1. Getting Curious:
Information to feed your creativity
and how to search Google like a Pro
http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/your-study/library-and-it-support
Product Design Oct 2017
2. Today we will look at....
•Being curious
•Imagination
•Keywords
•Search tips
5. USA OR America (broaden search)
design* (broaden search eg. Design, designers, designing etc)
“Festival of Britain” (phrase search)
+Ideo or “IDEO” (exact match)
Define: “paper prototyping” (definition)
Jaguar -Cat (exclude words)
Related:http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/ (find similar sites)
Scandinavian site: design (find a subject in specific types of sites)
“Scandinavian design” site: ac (find a subject within academic websites)
Smarter searching
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_miley/2614472057/
http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/pdde/SearchTips
6. Broaden your search by
adding an asterisk* to the
trunk of the word e.g.
Comput* will find
computer, computerized,
computing, computation
etc.
7. Adding “quotation marks”
around a group of words
will ensure that those
words are found together
as a phrase e.g. “Human
Resource Management”.
This is useful when the
individual words are
common (e.g. project
management) and will
ensure that your search
results are more
focussed i.e. “Project
Management”
8. You can also access
many of these
refining tools in most
search engines
including Google.
Settings
9. Click on ‘Tools’ to
refine your search
by ‘location’ or
‘date’.
Tools
http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/pdde/Internet
12. Evaluating websites
You can start to evaluate websites by looking at the URL
e.g. www .nice.org.uk
In the URL What it means
.com (US or anywhere)
.co.uk (UK)
Commercial organisation or company
big or small
.fr .au .uk .sa The country where the
organisation/company is located
.org
.org.uk
A non profit organisation
UK organisation
.edu (US)
.ac.uk (UK)
Academic institutions
.gov A government agency
Williams, K. 2014 Getting critical. 2 edn. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
15. • Describe what you see in your picture
• Search Google to find 3 interesting/surprising
facts connected with the picture
• Use the search tips
• Share how you found this information with the
rest of the class.
32. Need further help?
Your Librarian is:
Vanessa Hill v.hill@mdx.ac.uk
http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/pdde/Help
Editor's Notes
Session all about curiosity and being a good designer.
Iceberg picture will make more sense later on.
Why you should get curious
The reason why it is good to research
Feeding your creativity
Using keywords and serch tips to search for information
We’ll be concentrating on the Internet as your source of information.
Your finished product (or essay, project etc) is just the tip of the iceberg.
Below it is should be loads of research ie. looking at theory and facts, being inspired, getting ideas, stimulating your imagination etc.
Limited research = less creativity.
Finished design might not be as good as it could be.
Find out as much as you can.
Question, discuss, be inspired, think etc
Feed your creativity…….library resources can help you do this.
Below it is should be loads of research ie. looking at theory and facts, being inspired, getting ideas, stimulating your imagination etc.
Research at Uni of Huddersfield shows that students who use library resources get better degrees.
We’re going to start off with an exercise to get you thinking about keywords.
The keywords you use are important to get what you want from the Internet, but you can also use some of these search tips to ensure that you get what you want.
You can also access many of these refining tools in most search engines such as Google……..just click on ‘Settings’ and choose ‘Advanced search’.
Click on Tools to further refine your search by country and date.
You can find a guide to searching the Internet (called ‘Google and beyond’) at the URL on the screen.
Let students continue searching for another 5 mins.
************Now its time for the presentations***************
After about 20 mins ask each group in turn to show us how they found their item using the demo computer and importantly why they chose it.
Ask the students to hang on to their worksheets as this will be useful later on when they have a go at referencing.
Sometimes you need to find the best quality information e.g. if you need medical advice. The keywords you use will affect your search results.
When you’re deciding what words to put in the search box, try to choose words that are likely to appear on the site you’re looking for.
Eg. The word ‘headache’ is more likely to be used on a medical site.
Not just with Google, but need to consider with any type of search you may carry out.
When you’re deciding what words to put in the search box, try to choose words that are likely to appear on the site you’re looking for.
Eg. The word ‘headache’ is more likely to be used on a medical site.
Not just with Google, but need to consider with any type of search you may carry out.
Hand out worksheets to small groups. Ideally more than one group should have the same image so that we can compare the search results. Each worksheet displays one of these images, plus a variety of questions (see below):
Describe what you see in the picture
List 3 interesting/surprising facts connected with the picture
Start to research the image/topic on the Internet:
Feedback after.
Google Search has finally added a simple way to search for images that have reuse rights.
Trend and colour forecasting, business strategy, trade news etc
Trends, forecasting, interviews, careers
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