1. Digital Learning Research

2. Online Searches Find
Web Sites Centered on a topic
• Text form or variety of media
Blogs Single author or small groups
• Short text with hyperlinks

3. Podcasts Audio Recording
• Great for sound effects
• Record presentations
Wikis Multiple authors
• Quick editing

4. • Online Searches produce many types of
results.
• Learn each type
• Therefore when researching, time will be
spent evaluating the content instead of the
type.
Wikis
Blogs Podcast
Web Site

5. Primary Sources
These are original records or
items from the past
Encourage
researchers to use
critical thinking
skills to evaluate Cite research Easier to check
documents in the from primary validity of
context of which sources sources
they were written
(Ruffin, E., &
Capell, L., 2009).

6. Is it a primary
source?
Verifying
Sources
Is the resource
Is it a valid site?
accurate?

7. Sources on the Web
To find a site again in the future may be
difficult in the masses of information on the
internet, therefore, using different tools can
retrieve those sites easily (Richardson, 2010).
• Bookmarking
• RSS Aggregators

8. • A service where links are saved and
labeled with keywords to organize and
share with the world (Richardson, 2010).
• Connects us to what others read
Diigo is a site where people can set up an account to
save links and label them , for example “free” and
“software”. Diigo also allows highlighting of
information. Others can see the highlighted
portions.

9. • Collects regularly updated information
from multiple sites subscribed to at one
location (Richardson, 2010).
• Connects us to what others write
A teacher may subscribe to eight different math
blogs through Google Reader. By logging into
Google Reader the teacher has updates from all
eight blogs. It saves time from going to blog to blog
to retrieve new information.

10. References
M.U.S.E. AIU online, Career Education Corporation 2010
Richardson, W. (2010). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web
tools for classrooms. Corwin Press.
Ruffin, E., & Capell, L. (2009). Dispelling the Myths: Using Primary
Sources in the K-12 Classroom. Children & Libraries: The
Journal Of The Association For Library Service To Children, 7(1),
26-31.