Tech2Go

I showed the previous post to a colleague and they were distracted from the assessment discussion because they were so interested in Google Scholar. I suspect that might be indicative of others - so here’s a quick plug for this great search tool.

Here’s an excerpt from Google’s own answer to, “What is Google Scholar?”

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Google Scholar has gives all of us access to the kinds of services that used to be reserved for subscription databases. Not all results found are available as full-text articles, but some are. It makes a great first-step to get abstracts and citations that can be used with other resources at your disposal (Pennsylvania schools have PowerLibrary for example). It’s a great way to get your students to interact with more scholarly content on the free internet! Comes in handy for your graduate classes too…