Google Alerts<\/a>.\u00a0 I've been experimenting with setting up the searches and verifying the results.\u00a0 It's quite easy to begin using immediately.\u00a0 So I suggest that at the beginning of the course when discussing the syllabus, instructors take about 5 minutes to have the students set up a Google Alert on their mobile devices for each possible research topic they may wish to explore.<\/p>\nFor Google Alerts, there is very little to fill out and you can specify how often to receive notification that matches to your search have been found:<\/p>\nGoogle Alerts is fast and simple to use.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBy having the students set up weekly alerts and seeing that they can limit their searches instead of being overwhelmed with a million hits, it is hoped that at least once a week (or however often they have set up the alert), they will be thinking about their research project throughout the semester rather than at the last minute.\u00a0 Happy searching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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