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Weblogs in Education - Edublogs This article from the Web Tools Newsletter gives a good overview and lots of links to information about the use of weblogs in education. "For people at groundlevel in education, the Weblog is becoming the Web-presence of choice..."
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Seeking Information for School Purposes on the Internet An article in the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, Winter 2003, by Holly Gunn and Gary Hepburn. Abstract:
"This paper reports the findings of a study undertaken in four
Nova Scotia public schools of twelfth grade students' information
seeking strategies when they use the Internet as an information
source. Various Nova Scotia Department of Education curriculum
documents hold high expectations of students' information seeking
strategies when using the Internet for educational purposes. This
study looks at whether these expectations are being realized. The
results include the students' use of specific information seeking
strategies, knowledge of World Wide Web Search engines, as well
as how students acquired their Internet information seeking
knowledge, and students' perceptions of their ability to locate
information on the Internet. The results of the study have
important implications for Internet education and the role of
information professionals in public schools."
The complete articles for this issue will be available on June 16, 2003.
[From the IASL listserv; message from Gerald Brown]
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