Taking notes
Using the same global environmental disaster that you have brainstormed in your Spiderscribe, find credible sources to gether information for your final assessment.
1. Prepare to research the following points in relation to your global environmental disaster:
2. Find some trustworthy sources which will give you accurate information and images about your topic. To determine the reliability of a website, you will need to look ask WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? WHY?
Look at this page for more information.
Remember: to recieve an 'A' grade, you need to find information from at least 5 sources, including 2 databases.
A refresher on how to use databases and find alternative information sources can be found here.
3. Use Diigo to put all of your information together. Diigo uses Chrome. Please make sure you have Chrome downloaded onto your device. Please go to IT help if you have difficulty doing this.
Follow the instructions to download Diigo onto your device:
Diigo for Chrome
Once you have installed Diigo, your teacher will show you how to:
1. Prepare to research the following points in relation to your global environmental disaster:
- How did (insert your own specific focus here) occur?
- What impact did it have on the people and the environment in (insert the name of the specific location here)?
- Who were the various stake holders connected to this environmental disaster?
- Individual and collective actions to stop an environmental disaster like this from occurring again.
- Outcomes and consequences of these individual and collective actions
2. Find some trustworthy sources which will give you accurate information and images about your topic. To determine the reliability of a website, you will need to look ask WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? WHY?
Look at this page for more information.
Remember: to recieve an 'A' grade, you need to find information from at least 5 sources, including 2 databases.
A refresher on how to use databases and find alternative information sources can be found here.
3. Use Diigo to put all of your information together. Diigo uses Chrome. Please make sure you have Chrome downloaded onto your device. Please go to IT help if you have difficulty doing this.
Follow the instructions to download Diigo onto your device:
Diigo for Chrome
Once you have installed Diigo, your teacher will show you how to:
- Save good webpages into your Diigo library
- Save images to your Diigo library
- Highlight important text that is relevant to your research question
- Add comments to a webpage
- Tag your websites to make searching your Diigo library more effective
Manual Note Taking
The free version of Diigo will not let you highlight PDF articles. You also might need to takes notes from non-digital sources such as books or articles from the Vertical File. Use the document below as a template for taking notes from sources without using Diigo .
You will need a new template for every new source you use:
The free version of Diigo will not let you highlight PDF articles. You also might need to takes notes from non-digital sources such as books or articles from the Vertical File. Use the document below as a template for taking notes from sources without using Diigo .
You will need a new template for every new source you use:
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