Starfish Search http://starfish.innovatievooronderwijs.nl
1 - Use # before the query (e.g. #TPACK) and use @ to search names (like @John…).
Starfish will immediately give you options to choose. Text search is also possible. Note
that you only can use one word at the time.
2 – Press Search
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Searching in Starfish leads to a structured information about technological, pedagogical, and
content knowledge on the query. As a result a list of Good practices, Persons, Projects,
Events and Information about a topics that are connected (tagged) in a network is given.
1- Basic general information about the tag (#clickers) (Glossary). In the case that nobody
has written it yet in Starfish you will only get the list of connected information (2)
2- Starfish pages that are connected to this tag
• Good practices (description of an experience in HE teaching practice where clickers
were used)
• Projects (innovation projects about how to use clickers in teaching and learning)
• Events (meetings or workshops related to use of clickers in teaching)
• Glossaries (close related basic concepts)
• Information (any information that is not specifically a good practice, project, event or
person)
• People (persons who are connected to this issue and are willing to share their
knowledge/experience about it on Starfish)
3- List of Good practices about this query
4- You can sort the search result and chose Most recent published or Alphabetical order. As
default most recent results will be shown above.
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When you login on Starfish your search can be more specifically related to your community.
You will thus narrow the search only to information that is interesting to your community
and find the information that is not public but only shared within your community.
1- Select your community to search (as default you can Search in Public domain).
2- See the difference in the result in comparison to the search result on the previous image.
3- Press More to read general information.
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Basic information (Glossary)
1 – Aliases: you can find the information about clickers also if you use any other of listed
aliases of the tag #clickers.
2 – according to TPACK classified tags that are connected to query (in this case #clickers).
3 – Specific information that is linked to this Glossary by the author.
4 – This Search goes to the start page.
5 – This Search goes to list of connected information (specific search)
6 – See the goal of this feature on the example FlippedClassroom (next image).
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Tag Flipped Classroom - glossary
Click Search to see the difference in two Search options
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