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Research from within a document

The keen-eyed will have noted that a right-click on text in Microsoft Word can launch a side-panel containing definitions; Wiki pages and information. The feature appears in Google Drive (formerly Google Docs),

A right-click on a word in a Google document show this in much the same way:

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Tools/edusearch

searching for somewhere to search, try the tools on www.scoop.it/edu-search

Teachers may also find this document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KdxyaC9_7T5zXYhij2CK3s5EyRT-Sq3NbbaWrwSCXzk/edit on conducting research on the internet useful; it offers advice on task design, some websites for lesson ideas, and some ideas for embedding research into high quality pedagogy.