Showing posts with label educational search engines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label educational search engines. Show all posts

Excellent Visual Search Engine for Students

11:25 PM    

November 7, 2014
InstaGrok is an interactive search engine that allows students to search for any topic in a visually engaging way. When students conduct a search query, InstaGrok finds the relevant information related to that query and present it in the form of interactive concept maps (grok). Using InstaGrok, students will be able to explore educational content including videos and images, evaluate sources, collect evidence and use it to craft a search report.



InstaGrok also allows students to take notes while researching a topic and provides teachers with a section where they can review students work and create new assignments together with the ability to guides students throughout their research project. Watch the videos below to learn more about InstaGrok.

1- How to Use InstaGrok with students in class , by Pascale Ngo



2- Instagrok demo



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3 Great Search Engines Designed Specifically for Students

5:56 PM    

October 29, 2014
Being able to conduct efficient searches using different search engines is one of the essential component of the digital literacy we talked about earlier.Together with this, students are also required to develop necessary skills that will enable them to evaluate and assess the authenticity and reliability of web resources they are drawing on in their research. The net is teeming with all kinds of content and some of it is nothing but junk or, to borrow Howard Rheingold phrase, "information crap". EdTech and Mlearning has a whole section dedicated to search tips, ideas and tools to help your students become "smart  searchers", check it out to learn more.

Today, I am sharing with you three search engines I learned from Getting Smart designed specifically for students. These search engines are manned and monitored by librarians, search experts and in the case of iPL2 by students.

1- iPl2



ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections. It is through the efforts of these students and volunteers that the ipl2 continues to thrive to this day.

2- SweetSearch

SweetSearch is operated by a team of research experts, librarians and teachers who evaluated and approve anything that you find on the website. SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. SweetSearch  excludes not only obvious spam sites, but also marginal sites that read well, but lack academic or journalistic rigor.

3- Kids Click


KidsClick is owned and run by the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Kent State University. KidsClick! is a web search site designed for kids by librarians - with kid-friendly results!

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11 Great Search Engines for Social Science Researchers

4:54 AM    

July 30, 2014
In today's post I am sharing with you some interesting search engines ideal for folks in engaged in social science research.Researchers working in the fields of psychology, anthropology, and related subjects will find great results using these search engines.

Behavioral Brain Science Archive:


Check out this searchable archive to find extensive psychology and brain science articles.
In this research network, you can find a wide variety of social science research from a number of specialized networks including cognitive science, leadership, management, and social insurance.
Find a journal with Psycline’s journal and article locator, a tool that offers access to more than 2,000 psychology and social science journals online.

Search the languages of the world with Ethnologue, offering an encyclopedic reference of all the world’s known living languages. You’ll also be able to find more than 28,000 citations in the Ethnologue’s language research bibliography.
Use this site from the University of Amsterdam to browse sociological subjects including activism, culture, peace, and racism.
Check out this guide to find all of the sociological resources you’ll need on the internet. The SocioWeb offers links to articles, essays, journals, blogs, and even a marketplace.
With this custom Google search engine, you can find open access articles about archaeology.
Search or browse the Encyclopedia of Psychology to find basic information, and even translations for information about psychology careers, organizations, publications, people, and history.
Through this database, you can get access to anthropology reviews, look up publishers, and find resources available for review.
This anthropological online search includes both general search of 4,000 periodicals held in The British Museum Anthropology Library as well as Royal Anthropological Institute films.
Political Information is a search engine for politics, policy, and political news with more than 5,000 carefully selected websites for political information.

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9 Great Google Alternatives for Academics and Student Researchers

11:41 PM  ,  

June 2, 2014
While Google remains a robust search engine with great capabilities and potential for us in education and academia, sometimes it seems more plausible to use specific and topic-based search engines to look for better search results. In the world of academia where  journal articles and research papers are the mainstay of learning and academic production, it becomes even more pressing to have a handy list of specifically designed search engines to easily search for and access journal articles and academic periodicals and papers. In this regard, I compiled a list of some of the best academic search engines that you can use for this purpose.

1- Academia.edu

This is one of my favourite search engines for academic papers. Academia.edu  is a place to share and follow research. You can use it to search for papers submitted by other scholars or you can share your own papers. Academia.edu is also a community of academic researchers where you can create your profile and follow others who share similar research interests.

2- Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

 Related : 9 Tips Every Teacher Should Know about Google Scholar

3- JURN

JURN is another wonderful search engine to use to search for millions of free academic articles, chapters, and theses across multiple disciplines ( Arts, History, Humanities, Business, Economics, Ecology, Science and more). JURN is also a directory of over 3000 free arts and humanities journals that you can easily search from one single platform.

4- RefSeek

RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

5- HighBeam

HighBeam Research is a premium information service built for students, instructors, researchers, professionals, and others looking to gain deep knowledge on subjects of interest. HighBeam provides access to thousands of credible, professional, published sources

6- Springer

Springer is a powerful academic platform that provides researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from a wide variety of journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.

7- BASE


BASE is a voluminous search engine especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. As a search engine, BASE facilitates effective and targeted searches and retrieves high quality, academically relevant results.The sources which are included in BASE are intellectually selected and reviewed.

8- List of academic databases and search engines


This page contains a representative list of major databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles.

9- ERIC

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is another great search engine that academics can use to search for scientific papers.You can use ERIC to search for peer reviewed papers or use its advanced search tips to refine your search and target specific journals and papers.

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