Electronic Research: CSUN S Oviatt Library Online

Library Electronic Research: CSUN’s Oviatt Library Online

1: Save this document to the Library folder you created on your desktop 2: Keep this document open in one window. 3: Open the Oviatt Library Home page in your browser following one of the steps below.

A: Use your browser to go to the CSUN home page, www.csun.edu, then click on the library link…or…

Notes: you may type e-notes here

Notes: e-notes

B: Enter the library’s URL directly into your browser.

http://library.csun.edu/

4: From the Library Home Page, go through the following steps.

Click on Databases A-Z

Your next screen should look like this.

Click the letter E, or… Notes: …scroll down until you come to Education Resources Information Center. Two of the databases you should become familiar with are EBSCOHost and ERIC. For this activity we will use ERIC from CSA. Click on this link to continue.

Notes:

At this point, you must sign in to the library with your CSUN ID code (xxx12345) and your password.

Click submit after you type in your access code.

Help your neighbor

Notes: A: Enter differentiated instruction into the first box.

B: Note that you are still searching in the ERIC database.

C: Before you click search, narrow your results to those articles that are available online.

D: When you have set these parameters, then click search.

Notes:

Look at the tabs for the results from your search. Fill out the table below for the number of hits that “differentiated instruction” earned in each category.

Published Scholars Web Sites Works

All Publication Journals Peer-Reviewed Conferences Books Types Journals

Enter the title of the first article here. Use the browsers back arrow to return to the advanced search page, or scroll down to find the same information.

This time, you will create a Boolean Search, with three (and) criteria.

A: Enter differentiated instruction into the first box, taxonomy into the second and intelligences into the third.

B: Note that you are still searching in the ERIC database.

C: Be sure you are still restricted to articles that are available online. D: When you have reset these parameters, then click search again.

Notes:

Your results should be similar to this screenshot. Click on the title or View Record to get the full abstract.

Highlight and copy the text of the article’s abstract. Paste the text of the article’s abstract here.

Paste text of abstract here

Click on Full-Text to retrieve article.

notes: Take a screen shot of the top of page 2 from the PDF, Table of Contents and insert it here.

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If you would like to save a copy of this article in your Library Folder, click on the PDF save icon, not the browser save menu. Other Resources Courtesy of Dr. Herr Cal State University Northridge

Newspapers and News Magazines online. http://www.csun.edu/science/ref/news/general_news.html

Encyclopedias http://www.csun.edu/science/ref/reference/encylclopedias.html

Links to Specialized Resources http://www.csun.edu/science/courses/514/assignments/ref.html#Categories