of a decade or year, or by year with sites below)

Mobile Reference - finding information=== Students and staff have wonderful opportunities to use a variety of tools to find, evaluate, synthesize and use information. SMART phones offer new opportunities to gather inforamtion: Buffy Hamilton's GALE App promotion: media type="youtube" key="R78JSACIT9k" height="295" width="480"
 * [|GALE- Access my Library]
 * [|EBSCOHost Mobile] (coming soon)

Realtime search
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Brainstorming, collaborative note-taking, organizing, and rating ideas== SitComAnalysis

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Cooperative Library Instruction Project resources (video tutorials aimed at the university relating to topic development, searching, databases, evaluating, documentation, more!) =media type="custom" key="6373033"= media type="youtube" key="_Ah7ZWYjxdM" height="295" width="480" [|Google Search Options] media type="youtube" key="MtirDMfcOKE" height="295" width="480" media type="custom" key="4640834" [|Get Going with Google Apps in Your School]- from the [|The Innovative Educator]
 * Need More Help? Check out the [|Google Channel on YouTube] for tutorial videos

__Embedding Information: Widgets__
Joyce's Widget Page [|Gale AccessMyLibrary App] (joyce)

What is a Widget?
A widget is anything that can be embedded within a page of [|HTML], i.e. a web page. A widget adds some content to that page that is not static. Generally widgets are originated by third parties, though they can be home made. Embeddable chunks of code have existed since the early development of the World Wide Web. Web developers have long sought and used third party code chunks in their pages. Early web widgets provided functions such as link counters and advertising banners. Now you can make them work for you! - [|Wikipedia]

Adding Widgets
== Adding Video & Widgets to a Wikispaces page is really easy Check out the Comic Life graphic & this [|wikipage] for directions. - = = [|How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website]

Widgets are mini-applications that may be embedded in websites, blogs, wikis, Nings, etc. They are often dynamic and interactive. You may use widgets to subscribe to RSS feeds and other push content. Note: Most of the Digital Storytelling Tools and online Video portals provide embed code.

Database Widgets

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 * [|EBSCO Searchbox Builder]
 * [|Gale Widgets]
 * [|Gale Publication Search Widget]
 * [|Facts on File Widgets]
 * [|Alternate Facts on File Widgets (works better on wikis and blogs)>]
 * [|ProQuest Search Widget Creator]
 * [|ProQuest K12 Widgets]
 * SIRS, Login and go to Educator's Resources to generate a custom SIRS Search Widget. (SIRS Leading Issues Widget
 * [|JSTOR Search]

Book Widgets

 * [|Shelfari] (social networking too)
 * [|LibraryThing] (big book network)
 * [|GoodReads]
 * [|GuruLib]
 * [|Random House Book Widgets]
 * [|BookBox] (embeddable bookshelves)
 * [|KidderLit] (twitter chat about children's lit & widgets)
 * [|HarperCollins BrowseInside]
 * [|Embeddable Google Books]
 * [|Google Book Search Widget]
 * [|JacketFlap]
 * [|JacketFlap: Children's Book Choice Award Widget]
 * [|International Children's Digital Library Book of the Day Gadget]
 * [|BookLoverQuotes]
 * [|New York Times Book Review Widget]
 * [|Scholastic Teacher Book Widget]

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News Widgets

 * [|USA Today Widgets]
 * [|New York Times Widget Builder]
 * [|Washington Post Widgets]
 * [|Washington Post Time Space Widgets]
 * [|Reuters' Widgets]
 * [|CBS News Widgets]
 * [|Time Magazine]
 * [|Twitter Badges]
 * [|Feedzilla News Widgets]

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Questions== [|Asking Good Questions] [|Google Forms] [|Polling & Survey Tools]