Better Research with Google Scholar

Website Wednesday

Let's face it we don't want students just "googling" for research. Teachers expect quality resources. So where to look? Try Google Scholar. 

Google Scholar is a free search engine that searches scholarly literature providing the user with physical and digital copies of various articles from books, universities, web sites, academic publishers, and many more.  It's like researching through your school library but online. 

Google Scholar offers a variety of ways to search for an article such as author, title, or date. Users who log in can even create their own library to help them save and keep track of articles they use for their research. 

Example Search Result and Features:

1. Search Result will let you know how many times this article has been cited in other publications or web sites.
2. A link is provided sending a searcher to other related articles to view.
3. The cite link will help the searcher properly cite the source.
4. If you are a logged in user, you can save this search result to your library.
5. Many of the search results will include the .pdf version of the article. 

Due By...

Tech Tip Tuesday

How to Put an Expiration Date on Google Files

After a due date is set, you can restrict access to certain files once a project is completed by setting an expiration date. 

1. Open a file in Drive.

2. Click the share button.     

3.  Share the File with others.

4. Click Advanced.

 

5.  Hover your mouse over the person's name that  you shared the file with and choose set expiration date.

6. Change the access expires date.

7. Click Saves Changes.

8. Click Done.

Instructional Technology October Newsletter

The Instructional Technology October Newsletter is here!

Click on the link to check out some great tech integration tips, apps, websites and more!!

OCTOBER NEWSLETTER

In This Issue . . .

>> Digital Citizenship Week and the PSA Challenge 2016

>> October and November/December Trainings

>> NEW SAISD Tech Badge Program

>> Tech Tips, Awesome Apps and Going Google

Read All About It - Google Newspapers

Google has done it again. Google News Archive (http://news.google.com/newspapers) provides hundreds of newspapers from different countries and different centuries. I read one newspaper from 1738 and another from 1980 - Amazing! I love that technology can preserve these resources for us to access and use.

A special that you to the technology specialists at Brenham ISD - #BISDWired. I found this resource on their blog - http://brenhamtechdaily.blogspot.com. If you haven't taken a look at it, you should. You won't be disappointed.

To Share or Unshare? That is the question.

Tech Tip Tuesday

It's more a question of how do I stop sharing a link, a file or folder if that person no longer needs access?

To turn off the share link in Google Drive or in any of the Google Apps, click the share button. Click Get Shareable link.

From the drop-down menu on the "Share with others" window, choose OFF - only specific people can access. 

To stop sharing a file with an individual in Google Drive or in any of the Google Apps, click the share button. In the "Share with others" window, click on Advanced in the bottom-right corner. In the list of "Who has Access", click the X beside the people who no longer needs access to the file. 

Other Available Resource: In Google Docs, to access "Share A Document" tutorial which includes how to stop sharing a link and document, please download the extension "Training for Google Apps" from the Chrome Web Store. The same tutorial video can be found in Sheets, Slides, and Forms using this extension.