1. a. Pollution
b. Factory and businesses releasing pollution into the environment
c. Water contamination in the Yangtze river.
d. The toxicity level of fish in the Yangtze river
e. Human risks from consumption of fish.
2.
a. What kind of contaminants are in the Yangtze River?
b. What type of animal life is in the Yangtze River?
It was much easier to start with pollution and work my way down. I ended up with the topic of Water contamination in the Yangtze River. I could only imagine it would have probably be very difficult if i had started with the broad idea of pollution and used it as my center topic. Thanks once again Ms. Soules for going over this with me.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Week 2: Research Log entry
a. Delicious is basically an online tool in which you can save your bookmarks on an internet site. It allows you to access the same bookmarks when you use different computers.
b.It becomes less of a hassle when you can access all your bookmarks from different computers. This tool lets you build a big list of bookmarks which can be viewed by other people. You can also view other people's bookmarks which might bring you to a site your type of interest.
c.I don't think i like to use this tool. It seems like a great idea, but i do not like the fact that a website will know what sites you bookmarked. I like to keep things private.
b.It becomes less of a hassle when you can access all your bookmarks from different computers. This tool lets you build a big list of bookmarks which can be viewed by other people. You can also view other people's bookmarks which might bring you to a site your type of interest.
c.I don't think i like to use this tool. It seems like a great idea, but i do not like the fact that a website will know what sites you bookmarked. I like to keep things private.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Week 2: Research Log Entry
1.My question was "What was Frederick Douglass' childhood like?"
2. I began with the terms "Frederick Douglass" "childhood" and "slavery"
3. I used the search engines: ask.com, google, and yahoo.
4a.I used Frederick Douglass, Childhood, and slavery. I varied the results by omitting slavery on certain searches.
4b. I tried using quotation marks to narrow down the searches and to keep important terms together. I also tried the nesting technique to get more hits that would be more relevant to my question.
5a. I first looked at the website's URL and short text under each hit. By looking at the URL, i can usually determine what kind of site it is and whether or not it would be relevant to my topic. I also paid attention to the link's title.
5b. All the search engines got hits about my topic, however, they all did not get the same exact hits. It was helpful that all the search engines i used had some sort of suggestion. This proved essential as it would check my spelling and show similar useful topics. It seemed that Yahoo has the highest hits while Google and ask.com trailed it in respective order.
5c. I think the search engine did its search on the basis of who their target age group was. Yahoo normally caters to young adults and teens as they have games and fun things on their normal website. I recall seeing quite a lot of Sparknotes.com hits on the yahoo search engine which would be a result of catering to young adults who usually rely on summary sites. With this in mind, naturally assumed that ask.com and google were targeting an older age group.
6. One question i had was if there were more boolean operators than the basic quotes, and not, and etc.
2. I began with the terms "Frederick Douglass" "childhood" and "slavery"
3. I used the search engines: ask.com, google, and yahoo.
4a.I used Frederick Douglass, Childhood, and slavery. I varied the results by omitting slavery on certain searches.
4b. I tried using quotation marks to narrow down the searches and to keep important terms together. I also tried the nesting technique to get more hits that would be more relevant to my question.
5a. I first looked at the website's URL and short text under each hit. By looking at the URL, i can usually determine what kind of site it is and whether or not it would be relevant to my topic. I also paid attention to the link's title.
5b. All the search engines got hits about my topic, however, they all did not get the same exact hits. It was helpful that all the search engines i used had some sort of suggestion. This proved essential as it would check my spelling and show similar useful topics. It seemed that Yahoo has the highest hits while Google and ask.com trailed it in respective order.
5c. I think the search engine did its search on the basis of who their target age group was. Yahoo normally caters to young adults and teens as they have games and fun things on their normal website. I recall seeing quite a lot of Sparknotes.com hits on the yahoo search engine which would be a result of catering to young adults who usually rely on summary sites. With this in mind, naturally assumed that ask.com and google were targeting an older age group.
6. One question i had was if there were more boolean operators than the basic quotes, and not, and etc.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Research Log Activity and Entry
1. I was trying to answer the question "What are the diseases that the Europeans gave to the American Indians?".
2. I used the GOOGLE search engine.
3. I used the search term "European diseases AND Native Americans" and "Europeans diseases OR Native Americans"
4. I received 1,200,000 hits when i used AND in my search and i received 14,200,000 hits when i used OR. Using OR created more hits in my search. I think this was because OR included either search terms while AND only allowed hits which had both terms used.
5.I mainly used Authority and Objectivity when i evaluated my results.
6. On one site, i determined that the value of the site was not good because the person did not have much Authority as he based most of his article on an unreliable source. There was also no mention of a specific author of the information and there was no way to contact the author.
7. The main question i had was whether or not a source of an article was credible.
2. I used the GOOGLE search engine.
3. I used the search term "European diseases AND Native Americans" and "Europeans diseases OR Native Americans"
4. I received 1,200,000 hits when i used AND in my search and i received 14,200,000 hits when i used OR. Using OR created more hits in my search. I think this was because OR included either search terms while AND only allowed hits which had both terms used.
5.I mainly used Authority and Objectivity when i evaluated my results.
6. On one site, i determined that the value of the site was not good because the person did not have much Authority as he based most of his article on an unreliable source. There was also no mention of a specific author of the information and there was no way to contact the author.
7. The main question i had was whether or not a source of an article was credible.
1. Reseach Log Entry
1.)
a. I already knew about the C.A.R.D.I.O. concept in evaluating information resources.
b. The AND, OR, and NOT were new concepts to me.
2.) If I had to use the web to conduct research, I would need to consider the Authority, Currency, and Objectivity of the material.
a. I already knew about the C.A.R.D.I.O. concept in evaluating information resources.
b. The AND, OR, and NOT were new concepts to me.
2.) If I had to use the web to conduct research, I would need to consider the Authority, Currency, and Objectivity of the material.
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