Do You Know Instagrok.com?
Information Literacy | Learn about Information Literacy on instaGrok, the research engine Whenever I start working with students on a research project or paper, I ask them if they have thought about the keywords that they are going to use to find information. After selecting a topic, I think finding quality and relevant keywords is one of the most important aspects of developing good research skills. This is important whether you are using print resources and need to use the index in a book or using a subscription database or even a general search engine. The problem with helping students find their keywords is that for large projects every student has a different topic. Working one on one is extremely time consuming. Last fall at an in-school staff development session, one of the teachers shared a resource called, Instagrok . It is a search engine, but it doesn't look anything like Google. It is very visual and uses concept maps to display results. The teachers in the ...