Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Google vs. Nettrekker

Google:
-I felt that Google was a little worse than Nettrekker because Google has info of everything that is anything.
-My keywords were ineffective on Google because they were too broad. I came up with a lot of random things that did not help my topic.
-I felt that if I used a full sentence or a lot more specific detail, I might be able to get something useful out of it.

Nettreker:
-In Nettrekker, my keywords were a little too specific. I got a but more helpful info out of it than Google, but it still didn't come up with anything that was my topic.
-My keywords came up with things that were close to my topic, but were not my topic. If I used a keyword that was less specific, I think I would come up with better topics.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Opposing Viewpoints


Opposing Viewpoints
Points of View
Ebsco
Search - ease of use
A little hard.
Also a little hard.
Easier.
Results - relevance and usefulness
Nothing that I was looking for.
Nothing that I was looking for.
Hard to find main topic.
Saving documents
Easy, but hard to see where it was saved.
Easy, but hard to see where it was saved.
Same thing.
Citations
Easy.
Easy.
Slightly less easy.
Other features (you define and describe 3-5 others)



Feature #1
A lot of keywords available
Quick search
Hard to get to actual search database
Feature #2
Quick search
A lot of options
Quick search
Feature #3
A lot of options
Popular
Options
Feature #4
Popular
Optional lists/choices
A lot of keywords available

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Del.i.cious

My Del.i.cious account did not work, it would not let me log in, so I am going to post them here.

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Key words

-Exercise
-good
-bad
-too much
-heart
-healthy
Can too much exercise be bad?

What kind of exercise can be bad? How much exercise is needed to be good? How much exercise is needed to be bad? What kind of exercise is good?

I can look up an exercise to found out if exercise could be good or bad, and what kind of exercise could be good or bad.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Essential question

Question 1: Can too much exercise be bad?

-How does exercise help your body?
-Which exercises could be bad for you?
-What if exercise was always bad?
-Should exercise be bad?
-Why is exercise good for you?

Question 2: How does football improve your mood & self-esteem?

-Which sports improve your mood?
-How does exercising keep you happy?
-What does football do to your brain (physically, mentally, and emotionally)?
-Should football improve your mood & self-esteem?
-Why does football improve your mood & self-esteem?

Research Question

I am going to discuss if too much exercise is bad for you. I am writing this for the rest of this class. I am interested in this topic because I want to know if exercise could potentially be bad. If you get past the main topic of exercise, you have probably gotten past the limitation

Monday, October 20, 2008

Questions

Question 1: Can too much exercise be bad?

-How does exercise help your body?
-Which exercises could be bad for you?
-What if exercise was always bad?
-Should exercise be bad?
-Why is exercise good for you?

Question 2: How does football improve your mood & self-esteem?

-Which sports improve your mood?
-How does exercising keep you happy?
-What does football do to your brain (physically, mentally, and emotionally)?
-Should football improve your mood & self-esteem?
-Why does football improve your mood & self-esteem?

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Zombie Attack?

This Zombie attack is invalid because there are many different things posted apart of that that are very fake. The Zombie Survival Guide is fake because it does not post any real evidence of zombies.

But, I do think that the virus called Solanum is real because it has been proven that it was inside the person's brain. But the zombies did not actually appear or hurt other people.

Scorcher6

This movie does not seem valid because there has not even been a Scorcher 1. Now they are trying to pass of a Scorcher 6. I also looked it up on Google, Wikipedia, and a lot of other sources, and none came up. Rotten Tomato also had nothing on it about Scorcher 6.

Tree Octopi

This site is obviously fake because no one has ever heard of a tree octopus. Also, does Sasquatch exist? NO. It has been scientifically proven that Sasquatch is a fictional character only in stories.

Text:
Why are Sasquatch allowed to gather Tree Octopuses if the octopuses are endangered?

No one allows a Sasquatch to do anything; they just do it.

Sasquatch have been gathering Tree Octopuses since before Humans settled in their habitats. They form a symbiotic relationship. We value our limbs and don't question this.


From: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/faq.html

I also Googled: Octopus paxarbolis. Which is the "scientific" word given to the octopi. I looked it up in Wikipedia and fund that it was a fictitious creature from an internet hoax made by Lyle Zapato in 1998.