Serendipity35

I was working with some high school teachers today on curriculum for teaching research. I'm trying to push the idea that not all research leads to research "papers", but we know in schools it frequently does lead that way.

Anyway, this school teaches MLA and APA (because of their science focus) and they were looking for good short guides for kids to have at hand for quick reference.
I started looking at them and wondering about some of the more 2.0 resources and how they might be cited.

How would you cite a Google book?

If you don't use those now, you might want to look at a few samples. Here's a "limited view" version of Hemingway: The 1930's and a "snippet view" of Hemingway: A Collection of Critical Essays. The latter type is not really very useful for research, other than getting a look at a few quotes. Does that mean your students would not use it? Of course not!

The site also includes some interesting ideas for teaching literature, like the maps of places and the links to scholarly writing via Google Scholar.

I was taught that Shakespeare's farewell speech to the theater was that last speech by Prospero in The Tempest. I just started browsing W.S. in Google Books and found a limited view of Michael Wood's Shakespeare. I flipped through the pages and came across on page 334 the theory that it was a speech by Theseus in Two Noble Kinsmen. Whaddya know. Do I need to use the book citation form and pretend that I actually looked at the paper version of the book, or should I be honest and say I looked at that page online? Now, how to cite that Google Book version...

I didn't find any help at the Google Books site itself. Some searching turned up several suggestions, though I couldn't find something definitive. Perhaps one of you out there can post a definitive answer or link to a good Web 2.0 citation site.

For example, I found some information for "e-books" at a University of Maryland library website. They are referring to places online like Project Gutenberg , Bartleby.com and the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library but I suppose Google Books fits there too.

That's just one example. What about using a Flickr photo?

There are images there that people have given a Creative Commons license so that you can use it, download it, adapt it. The photo of The Globe theater I used in this post is from the collection of ahisgett (Tony Hisgett). He gave it a Creative Commons 2.0 license which means I can share (copy, distribute and transmit the work) and remix (adapt the work) the photo as long as I attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor but not in any way that suggests that they endorse me or my use of the work. Still, I see no obvious way to cite that photo for any research use. If the information is there, it's not in a place that students will easily find it.

How do you teach your students to cite various 2.0 resources?

You should give Google Books a try.