Google Alerts – the lazy research technique
At the RCC debate camp I mentioned briefly the ability to sign up for google alerts to do some of your research for you. I thought it might be helpful to explain how to do this in more detail. Here is a video explaining how to use google alerts generally: Some of my thoughts on [...]
Backfiles
I just want to remind everyone that the site has over 60 free evidence files from that past three years available on the evidence page for free for anyone to download. One of my goals for this site when I first created it was to house example evidence so new debaters and programs could get [...]
Resources updated
Thanks to Michael Miller for posting so many great resources here and on debate cooperative. I’ve updated the resources section of this site to include places to help you research for this year. If you come across any good sites please post them here. (If you are looking for Cuba resources click here). NOTE: I’m [...]
Finding articles
Google news provides an excellent service of ‘alerts.’ These are automatic emails to any email account based on certain keywords. Right after the Cuba topic was announced I setup an alert for Cuba and everyday Google sends me a email with major articles about Cuba. It’s great for debate because you can setup tons of [...]
Delicious.com Project – tag with Cuba-LD
Recently I have been enamored with the social bookmarking site Delicious. The way the site works is that you tag websites with keywords that are then saved as bookmarks in a database. To access your bookmarks you then go to the delicious web page (or various browser plugins – here is one for firefox). But [...]
Old Greater Horn of Africa Resources
Did not want to just lose the resource list for the Africa topic as I’m updating it for Cuba so I’m moving it from the page to a post here… 2007-2008 Resources for Evidence HS Research Guide – from The General’s Armory Blog on HS policy debate American Enterprise Institute Brookings Institution Cato Institute Center [...]
