1. Define your taskAsk yourself these questions to help start off the information process:
What do you want to find out? Read the task - discuss what is involved. Develop an idea of the issues to be explored. Think about: What is your purpose? What is it asking of you? What are the key words and ideas of the task? Identify key words - find similar key words - broader and narrower terms and ideas from other sources. Research takes some planning and thinking. When using a search engine - use AND, NOT, and OR and use quotation marks for phrases. Google.com.au How Google works for a visual explanation. Or use Google advanced search What do you need to do? BRAINSTORM IDEAS...KEYWORDS...SIMILAR IDEAS...START THINKING. |
Some tools to help you get started:
Use Visuwords to show visual relationships between ideas and words.
Copy and paste some info into a Wordle (it's a word cloud) and you will see the main ideas. Use Bubbl.us to create a mind map that you can upload to your blog. Here is another good mind mapping tool that you can print. Try Brainstorming some ideas here. |