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I was browsing through an older issue of Learning & Leading with Technology (September/October 2007) when I found an article titled, Improving Student Research by Catherine Tannahill and Leslie Ricklin. The authors break the research process into four steps, the first being investigation. In this step students should identify the type of information needed and available to them. They recommend that educators teach, model and reinforce basic and advanced Internet search techniques so that students can learn how to best use their time. For example...

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Each issue of EDTECHMAG.com has a lot of lesson plan resources worth exploring, adapting, and making your own. The latest issue features these two:

• Digitizing History: Students explore great moments in the past and build web skills along the way. [Elementary]

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Do you want to quickly and easily generate vocabulary lists for your students? Well, say no more, VocabGrabber is here! Get your list in three easy steps!

1. Copy text from any document
2. Paste the copied text into the box
3. Grab your vocabulary words!

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Have you heard about this?

Google Squared is an experimental tool that takes a category (like US presidents, roller coasters, or digital cameras) and attempts to create a starter "square" of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web. You can modify your square by removing rows and columns you don't like--or by adding new rows and columns and having Google Squared attempt to fetch the relevant facts. Verify and correct the facts in your square by exploring the original sources and investigating other possible values. If you're happy with your square you can save it and come back to it later. Google Squared does the grunt work for you, making research fast and easy.

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