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Enhancing Online Research Skills: Discovering Educational Resources

This guide aims to assist educators and learners in effectively searching the web for educational resources. It highlights best practices for online searches, such as choosing the right search terms, using advanced search options, and employing specific commands like INURL. Additionally, it introduces valuable educational web gateways and subscription e-resources available through your college. Engage in hands-on activities to find and save useful resources. Explore platforms like Google Scholar and various free web gateways, ensuring a diverse range of materials for teaching and learning.

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Enhancing Online Research Skills: Discovering Educational Resources

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  1. Finding and using learning resources from the web Matt Gallon m.gallon@wlv.ac.uk 01902 824431

  2. Aims • assist you in searching the web more effectively • raise awareness of some of the best educational web gateways for teaching and learning • try some of the subscription e-resources available at your college

  3. Better Googling • choose correct search terms • phrase searching • advanced search options: • Restricted domain or date searches • Search for specific formats • INURL:stoke (within web addresses) • Finding images www.google.co.uk scholar.google.com www.googleguide.com

  4. Saving sites for later • Use Word: copy and paste web site address and click enter/drag and drop the “e” symbol. • Cut and paste a section of text from a web page into Word. Use “unformatted text” option to exclude graphics • Use Internet Explorer Favourites and create a folder • Avoid saving web sites in their entirety

  5. Hands-on activity • Using Google and the tips you’ve been given, explore some web sites related to your subject. • Copy and paste the URLs of some useful resources into a Word document • Try and include a range of resource types: images, journal articles, presentations etc.

  6. Free web gateways Resource Discovery Network www.rdn.ac.uk Ask Butler www.learningtechnologies.ac.uk FERL Resource Bank www.ferl.becta.org.uk

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