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"Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers (and people in general) communicate and collaborate. Researchers have a huge amount to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work."

Excellent post on research process.

Excellent post on improving the research process.

Great interactive visual for doing research.

Great visual on research, appropriate for younger grades (probably best for 3-8 but could be used in HS). Though it is geared towards younger students it would be a great way to introduce research to freshmen or struggling students.

This guide answers these questions, showing you how to get started on Twitter and showing you how Twitter can be used as a resource for research, teaching and impact activities. From the London School of Economics

A research level guide to using twitter as an academic research tool

Different models of research including Guided Inquiry by Carol Kuhlthau and Ross Todd from Rutgers. Lots of options with links to all of them.

many different frameworks for research. What framework for research do we follow? Do we have one? This might be a good discussion point.

Using facebook as a research log! Great ideas here for research!

Research guide from Finding Dulcinea

Great step by step guide to research from the Finding Dulcinea (Sweet Search) staff

Good ideas for using the NY Times for research

"This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for."

Great list of resources

Site has information on and links to many different research models.

What research framework is used at MHS? Or in the MSD? Do we have one?

Save, organize, and share your research

Great article on student research

Very good post on searching from the UK

good overview of the search process that goes way beyond searching on google.

This looks very interesting.

Should check this new search engine out. We will add this to our DICSOVER Search page

"ACRL Information Literacy Coordinating Committee gateway to resources on information literacy. These resources will help you understand and apply the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education to enhance teaching, learning, and research in the higher education community."

good to know what is expected of students at the college level

Great list of apps to use in lesson planning and research.

apps are organized visually into categories like: curriculum review, research, contribute etc.

post using ipad to gather information.

some good and useful info here.

"A research project focusing on reading behavior going on at Johannes Gutenberg University (go figure) asks the question of whether or not we actually read in a completely different way using our ereaders, and if the effects are undesirable. Has technology developed its own significant physical procession of human motor movements for consuming info and entertainment on today's digital media? Sure it has, and according to this study at least, it's harmless-just different. posted by Ian Jukes Nov 10, 2011"

"an oral history website produced by SUNY Albany for the purpose of sharing history lessons and audio artifacts. Every week Talking History publishes two audio segments about various historical topics. One of the segments features historians talking about an event or theme in history. The other segment features an audio artifact about an event or theme."

site aims to "expand our understanding of history by exploring the audio dimensions of our past, and we hope to enlarge the tools and venues of historical research and publication by promoting production of radio documentaries and other forms of aural history."

"Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere."