Final

Part 1:

The topic that comes to mind when reading this article is “Teacher & student digital communication.” This comes to mind because it makes me wonder how, in a perfect world where all schools have the same technology and all students have access to the same devices, things would change if there were more focus on digital classrooms and correspondence. My personal feeling is that it could help increase graduation rates and grades since we are coming into a very digital based society.

One question I would ask is “How has digital communication been integrated into schools already?” Some of the keywords Id use to look for this would be: digital schooling, school e-mail, digital classrooms, digital grading, digital high-school.

Part 2:

Being someone who uses Google for everything, I used Google Scholar. I felt this tool would give me more access to the appropriate articles. I went to Google Scholar and used a Boolean search. That search was digital AND high school AND teachers.  This search didn’t pull up what I was hoping to find so I switched it to digital AND classrooms AND teaching. This search brought up many articles that were appealing to me.

Hill, Janet, and Michael Hannafin. "Teaching and Learning in Digital Envoronments: The Resugence of Resource-based Leaning." Educational Technology Research and Development. 49.3 (2001): 37-52. Web. 20 Mar. 2013. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02504914>.

Part 3:

The first thing I did to check the trustworthiness of this journal article was to look up the publisher. They are a company that publishes books and journals from all disciplines. The next thing I did was look up the authors. Janet Hill is on the board of directors at Duke University and has also taught math at the high school and college level since 1972. Michael Hannafin is the head of the Technology Enhanced Learning department at the University of Georgia. I’d say that each author has a great background to have written the article.

Part 4:

The biggest thing that this article talks about is how the digital age has caused us to change many aspects of our social and economical resources. Some of the biggest being both education and work. My concentration was more on the educational aspect but I also felt that because I chose to include teachers as well as the students.

Not only has the change in how we access media and other forms of information brought a big change in how educate the youth of our country but also how we find information and communicate. We have gone from a pen and paper kind of society to e-mail and Internet kind of society.

One of the other major things this article talks about is how many of the older generations, mainly the ones that were taught the traditional way with books and having to do manual research, have serious doubts about how well learning digitally is working. This article was written in 2001 was it was before a lot of the online classes were used by colleges and even high schools so there wasn’t much hard evidence or many studies being done.

I’m sure that if they were able to see some of the advances being made and were given the option to update this article they would. I can tell that the authors are trying to have a neutral standpoint and not push for or against traditional or digital education but I can also see that both parties are for digital education advances. I’m also for digital education so I found this article enlightening and easy to agree with.

Finding Information on the Open Web

I used Google. It’s my go-to for searching.

I used Boolean searching and it worked pretty well. I got some pretty good results.

The first thing I did when I came across a search result that I thought I might include I would first look at who wrote it, who published it, and how old it was. Though I found it hard to find things that were more current, most of the things I would find were between 2006 and 20010, I still think they are relevant to current time.

1.  Chai, Sangmi, Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Claudia Morrell, H. R. Rao, and Shambhu J. Upadhyaya. "Internet and Online Information Privacy: An Exploratory Study of Preteens and Early Teens." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 52.2 (2009): 167-82. Print.

I chose this information because the database that published it was credible and I found the article to be thorough.

2.  Christiana, Joe, and Richard Goettke. "Privacy and Online Social Networking Websites." Computer Science 199r Special Topics in Computer Science Computation and Society: Privacy and Technology. Harvard University, 14 May 2007. Web. 1 Aug.2012.<http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs199r/fp/RichJoe.pdf>.

I chose this article because Harvard University is credible and well known. I also chose this article because it was among a group of graduate papers that scored the highest in the class which tells me the students did their research appropriately.

3.  Flatow, Ira. "Protecting Your Privacy On Social Networking Sites." Audio blog post. NPR. PBS, 21 May 2010. Web. 1 Aug. 2012. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127037413>.

I chose this because it was a radio show on NPR. Though very much an opinion show it was still very informative and the host was well educated on the topic. The host also had very good intentions when the show was taking place. It related well to what I was looking for.

4.  "11 Tips for Social Networking Safety." Social Networking Safety. Microsoft, 24 July 2010. Web. 01 Aug. 2012. <http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/social-networking.aspx>.

The credibility here should be obvious to many. I personally am not a fan of Microsoft but it is more of product reliability than how knowledgeable they are. They are all about computers and tech advancement so I feel they are a good source to use. I also feel the intent of the article is a good fit for what I’m researching.

Focusing on Search Engines and Web Sites

The search tool that I tried that I wasn't familiar with was Bing.
It has a lot of the same features as Google.
There is a general web search tab, which is also the main page  when you first go to the site. There is an image search tab that lets you search just images. There is a video search tab that lets you search just videos. Some of the other tabs are maps for locating places or getting directions, news for getting current events, and then a more tab. When you click on the more tab it gives you much more options for focusing your search like music, math, finance, dictionary, weather, etc. When you do a search it will give you a list of related searches and it also gives you the option to link your searches with Facebook.

The metasearch tool that I used was Mamma.
It looks very simple. It only has a few tabs for search focusing; web, news, image, twitter, and jobs. After doing a search it gives a list at the side with search suggestions. This site is very simple without all the "frills" like Bing has.

The subject directory that I used was About.com. I have seen the site a couple times but had never used it. The homepage has a lot going on. It gives editors picks, the search bar, an explore tab and a browse categories tab. After doing a search it gives you the basic list of results but they are all in the About.com library. If you scroll all the way to the bottom it has a list of related searches.

Database Feature and Searching Techniques

Part 1:

Lyric change and censorship

Current economy and Great Depression

Earnings for college graduate and high school graduate

vegetarian diet or meat-based diet

natural medicine or traditional medicine

Part 2:

My topic: Personal Privacy

My research question: What things associated with personal privacy are most concerning to people?

Boolean search: personal privacy and personal concerns

Digging Into Databases & Books Summary

In this section I learned a couple key things. The first was that there was a database of technical books called ITPro. It was multi function and could benefit a student, professional, or someone just curious about things. 

Another thing I learned was from the assignment instructions. I knew about Summit but I didn't I know that they can send books to Clark for a student. This will be very helpful in future classes.

This assignment surely opened my eyes to several other resources and I think that they will all be very helpful to me at some point. As far as this class goes I will probably use a combination of Summit and Google Scholar (if allowed). 

I was surprised that Google Scholar wasn't included in this assignement. I learned about this database previously and found it very helpful when writing my research paper for English 102. 

Google Books Search

In my Google Books search I looked up  Privacy, Personal Privacy, Violation of Privacy like I did in the Cannell Library and Summit searches. 
The book that looked most interesting to me was:
Pennock, J. Roland, and John W. Chapman. Privacy & Personality. New Brunswick (U.S.A.): Aldine Transaction, 2007. Print.
Being pretty familiar with Google Books already, I use it to look for new books to read and buy eBooks there regularly, I knew to look at theAbout This Book link and then scroll to the bottom to find a little info on the author(s). This helps me know if the authors are credible by giving background information like their education and experience. 

IT Pro Search

I found this site interesting because it was for technical books. Though I did search for Home PC like the assignment said to, I also searched for a few things of my own. I found this site useful because I'm a computer technology major.
I liked that under advanced search I could search the full text, author, ISBN, or the notes.