This article covers three web 2.0 tools that can assist in the creation of research papers.
They are bubble.us, Google docs and Easybib. Check this site to ease the burden of writing research papers for you and for your students!
This online journal could be used when students are asked to write "self reflection" papers. They can go back and access any time to recall an experience in a specific course.
Venn Diagram - The Venn Diagram
app allows users to compare and contrast information in a visually appealing
way. Sounds like a 21st Century Skill useful from fine arts to applied science.
Doodle Splash - Doodle Splash
combines the process of drawing with analytical thinking by pairing online
drawing with writing prompts that encourage students to make connections between
their visual designs and the text. What a wonderful way for students to explore
concepts in all subject areas.
Flip Book - The Flip Book is
designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages
long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while
reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer
booklets. This applies across the curriculum.
ReadWriteThink Notetaker - Useful
for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows
students to organize up to five levels of information. After all… almost every
class involves some note taking.
Welcome to a post that examines an amazing free collections of educational digital interactive programs and apps. You are sure to find something that will fit your classroom in the very near future...
A "well-built" question should include four parts, referred to as PICO
that identify the patient problem or population (P),
intervention (I), comparison (C) and
outcome(s) (O). 1
Primary Problem
Patient's main concern
or chief complaint
Disease or health status
Age, Race, Sex, Previous
ailments, current medications
Excellent resource for students learning to write a PICO question. Thought this could come up in online research-related courses. The example is directly related to the dental population, but easy to follow.
Questions often spring to mind in a form that makes finding answers in the
medical literature a challenge. Dissecting
the question into its component parts and restructuring it so that it is easy to
find the answers is an essential first step
in Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). Many
questions can be divided into 4 parts:
Details from website.
Docear is a unique solution to academic literature management and possesses three features that you will not find anywhere else, namely
a) A unique approach for organizing literature, focusing on your annotations instead of documents
b) A unique approach for drafting and writing your assignments, papers, books, thesis, etc.
c) A research paper recommender systems that recommends papers that are entirely free, instantly to download, and tailored to your information needs
Due to these three unique features, Docear will fundamentally change your way of organizing, creating, and discovering academic literature.
Digital storytelling, the practice of combining narrative with digital content, is gaining more ground in the educational field. Over 20 different websites listed to use as tools.