Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Sizing Your Topic

  1. A- the environment
    B- deforestation
    C-lost habitat
    D-endangered species
    E-forest life cycle
  2. A- What would happen if all the habitats are being destoryed continuously in the future?
    B- What are the benifits and the consequences of humans destorying other animal homes?

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Delicious

  1. A. delicious is a web site that allows you to bookmark any websites that you want and then later access the site later on any computer you want.
    B. some of the advantages of this tool is that you can save any website you want and later access the site again on any other computer you want.
    C. i would not want to use this web tool, simply because it is a long and painful process to save the site and then later to bring up the site you had saved earlier.

Unite 1 part 2

  1. what is nvidia most famous for???
  2. graphic card, computer screen, motherboards
  3. google, yahoo, aol
  4. A. famous, graphic card, motherboards, nvidia
    B. nivida and famous and motherboards
    nivida or graphic card or famous
  5. i compared the results from all there sites together, and how ever many sites that i got the same. after i compared the results to find how many sites were a good sources of information.
    With the three search engines i used many of the results were scattered in different location on the site.
    I believed that the search engines behaved the way they did because some of the sites pay the search company more money to be at the top of the results.
  6. How long has this company been in business?
    what are its standards for its products?

Monday, January 12, 2009

the following questions

  1. i tried to answer all the question to the best of my abilities and to my best understandings.
  2. i used Google.com, and yahoo.com for my search engine
  3. the search terms i used were: commercialism, philosophy, and sponsor.
    google-224000 results
    yahoo-64200 results
  4. for my evaluation question, i used all the question that was provided on the page.
    i can say that google has more result over yahoo, but both are search engines that are controled by the highest paying sites are the first to be showned.
  5. i have thought of another question. how many sites related to the research subject has more than three of the following teams?(the six new/old teams learned this week)

Unit 1, Part 1 Assignment Concepts for Effective Searching

1-11-09
  • Research Log Entry
  1. there were a few cancepts that i knew were
    and, or
    currency, authority, information type, objectivity

    the ones that i did not know are
    relevance, depth,
  2. with a web strategy, i would be considering quality, context, and commercialism
  • Research log activity and entry
  1. commercialism
  2. commercialism philosophy sponsor
  3. http://philosophy.suite101.com/article.cfm/commercialism_is_a_holiday_tradition
    presenter is selling a philosophy of how a commercialism was started.
    this article does not have a sponsor.
    it was not necessary to pay to get the article.
    no identification was needed to proceed.