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Researching your Topic

Break your Topic into Subtopics: Capital Punishment (topic) > Racism (subtopic) = Are more minorities subjected to capital punishment?

Use Keywords: Think of the key words that describe what you are researching and the kind of information you need. Link your keywords with AND to narrow your subject.

For example, "racial profiling" AND statistics AND "United States." 

Try Different Search Terms: Remember to think of different ways to search for your topic. Different authors will use different words for the same thing: e.g. Capital Punishment or Death PenaltyGlobal Warming or Climate Change. Rephrase your search if you don't find many results on your subject.

 

Research Resources

To find journal, newspaper and magazine articles on your topic, use the library databases. Several databases that are helpful for social issue topics are listed below.

Student Resources In Context Web image

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 U.S. History In Context Web image

Useful websites for researching social issues:

 

 

Multimodal Presentation Tools

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Go to 'Student Web Tools' to view FREE presentation options.

Steps to the final product:
  1. Research
  2. Outline/Storyboard (Storyboard Template)/Photo Essay Planning Guide
  3. Script
  4. Produce

 

Find a book

Search our library catalog: 

West Book Catalog

We have eBooks available through Gale Virtual Reference Library:

 

 

 

IMC Video/Recording Equipment 

  • Green Screen & lighting kit
  • Script Teleprompter
  • iPad with DoInk App
  • Tripods with cell phone/iPad attachments
  • 30 USB Headsets with mics
  • 2 USB microphones

 

 

Copyright-friendly images & music

Copyright-friendly images:

Pics4Learning: Offers a safe, free image library for education.

flickrCC: Good place to start when looking for Creative Commons images.

Photos for Class

Pixaby: Free image and video database.

Royalty Free music:

Soundzabound

Freeplay Music

Jamendo

Royalty Free Music