Moss Vale Linkages 2008

Researching the Olympics

Below are hyperlinks to three Websites. Look at each site and using the evaluation guidelines from the ICT Skills page write a one hundred word evaluation.

Site 1
Site 2
Site 3

The Research Cycle

Oval: Text Box: QUESTIONING
- emphasise research questions requiring either problem-solving or decision-making Text Box: PLANNING
- subsidiary questions; where the best information lies. What sources are most insightful ? Reliable sources ?
- How to sort/sift/store findings. Text Box: REPORTING
- findings presented to a (simulated or real) decision-making audience.

Text Box: From We Weave the Web, Jamie McKenzie, 1996
http://www.fno.org/ascd.html#cycle

Text Box: EVALUATING
- is more research needed before proceeding ? May require several repetitions of the cycle.

Text Box: SYNTHESISING
- ‘jigsaw-puzzling’; student teams arrange and rearrange the information fragments till patterns or ‘pictures’ emerge. Synthesis is fuelled by the tension of a powerful research question.

Text Box: SORTING AND SIFTING
- systematic scanning and organising of data; setting aside that which is most likely to lead to insight.

Text Box: GATHERING
- relevant, useful information. Collecting and recording from sources. Students structure findings as they go.