Hunter College High School Library

Plagiarism

2012-01-17T09:50:00.000-05:00

"When finalizing my thoughts, I, like most every teenager who has use of a computer, cut and pasted my ideas together. I erroneously thought the way I had submitted the articles was appropriate. I now realize that I was mistaken."
Blair Hornstine quoted in the book Other People's Words, p.9)

Plagiarism is "the uncredited use (both intentional and unintentional) of somebody else's words or ideas."

Avoiding Plagiarism

Purdue's Online Writing Lab has created a great webpage on plagiarism, which includes this discussion of when we need to give credit.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/research/r_plagiar.html
Another great resource on the issues surrounding plagiarism here. It also has a very good self-test: http://abacus.bates.edu/cbb/quiz/intro/integrity.html

Are you a plagiarist? Take this self test.

http://ec.hku.hk/plagiarism/self_test.htm
A teacher, David Gardner, at the University of Hong Kong has created this excellent website, which includes a test to evaluate if you know how to avoid plagiarism. [Note: the use of the single quotation mark is British usage; American usage is to use the double quotation mark. Please ask if you've any questions about this.]

NPR story on Plagiarism
"Guest Host Melissa Block talks with Thomas Mallon, author of Stolen Words: Forays into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism, about the discovery of plagiarism by well-known authors such as Steven Ambrose, and research techniques which should help avoid the problem. (4:30)"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1136141

So how do you avoid plagiarism? Two main techniques: Paraphrasing and proper citing.

Let's say you read something. This happens all the time. The writer said everything you would like to say. But you can't just copy it and put it in your paper. Or, the writer says it plus other details and you need only some of it.

Q: Thinking back on what you've done, how do you go about paraphrasing something?

-Write your paraphrase WITHOUT looking at the book. Then check for accuracy and mistakenly borrowed phrases.

-Begin a summary statement with something like, "According to author Jennifer Smith, the industrial revolution…"

-Put any unique phrases or words in quotations.

-Don't quote at length just because you're too lazy to put in your own words (paraphrase) and credit.

What is copyright?
What is Fair Use?
But I'm using it for "educational" purposes. Am I ok?
http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-b.html

Good Science Databases & Resources

2011-12-15T07:53:00.002-05:00

Scientific American 1845 to the Present

Science Direct

General Science Collection

MAS Ultra - School Edition

ChemMatters

Physics Today

Science Fair Resources

2011-11-10T14:07:00.013-05:00

What Makes A Good Science Fair Project
www.usc.edu/CSSF/Resources/Good_Project.html
"A website from USC that gives a lot of good tips and ideas to think about regarding what makes a good science fair project."*

IPL: Science Fair Project Resource Guide
http://www.ipl.org/div/projectguide/
"Are you looking for some help with a science fair project? If so, then you have come to the right place. The IPL will guide you to a variety of web site resources, leading you through the necessary steps to successfully complete a science experiment. If you have never done a science fair project before, it has been a while, or you just want to be sure you do a really great job be sure and look at the following websites for tips on what makes a good project before doing anything else. This way you will know ahead of time what will be expected of you..."

The Archimedes Initiative
http://www.archimedesinitiative.org/themes.html
"Student interviews on an array of insightful projects providing excellent advice from conquering fears to working through unforeseen results." *

Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
A "searchable database of abstracts provides a powerful resource to help with project ideas and as perhaps a first step in a literature search. Abstracts are searchable by key word, discipline, finalist name, fair id, state or country." This site also has "Tips and Advice from alumni."
http://www.societyforscience.org/page.aspx?pid=310

Science Buddies
http://www.sciencebuddies.org. Includes a database of project ideas and an "Advanced Science Project" guide, which provides overview of top high school science fair contests.

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Online databases available through Hunter College High School's Library.
http://www.hchs.hunter.cuny.edu/index.php/library/#databases
These databases, especially Ebscohost's Academic Search Premier and Infotrac's Academic OneFile are great places to look for magazine articles. You should be able to access these databases from home using your hunter email username and password. Let us know if this is not the case.
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Other science fair resources:

Physics4Kids
http://www.physics4kids.com/

MAD Scientist Library
http://www.madsci.org/libs/libs.html
"Welcome to the MadSci Library, an excellent starting point for exploring science resources on the WWW."

The Discover Channel's Science Fair Resouce Page
http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/
"Creative investigations into the real world." This site provides a complete guide to science fair projects. Check out the 'Handbook' which features information from Janice VanCleave, a popular author who provides everything you need to know for success. You can even send her a question about your project. [From IPL.]

SEED: Science Lab
http://www.planetseed.com/science/lab
"The Science Lab offers ...online activities related to geology, physics, and space. Geared for ages 10–18, all of the projects come with a background lesson and most require minimal prep time. Created by: Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development, New York, NY." [quoted from :http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6376091.html]

Ask an expert
http://www.ipl.org/div/projectguide/toolsNresearch.html#askanexpert

[Scroll down to "Ask An Expert"] "Most of your research will probably be done on the internet or at the library, but if you’ve looked everywhere you can find, but still don’t have an answer, then it might be time to call an expert. At these sites, there are expert scientists who can answer your questions.

Before you send a question, be sure to read through each site’s archives, because someone may have already asked your question. Also, you should remember that it will usually take at least a couple days, maybe longer, for you to receive an answer."

Free Citation Tools

2010-12-20T11:36:00.006-05:00

BibMe

"is a free automatic citation creator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting. BibMe leverages external databases to quickly fill citation information for you. BibMe will then format the citation information and compile a bibliography according to the guidelines of the style manuals. If you prefer, you can enter your citation information manually. BibMe also features a citation guide that provides students with the style manuals' guidelines for citing references." http://www.bibme.org/

Noodlebib Express

"Just need one or two quick citations? No need to log in or subscribe -- simply generate them in NoodleBib Express and copy and paste what you need into your document. Note: citations are not saved and cannot be exported to a word processor using this version of the tool." http://www.noodletools.com/tools/freetools.php

Fast links

2009-10-01T12:57:00.001-05:00

http://www.hchs.hunter.cuny.edu/index.php/Gutenberg

Good websites on the ELEMENTS

2009-03-26T07:27:00.004-05:00

There are many interactive periodic tables on the web. Here's are three good ones:

-This one provides images and a basic "history and production" paragraph for each element:
http://www.science-park.info/periodic/

-And this one provides an image, a word-origin, a description of properties, and a list of common usage:
http://chemistry.about.com/library/blperiodictable.htm

-The one tries to be comprehensive and includes some technical data not necessarily provided by the others:
http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/

This is the google directory on the elements. For each element, it provides links to other sites. Each website should have been chosen by a human editor (so isn't just automatically generated as in a normal google search.):
http://www.google.com/Top/Science/Chemistry/Elements/

Similar to the google directory is this directory, created by the "Open Directory Project." Again, for each element, an edited list of links is available:
http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Chemistry/Elements/

Cyberbully survey

2009-01-21T15:05:00.002-05:00

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=QxIh_2fO9TEFKQd98qZOX3NQ_3d_3d

Quality of Life

2008-11-21T08:52:00.001-05:00

CIAO

For quick access to general maps and basic facts, try the CIAO database (Columbia International Affairs Online). On the left you'll see a link to "maps/county data." From here you can find basic statistics like a nation's GDP, its military expenditure, death rate, and population. You can also compare the statistics of up to three countries. (All stats from from the CIA World Factbook.)

http://www.ciaonet.org/

NationMaster

If you really want to study a nation's statistics in depth, head to NationMaster.com. This constantly updated site takes data from various governments and NGO's (e.g. UN, WHO, OECD) and makes them available in comparable bar graphs, pie charts, and maps. Note that this is a private site with advertisements. A wide variety of likely and unlikely stats, like: working time to buy a car, age at first marriage for women, roller coasters per capita.
Source and definitions are available for each data set. From the homepage to get started, choose "Select Category" under Facts and Statistics. Note that you can generally choose to compare a "total" or a "per capita" statistic. You can also see correlations between statistics, (e.g. the inverse relationship between the number of McDonalds restaurants per capita and the number of couples with children) but remember: correlation does not necessarily mean that one trend causes another.

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

Human Development Index.

The U.N. pubishes each year a Human Development Index. Rather than traditional economic figures like GNP, it tries to assess the quality of life for a nation using factors like life expectancy, literacy, and education. See Wikipedia's page describing the index's formula and this year's rankings at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

The Happy Planet Index

The Happy Planet Index measures, among other factors, a nation's ecological impact.
"People can live long, happy lives without consuming large amounts of the Earth's resources, a survey suggests. The 178-nation "Happy Planet Index" lists the south Pacific island of Vanuatu as the happiest nation on the planet, while the UK is ranked 108th. The index is based on consumption levels, life expectancy and happiness, rather than national economic wealth measurements such as GDP. The study was compiled by think-tank the New Economics Foundation (Nef)." --from the BBC
The full BBC article is located here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5169448.stm
The Happy Planet Index is located here:
http://www.happyplanetindex.org/introduction.htm

GapMinder
GapMinder provides free very cool software to visualize nation statistics.

"...Gapminder, a Stockholm-based non-profit. Their extraordinary interactive graphs help you visualize complex global trends -- like the distribution of poverty, in different regions of the world, over time. The raw statistics would bore you to tears; the web graphs -- dynamic, colorful and clear -- are utterly compelling. They're worth a look -- not only for their particular content -- but for the possibilities presented by this marriage of technology, information and design. --June Cohen, TedBlog, 2005

Available at: http://www.gapminder.org

GDP, GNP, PPP ???
Confused by all the acronyms? This glossary, provided by World Bank, might help you out:
http://youthink.worldbank.org/glossary.php

Current Events / Election 2008

2008-09-25T12:47:00.005-05:00

From Ms. Rossler:

"At least 1 Friday every month class time will be devoted to a current events topic (The Iraq war, global terror, global warming, etc.). On the Monday of that week I will tell you the topic we are going to discuss on Friday and your job is to come to class on Friday prepared with notes that address the following three points of the issue. Until Election Day (November 4th), most of our Current Events Fridays (CEF) will relate to the U.S. presidential race, focusing predominantly on foreign policy issues. In what ways will this presidential race impact people and conflicts worldwide?"

for 9/26/08:

The presidential candidates are supposed to have their first debate tonight on foreign policy (which is currently up in the air). I would like you to research the current international issues, polling data, and other relevant information about the candidates to write 5-7 questions for each candidate you would like them to answer during tonight's debate.

At the end of class we will discuss your questions and why their answers are important. Additionally, if you watch the debate and write a reflection (did the candidate's answer your questions? did they respond to questions in ways you expected or surprised you?) you will earn extra credit.

Suggested Resources:

* The New York Times: www.nytimes.com

* CNN: www.cnn.com

* The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/

* Google News Search: http://news.google.com

* Worldpress.org—news and views from media around the world: http://www.worldpress.org/

* BBC news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/

* Politico.com: http://www.politico.com/

* Ontheissues.org: http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm

* InfoTrac's database of over 900 newspapers, both national and international. Available through the HS Library's page and at: http://www.hchs.hunter.cuny.edu:2048/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/nysl_me_cuny?id=empirelink

* and RealClearPolitics--a good site for polling information: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/

Researching Sustainability in Corporations

2008-03-17T13:01:00.001-05:00

http://www.greenerchoices.org
Consumer Reports' "Web-based initiative to inform, engage, and empower consumers about environmentally-friendly products and practices. GreenerChoices.org offers an accessible, reliable, and practical source of information on buying 'greener' products that have minimal environmental impact and meet personal needs."

http://www.greenercars.org/highlights.htm
"This official website for ACEEE's Green Book is a unique consumer resource providing Green Scores rating the environmental friendliness of every vehicle on market." Note that only some ratings are available via the website. The rest are only available through the book.

Six Sins of Greenwashing
http://www.terrachoice.com/Home/Six%20Sins%20of%20Greenwashing/The%20Six%20SinsGreen-wash (green'wash', -wôsh') – verb: the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service.

Business Week article on Greenwashing
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/mar2007/id20070329_693675.htm

http://www.dallas.k12.or.us/DHS_library/web/energy.htm
"Use this page to find substantive links to conventional energy sources, as well as new and renewable energy." From Dallas High School.

Historical Periodicals

2007-11-15T14:43:00.000-05:00

http://www.harpweek.com/
A free Website archiving materials from Harper's Weekly on specific historical topics of the nineteenth century, superbly organized for educational purposes (for research and for teaching primary historical and cultural research to secondary and post-secondary students). Current highlighted collections include Black America; the impeachment of Andrew Johnson; Civil War literature; presidential elections 1860-1884 (including the electoral college issue in the 1876 election); immigrant and ethnic America; the editorial cartoons of Thomas Nast; the American West; and 19th-century advertising. Each topic is introduced with contemporary scholarship.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. For more details about the project, see About MoA. Making of America is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/index.html
Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.

http://www.uvm.edu/%7Ehag/godey/index.html
This important journal included fashion plates as well as poems, fiction, editorials, literary notices, fashion and needlework patterns, and advice articles. Both websites listed include illustrations.

The above taken from : http://library.georgetown.edu/guides/19thcentury/#sources

Resources for your Science Fair Projects

2007-10-22T09:22:00.001-05:00

Online databases available through Hunter College High School's Library.
http://www.hchs.hunter.cuny.edu/index.php/library/other_databases
These databases, especially Ebscohost's Academic Search Premier and Infotrac's Junior Edition, are great places to look for magazine articles. You should be able to access these databases from home using your hunter email username and password. Let us know if this is not the case.

Animal Diversity Web
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/index.html
"Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan. ADW is a large searchable encyclopedia of the natural history of animals. Every day, thousands of classroom students and informal visitors use it to answer animal questions. Other sites specialize in local, endangered, or particular kinds of animals. We aim to be as comprehensive as possible."

Biology4Kids
http://www.biology4kids.com/

MAD Scientist Library
http://www.madsci.org/libs/libs.html
"Welcome to the MadSci Library, an excellent starting point for exploring science resources on the WWW."

IPL: Science Fair Project Resource Guide
http://www.ipl.org/div/projectguide/
"Are you looking for some help with a science fair project? If so, then you have come to the right place. The IPL will guide you to a variety of web site resources, leading you through the necessary steps to successfully complete a science experiment. If you have never done a science fair project before, it has been a while, or you just want to be sure you do a really great job be sure and look at the following websites for tips on what makes a good project before doing anything else. This way you will know ahead of time what will be expected of you..."

The Discover Channel's Science Fair Resouce Page
http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/
"Creative investigations into the real world." This site provides a complete guide to science fair projects. Check out the 'Handbook' which features information from Janice VanCleave, a popular author who provides everything you need to know for success. You can even send her a question about your project. [From IPL.]

SEED: Science Lab
www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/lab/index_virtual.htm
"The Science Lab offers ...online activities related to geology, physics, and space. Geared for ages 10–18, all of the projects come with a background lesson and most require minimal prep time. Created by: Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development, New York, NY." [quoted from :http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6376091.html]

Ask an expert
http://www.ipl.org/div/projectguide/toolsNresearch.html#askanexpert

Most of your research will probably be done on the internet or at the library, but if you’ve looked everywhere you can find, but still don’t have an answer, then it might be time to call an expert. At these sites, there are expert scientists who can answer your questions.

Before you send a question, be sure to read through each site’s archives, because someone may have already asked your question. Also, you should remember that it will usually take at least a couple days, maybe longer, for you to receive an answer.

Accessing Historic Newspapers

2007-09-27T13:41:00.000-05:00

Four major US papers--Atlanta Constitution (1868-1939), Boston Globe (1872-1924), Chicago Tribue (1849-1986), NYTimes (1851-2004)--are available through Proquest. To access, from the HCHS home page, mouse over "library" and then "edatabases" and then choose (the slightly misleadingly named) link: "NYT Historical". This database should be available for students to use from home with their username and password, however problems with access have been reported. Let me know what people's experiences are and I'll work with the technology department to see if they can be fixed.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841-1902) has been digitized by the Brooklyn Public Library and is available here:
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/index.htm

The Library of Congress has a beta site with several state newspapers (including from New York) available from 1900-1910 here:
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/

Freedom's Journal: The "first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. The Journal was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829. All 103 issues have been digitized and placed into Adobe Acrobat format."
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/

Two other places for newspaper links:
http://xooxleanswers.com/newspaperarchives4.aspx
and
http://www.nypl.org/links/index.cfm?Trg=1&d1=2209&d3=Historical+Newspapers

Accessing CIAO from home...

2007-01-08T09:45:00.000-05:00

If you want to use the CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) from home you must access it from the HCHS Library's page.

1) Go to the HCHS homepage at: http://www.hchs.hunter.cuny.edu
2) Click on "Library" at the top of this page.
3) Under "Full Text Resources" click on the link that says "Columbia International Affairs Online"
4) You'll be taken to a description of the database. On this page, click on the link that says, "CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)."
5) You will then be asked for your Hunter username and password. These are the same as your hunter email and should be in the form "Z2012123". You do NOT need to add ".12" to the end of this username.

You will not have to put in your username and password if you're accessing CIAO from school.

Facts About Nations

2006-12-19T08:46:00.000-05:00

CIAO

For quick access to general maps and basic facts, try the CIAO database (Columbia International Affairs Online). On the left you'll see a link to "maps/county data." From here you can find basic statistics like a nation's GDP, its military expenditure, death rate, and population. You can also compare the statistics of up to three countries. (All stats from from the CIA World Factbook.)

http://www.ciaonet.org/

NationMaster

If you really want to study a nation's statistics in depth, head to NationMaster.com. This constantly updated site takes data from various governments and NGO's (e.g. UN, WHO, OECD) and makes them available in comparable bar graphs, pie charts, and maps. Note that this is a private site with advertisements. A wide variety of likely and unlikely stats, like: working time to buy a car, age at first marriage for women, roller coasters per capita.
Source and definitions are available for each data set. From the homepage to get started, choose "Select Category" under Facts and Statistics. Note that you can generally choose to compare a "total" or a "per capita" statistic. You can also see correlations between statistics, (e.g. the inverse relationship between the number of McDonalds restaurants per capita and the number of couples with children) but remember: correlation does not necessarily mean that one trend causes another.

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

Human Development Index.

The U.N. pubishes each year a Human Development Index. Rather than traditional economic figures like GNP, it tries to assess the quality of life for a nation using factors like life expectancy, literacy, and education. See Wikipedia's page describing the index's formula and this year's rankings at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

The Happy Planet Index

The Happy Planet Index measures, among other factors, a nation's ecological impact.
"People can live long, happy lives without consuming large amounts of the Earth's resources, a survey suggests. The 178-nation "Happy Planet Index" lists the south Pacific island of Vanuatu as the happiest nation on the planet, while the UK is ranked 108th. The index is based on consumption levels, life expectancy and happiness, rather than national economic wealth measurements such as GDP. The study was compiled by think-tank the New Economics Foundation (Nef)." --from the BBC
The full BBC article is located here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5169448.stm
The Happy Planet Index is located here:
http://www.happyplanetindex.org/introduction.htm

GapMinder
GapMinder provides free very cool software to visualize nation statistics.

"...Gapminder, a Stockholm-based non-profit. Their extraordinary interactive graphs help you visualize complex global trends -- like the distribution of poverty, in different regions of the world, over time. The raw statistics would bore you to tears; the web graphs -- dynamic, colorful and clear -- are utterly compelling. They're worth a look -- not only for their particular content -- but for the possibilities presented by this marriage of technology, information and design. --June Cohen, TedBlog, 2005

Available at: http://www.gapminder.org

GDP, GNP, PPP ???
Confused by all the acronyms? This glossary, provided by World Bank, might help you out:
http://youthink.worldbank.org/glossary.php

Sciencebuddies.org

2006-11-08T12:50:00.000-05:00

Here's another site to help you with your Science Fair Project, courtesy of Mr. Keenan. It has a "Topic Selection Wizard" that attempts to match you with an area of science that will most interest you. It also has a step-by-step guide on "How to do a Science Fair Project." You can also post a question on the site's "Ask an Expert" page. Located at http://www.sciencebuddies.org/

Don't forget to look at these past posts for other science fair web sites:
here and here.

Library Thing

2006-11-08T09:27:00.000-05:00

Library Thing allows you to catalog your home collection of books. Because you put the catalog online, you can connect and share with users who have the same interest/books. Plus it has the easiest registration page ever. If you're not quite obsessive enough to catalog your personal collection, you can still use Library Thing to browse and find book recommendations based on other people's collections.

"Your profile connects you to people who share your books. With over 79,000 users and 5.6 million books in the system, you'll find some 'eerily similar' libraries."

Here's their intro tour:
http://www.librarything.com/tour/1

Hot technology trends

2006-11-08T09:14:00.000-05:00

http://scanblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/10-hot-trends.html
The below is from "It's all good" -- a blog from five OCLC Online Computer Library Center staff "about all things present and future that impact libraries and library users."

The Innovation Lab is in Denmark and refers to itself as "the Nordic observation post for the technologies of the future" ...So, here is IL's "Hotlist" ...and I am excerpting so go there and read the whole thing because it's worth it."

1. CUSTOMERMADE When customers and users "infiltrate" the product-development work of companies or organisations and begin to design and create their own products and services.

2. GEO-AWARENESS The filling station knows you're on your way, and – via the navigating system in your car or your mobile – it will send you an offer on the petrol, and at the same time it will advertise the dish of the day in the station's cafeteria.

3. THING CONNECTION Thing Connection is the keystone of the 4A concept – Anytime connection, Anywhere connection, Anything connection – by Anyone. Otherwise known as ”An internet of things” – in other words: when things communicate with each other.

4. VIRTUAL WORLDS Welcome to another reality! Close to 400,000 people have already settled in the virtual world Second Life. Here, BBC has arranged a major concert, and Harvard University has held a conference. There are more alternative digital worlds in the offing…

5. WEB APPLICATIONS - THE NEXT GENERATION The Web, and not the PC, constitutes the new centre of the universe. This entails a shift from software to web-based applications where the overt and the social will come to play an increasingly substantial part.

6. DIGITAL PRODUCT PLACEMENT Digital and virtual advertisement pillars. The digital billboard of the future will be blank space – to be filled in with messages directed at specific target groups. Thus, a major sports event attracting different viewer groups will, simultaneously, be showing ads for the local bakers as well as for an international online bank – and on two different TV stations.

7. WEB VIDEO Show me – see me! At first we had Google in the lead. Then they were overtaken by MySpace. Today they have both been left behind by the video-sharing web site YouTube, which is right now the most visited site in the world. Moving pictures has taken pole position.

8. MIXED REALITY The fusion of digital, virtual and physical products is near. The remote control of tomorrow will juggle the programmes; and, at the smallest flick of your wrist, your new telephone will scroll through the menu – and then it can also be used in a virtual game of table tennis .

9. EXPANDED SEARCH Search engines are becoming more than just a match of words and numbers in a colossal database. More "intelligent", meaningful and automatic searches are starting to gain foothold.

10. HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGY Profit-generating technologies and humanitarian aid in one! Too good to be true? Probably – but it's nevertheless a reality. A perspicacious neo-philanthropy is immanent.

Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources

2006-10-31T11:20:00.000-05:00

from the ONLINE EDUCATION DATABASE:

Got a research paper or thesis to write? Want to research using the Internet? Good luck. There's a lot of junk out there — outdated pages, broken links, and inaccurate information. Using Google or the Wikipedia may lead you to some results, but you can rarely be sure of accuracy. And what's more, you'll only be searching a fraction of all of the resources available to you.

Google, the largest search database on the planet, currently has around eight billion web pages indexed. That's a lot of information. But it's nothing compared to what else is out there. Google can only index the visible web, or searchable web. But the invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500 times bigger than the searchable web. The invisible web comprises databases and results of specialty search engines that the popular search engines simply are not able to index.

Do you think your local or university librarian uses Google? Sure, but certainly not exclusively. In order to start researching like a librarian, you'll need to explore more authoritative resources, many of which are invisible. Note: Although some of the following resources are visible and indexed, they have all been included here because of their authoritative nature.

The full list of resources here.

Need Science Fair Ideas? Try these...

2006-10-23T10:15:00.000-05:00

THE BELOW FROM GAIL JUNION-METZ'S COLUMN "THE LIBRARIAN'S INTERNET" HERE:
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6376091.html

Exploratorium: Online Activities
www.exploratorium.edu/explore/online.html
Need some Web-based science activities in a hurry? Here you’ll find almost 60 projects for ages 10–18 on a wide variety of topics. Most take little prep time (“Common Cents,” for example) but a few activities, especially those for older students, are more involved (such as “Build a Solar System”). Created by: The Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA. Don’t Miss: For all you baseball fans, there’s “Scientific Slugger,” a great way to learn the physics of hitting home runs. And for some tasty fun, visit the “Pickle Lab” and make some yummy virtual gherkins.

SEED: Science Lab
www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/lab/index_virtual.htm The Science Lab offers up 13 online activities related to geology, physics, and space. Geared for ages 10–18, all of the projects come with a background lesson and most require minimal prep time. Created by: Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development, New York, NY. Don’t Miss: If you like the “Will It Float?” segment of the David Letterman show, be sure to check out the “Buoyancy Explorer.”

MORE SCIENCE FAIR WEBSITES AND RESOURCES

2006-10-19T11:26:00.000-05:00

IPL: Science Fair Project Resource Guide
http://www.ipl.org/div/projectguide/
"Are you looking for some help with a science fair project? If so, then you have come to the right place. The IPL will guide you to a variety of web site resources, leading you through the necessary steps to successfully complete a science experiment. If you have never done a science fair project before, it has been a while, or you just want to be sure you do a really great job be sure and look at the following websites for tips on what makes a good project before doing anything else. This way you will know ahead of time what will be expected of you..."

The Discover Channel's Science Fair Resouce Page
http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/
"Creative investigations into the real world." This site provides a complete guide to science fair projects. Check out the 'Handbook' which features information from Janice VanCleave, a popular author who provides everything you need to know for success. You can even send her a question about your project. [From IPL.]

PLAGIARISM

2006-03-09T14:19:00.000-05:00

What is Plagiarism?
Follow the above link to get definitions of plagiarism and related words from various web sources. Merriam-Webster's definition states, plagiarism is to "present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source."

The Consequences of Plagiarism
http://www.gananda.k12.ny.us/library/mshslibrary/plagexamples.htm
Real-life examples of plagiarism's consequences: a student's admission to Harvard gets rescinded; presidential hopeful Senator Joe Biden's campaign derailed by accusations of plagiarism; university presidents are forced to resign; journalists lose their credibility and jobs.

Avoiding Plagiarism
Purdue's Online Writing Lab has created a great webpage on plagiarism.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/research/r_plagiar.html

Are you a plagiarist? Take this self test.
http://ec.hku.hk/plagiarism/self_test.htm
A teacher, David Gardner, at the University of Hong Kong has created this excellent website, which includes a test to evaluate if you know how to avoid plagiarism. [Note: the use of the single quotation mark is British usage; American usage is to use the double quotation mark. Please ask if you've any questions about this.]

NPR story on Plagiarism
"Guest Host Melissa Block talks with Thomas Mallon, author of Stolen Words: Forays into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism, about the discovery of plagiarism by well-known authors such as Steven Ambrose, and research techniques which should help avoid the problem. (4:30)"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1136141

What is copyright?
What is Fair Use?
But I'm using it for "educational" purposes. Am I ok?
http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-b.html

HOW TO FIND ARTICLES WITH EBSCOHost

2005-12-06T09:40:00.000-05:00

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1) Use good Keywords.

-Do background research by looking at general science texts, encyclopedias, and your text book. Ask your teacher for suggestions. Brainstorm.

2) EXPAND your search.

-Search for related words. Automatically AND seach terms.
-If you still aren't getting enough results, search within the full text of articles.

3) LIMIT your search.

-Choose only "Magazines" from your result page so as to get only those articles written for a general audience.

4) SORT your results by relevancy

5) Look at SUBJECT HEADINGS.

-Run another search using one or more subject headings by using the flag "DE". Combine subject headings with keywords for more precise searches.

A FEW GOOD SCIENCE PERIODICALS

2005-12-06T09:30:00.000-05:00

Science News (available in the library and full text through EBSCOHost)

Chemmatters (available through the library and through the Science Dept on CD-ROM)

Discover (available in the library and full text through EBSCOHost)

Scientific American (available in the library and full text through EBSCOHost)

Popular Science (available in the library and full text through EBSCOHost)

New York Times’ Science Times (Available in the library)

Science Fair Websites & Eresources

2005-10-12T13:47:00.000-05:00

Some descriptions below taken from lii.org.

Frank Potter's Science Gems
"Great links to Great Science Resources. More than 14,000 Science Resources sorted by Category, Subcategory, and Grade Level."
http://sciencegems.com/

MadSci Network
This Web site unites "hundreds of scientists in a forum where people can ask questions and learn more about the world around them." Questions submitted must be science related and are usually answered within seven days. Questions and answers are archived and can be searched by subject, keyword, and grade level. An excellent source for science project ideas, classroom activities, and trivia.
http://www.madsci.org/

National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
"NSDL provides educational resources for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education." The site features links to hundreds of digital resources for teaching and learning about science. Material is searchable or browsable by topic. Also includes news and highlights from the collection. Searchable. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
http://nsdl.org/

SciCentral
A directory of links to "today's breaking science news." Browsable by topic, including biosciences, health sciences, physics, chemistry, earth and space, and engineering. Also includes links to related journals, databases, job opportunities, and conferences.
http://scicentral.com/

How Stuff Works
A commercial site that describes the mechanics of how things work. Subdivisions include explanations of automechanics, computers, electronics, and the human body.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

GENERAL NEWS SITES

2005-09-20T12:36:00.000-05:00

[Some below descriptions adapted from www.lii.org – the Librarians’ Index to the Internet.]

The New York Times
Nicknamed "The Gray Lady" and often called the newspaper of record, The Economist called this paper the most "prestigious newspaper in the world." For a brief account of its history, organization, and alleged biases, click here.
http://www.nytimes.com

CNN.com
One of the most frequently updated news sites. Has news digest and feature stories and images, covering weather, sports, science and technology, travel, style, entertainment, health, environment, and United States, world, and local news. Past articles can be searched.
http://www.cnn.com/

HeadlineSpot.com
A searchable free "guide to thousands of the best U.S. and international news sources on the Web." Easily access more than 2600 headlines and thousands of news links by subject, location, industry, or media type. Compiled by journalists, educators, librarians, engineers, and business people. A good place to access international English-language new sources.
http://headlinespot.com/

Google News Search
News from a variety of major publications and newspapers, updated as events unfold. Searchable; browsable by major categories such as sports, business, technology, regional, and Headline News.
http://news.google.com/

Other News Search Engines
SearchEngineWatch.com has an annotated list of search engines dedicated to news. “If you are still looking for news using 'normal' search engines, stop doing it! You'll find the services below to be a much better way to search for the latest news stories from hundreds of sources on the web. These services provide exceptionally good results for current event searching, because they crawl only news sites and revisit these sites several times per day. Thus, the results are usually focused and timely.”
http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156261

Newspapers from around the world
Compiled by Refdesk.com, “a free and family-friendly site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current reference resources.” Includes a list of the top 10 US papers as well as a list of which US papers have searchable archives. Note: many broken links.
http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html

The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
A trade organization for the weekly newspaper business. These local "alternative" weeklies often provide a different and local perspective in comparison to their mainstream counterparts. The below link will take you to a directory of the organization's member papers.
http://aan.org/gyrobase/Aan/NewsweeklyDirectory

Conservative New Sources
A list of conservative newspaper opinion pages and news sources, as determined by About.com. Sources include The Conservative Index, and the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal.
http://usconservatives.about.com/od/conservativeopinionpages/

Progressive News Sources
A list of left-leaning magazines and their websites. Compiled by the Yahoo! directory. Souces included are The Nation and Mother Jones magazine.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Political_Opinion/Progressive/Magazines

Citation Machine

2005-09-13T13:04:00.000-05:00

From the site:
"Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers in modeling the proper use of information property. Students are welcome to use this as well. You merely...
1) Click the type of resource you wish to cite,
2) Complete the Web form that appears with information from your resource, and
3) Click Make Citations to generate standard MLA & APA citations.
The primary goal of this tool is to make the proper crediting of information property so easy that it becomes a habit, not a laborious task that we stop doing outside of school."
Available at: http://citationmachine.net/

HURRICANE KATRINA WEB RESOURCES

2005-09-12T13:46:00.000-05:00

Librarians’ Index to the Internet.
Links to various resources on Katrina, divided into topic headings. Includes resources on Environmental Factors, Gas Prices, Flood Control, News Coverage, and more. http://lii.org/search/file/hurricanekatrina

MAJOR NEWS SOURCES

The New York Times: Hurricane Katrina
Collection of news stories on Hurricane Katrina. Includes photos, graphics, satellite images, video, and a list of relief organizations. Includes stories on flood risk and levee failure, Gulf Coast oil operations and gas prices, economic impacts, and related topics. Very good interactive timeline.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/nationalspecial/index.html

In Depth: Hurricane Katrina
Collection of news stories and analysis about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath from a British perspective. Includes a timeline, animations of the path of the storm and how hurricanes happen, map of evacuee destinations, amounts of foreign aid offered to the United States, information about draining New Orleans, eyewitness accounts, photos, and more. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/americas/2005/hurricane_katrina/default.stm

CNN.com: Hurricane Katrina
News coverage of the disaster includes satellite images, personal accounts, a list of people reported safe at CNN's hurricane victims desk, photographs submitted by the public, stories about economic issues (such as gas price gouging and federal disaster relief), and stories about health issues (such as potential disease outbreaks and status of medical facilities). Also includes video clips. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/

Good timeline of communication and relief breakdown created by NPR.
(from http://www.pastpeak.com/archives/2005/09/npr_timeline.htm):
Or, in two parts at:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/duncanblack/npr1.htm
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/duncanblack/npr2.htm

LOCAL NEWS SOURCES

WWLTV
Live local news in New Orleans, including articles, a blog, and continuous Internet television coverage, from WWLTV, a television station. Find a broad range of news and information related to Hurricane Katrina, including road closures, school status, health tips, emergency information, missing people locators, and more.
http://www.wwltv.com/

SunHerald.com: Hurricane Katrina
Collection of news stories on Hurricane Katrina from the online version of the Sun-Herald newspaper, which covers Biloxi, Gulfport, and surrounding areas in south Mississippi. Includes town-by-town damage reports, photos, videos, blogs, and other features.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/hurricane_katrina/

Article from October 2001 Scientific American:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=00060286-CB58-1315-8B5883414B7F0000
or run a search with “scientific american drowning new Orleans”