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Search, Research and Curation Tools

Search & Research

"Creative Commons helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world. We unlock the full potential of the internet to drive a new era of development, growth, and productivity. " -Creativecommons.org

Curation Tools

Lists, Boards, Websites. Curate whatever you need visually like a Post-it on board. One of my personal favorites.

Storify of Favorite Tools

Storify is a great tool to gather resources at trainings, Twitter Chats or whenever you just want a list of your favs handy.

Recommended for Educators and Librarians

"The CC Educator Certificate aims to ensure all educators have the grounding and digital literacy associated with successfully using Creative Commons for open educational resources, open practices, open policy, and open pedagogy. Learning activities generate practical tools and resources to be applied and used in work right away." -CreativeCommons.org

Tools for analyzing primary sources and close reading.
Google Search Help document

Google Tools

Learning to use Explore to Cite in Google Docs
Ways to cite images
List of Common Google Search Operators
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Curate your resources in Google Sites. It's simplistic and much easier to locate links then Bookmarking.
A gathering of resources and lesson plans covering Research, Information gathering, Information sources, Information, sharing, Search strategies, Evaluating Information, and Citing sources.
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