Traditional and untraditional research for the A Level Extended project
1. www.le.ac.uk
Traditional and untraditional research methods
for the A level Extended Project
Terese Bird
Learning Technologist and SCORE Research Fellow
For Queen Elizabeth I College EPQ seminar 2 July 2014
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2. What will we talk about?
• Go to the libraries
• Wikipedia
• Is Google evil?
• What’s ‘good’ online info?
• Excellent online ‘libraries’
• How to reference YouTube,
iTunes U, Flickr
• Online surveys and
interviews
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3. University of Leicester Library/Public library
• http://www.le.ac.uk/library
• Only print books
• Open late!
• Public libraries
• eBooks at public libraries!
University of Leicester DWL on Flickr
5. The truth about Google
• Google is a business, not a service
• When you Google something, the results are
different from when your friend Googles it
• Examine the website carefully
6. Websites can have excellent information
but…
• Consider the motive of the writer
• Advert?
• Look at the small print
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11. What’s ‘good’?
• ‘Peer reviewed‘
• ‘Primary source’
• Examine the motivation for writing
• Examine who paid for it
• Educational authorities
• BBC, Government
