1. Michelle Schira Hagerman
Michigan State University

2. A bit about me…
 Teacher
 Researcher
 Online reading & literacies
 Instructional methods to support online
literacies
 Adolescent cognition and literacies
 Educational technologies

3. My current research
 How do 9th graders synthesize
multiple, multi-modal Internet texts?
 Does Online Synthesis Instruction have
an impact on reading and/or writing?
 Design:
 Two treatment conditions, random
assignment
 Pre-test, post-test
 Longitudinal

4. Sources of data
 Standardized reading test
 Clickstream
 Video & Audio
 Notes
 Written Texts
 Researcher Notes
 Informal interviews

5. How do you synthesize what you
research online?
 You are a nuclear physicist. You have been
asked by the government of a developing
nation to help them assess the risks and
benefits of nuclear energy.
Are the benefits worth the risks?
Using multiple, trustworthy Internet texts of
any type (e.g., texts, videos, images, graphs
etc.) read about the pros and cons of nuclear
energy and then, using what you have
learned, write a persuasive argument for the
government officials.

6. What strategies did you use?
 Purpose?
 Pre-existing knowledge?
 Search terms?
 Source selection?
 Trustworthy?
 Type?

7. What strategies did you use?
 Identify important information?
 Compare with what you knew?
 Connect with something you read?
 Continually update your understanding?

8. What tools did you use?
 Library data bases?
 Google?
 Google Scholar?
 YouTube?
 Wikipedia?
 Other search tools?
 Instagrok.com
 Oolone.com
 Did you take notes?
 Diigo.com

9. How do you keep track of your
research?
 Medeley
 Zotero
 Endnote
 Evernote