What did you understand the most/least about today's lesson/independent practice?
11/1/10
Today we learned about the 3rd step in an Internet research strategy which is to choose a proper search tool. If you thinking that the worldwide web is a good place to research your topic, you need to be able to find a good, reliable sources. If you want to specifically find something, then you would use a meta- search engine or a regular search engine like dogpile.com or google.com. If you know very little information about your topic, then a subject guide would be very useful to start off with. If the regular search tools do not provide good information, you would have to use the specialty tools along with the regular one. By combining both types of search tools, you will have a thorough research on the topic.
11/3/10
On the day next day we learned about the 4th Internet research strategy: Translate your questions into an effective search query. The first step is to ask the question and then identify some keywords or phrases that best describe the topic. Then use those keywords to search in a search tool to find information about the keywords. The more keywords you use, the better and more accurate information you will receive to answer the question.
11/4/10
Today we learned about the 5th step in a Internet research strategy: Perform your search. All search engines provide advanced search forms that allow you to make your search more specific. You will fill out all the fields and click search to research specifically what you want. Some subject guides allow you to search keywords, but sometimes they let you search through several links to find something that benefits your research. Whichever one you use, the information you put in is going to give you accurate search results.
The information you put in is going to give you results, but sometimes not accurate results. It always depends.
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