edna.edu.au

Exploration

Stage 3 of the Information Search Process is Exploration.

This is where time is spent in gathering more information about the topic to further build background knowledge. This involves catalogue searching and use of search engines.

Finding an easy way to bookmark and tag interesting and relevant resources is helpful. Investigate social bookmarking services such as delicious, diigo or twine and how they can be used. For this workshop we will use social bookmarking in me.edu.au. 

Tags
Tags should be single words or very short phrases.
Check whether spaces are permitted in your social bookmarking service. If not, use under_scores to connect words, or WikiCase.

me.edu.au social bookmarking
Log in to your me.edu.au profile and keep it open in a separate window or tab as you search. When you find a relevant resource, copy the url and paste it into your share links box. Add tags and a title/description about why you chose it.

me.edu.au uses commas to separate tags so spaces are OK, but still not ideal as spaces can break urls.

Tags: guided inquiry information literacy tagging iphsaa tl libraries social bookmarking
Posted at 11:31PM Jun 18, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]