{"id":1886,"date":"2012-05-24T18:33:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T01:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2012-05-24T18:33:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T01:33:21","slug":"research-and-the-power-of-google-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/2012\/05\/research-and-the-power-of-google-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Research and the Power of Google Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you dropped by recently, you&#8217;ll notice that we&#8217;ve been using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/software\/google-docs-for-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Docs<\/a>\u00a0(Google Apps for Education) to enhance the writing process. \u00a0(For more, select the category &#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Literacy &#8211; Writing Process<\/em><\/span>.) And we&#8217;ve had amazing results. \u00a0Now\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/software\/google-docs-for-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Docs<\/a>\u00a0has &#8220;upped the bar&#8221; and added an integrated research feature.<\/p>\n<h3>HOW IT WORKS<\/h3>\n<p>In\u00a0<strong>Docs<\/strong>, let&#8217;s say you wrote your beginning topic sentence, highlighting the word \u00a0or words you wish to gather more information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/googledocs_research.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"googledocs_research\" src=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/googledocs_research.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right click and choose &#8220;<strong>Research<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;. \u00a0 A research toolbar opens to the right side where you can select (click on the google icon) articles, images, or quotes on the topic.<a href=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/googledocs_research2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"googledocs_research2\" src=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/googledocs_research2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You now have a flexible way of reading and inserting what you need in order to support your research questions. \u00a0Moreover,\u00a0<a title=\"Google Docs\" href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google\u00a0Docs<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0will automatically footnote (APA) the source for you. \u00a0 This allows you an integrated way to collect information from a variety of sources and collate them in one document. \u00a0This could be a great organizational tool for refining research notes. \u00a0MMhhh&#8230;perhaps now the question might include how do you critically analyze the validity \u00a0or the bias of the information?<\/p>\n<p>How are you using Google Docs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you dropped by recently, you&#8217;ll notice that we&#8217;ve been using\u00a0Google Docs\u00a0(Google Apps for Education) to enhance the writing process. \u00a0(For more, select the category &#8211;\u00a0Literacy &#8211; Writing Process.) And we&#8217;ve had amazing results. \u00a0Now\u00a0Google Docs\u00a0has &#8220;upped the bar&#8221; and added an integrated research feature. HOW IT WORKS In\u00a0Docs, let&#8217;s say you wrote your beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4642,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,111,17,1,20],"tags":[25,30,35,36,37,41,47,50,77,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}