GED 597 - Teaching With Technology

Spring 2007  -  Instructor: David Davidson

bulletGuest Speaker:
 Steve Burks
Office: Library 210
Phone: 654-2354
sburks@smcvt.edu

 

bullet Library Hours
bullet Reference Hours
bulletALSO, by Appointment:

George Boole, engraving.
George Boole, engraving.
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.

English mathematician who helped establish modern symbolic logic and whose algebra of logic, now called Boolean algebra  - basic to searching online databases and search engines

If you get lost... go to the St. Michael's Library homepage 

Contents
 

bullet Search Statementts and Boolean (Keyword)  Searching

bullet Indexes and Full Text Databases - Alpha List: Academic Search Premiere, 

 Indexes by Subject
Education Related - ERIC, ProQuest Education Journals, PsycInfo and other databases.

Library Indexes/Full text databases VERSUS  Google

bullet ERIC Database  Info - Basic Searching // Advanced Searching & Limit Results

--  ERIC Thesaurus:  Controlled Vocabulary
 
bullet Academic Search Premier  Info

 
bullet ProQuest Education Journals   Info

 
bullet Ejournals A-to-Z  - finding electronic access to journal holding
example searches -  "Reading Teacher"  ,  New York Times 2001

 
bulletOff Campus Access to LIS Databases

SEARCH STATEMENT

Write Out Your Search Statement and Circle the main topics.  Then break the topics into synonymous, broader, and narrower terms

Example Search Statement:

The influence of Educational Technology on math for the  middle school student

 
Break down statement terms into broader, narrower and synonymous terms
- use terms found in journal citations and ERIC Thesaurus
 
Educational Technology math middle school
     
 

Example Database Search String- 

ERIC

"educational technology" and math and "middle school"
 

ProQuest Education
 

 

 

 

 

Your Search Statement:

 

 
Term: Term: Term:
 

 

 

    

Use OR to search Synonymous Terms 
Use AND to search and narrow 

 

 

Last update: 01/22/2007