Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Summary
What I took away from this activity is that there is a lot of ways to find information on a related subject or topic. It is almost overwhelming that you can have access to the level of information that is out there. It seemed like Google Books had the most useful information on my topic. There were a lot of current books written on the subject of Social Interaction with the Internet by Young Teens and how it affects them. The other two cites had some material which seemed to be more clinical and harder to sift through the content. The IT Pro definitely had the most search features, but not a lot of books popped up when I put in my topic. They all had their different ways to access the cite information and I think the Cannell Book Catalog was the easiest to cite from. I had to look harder to find some of the information from the other sites. This activity definitely took me on a journey looking for the information I was after. I feel more well rounded and have another bag of tools that I can use in my future research.
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Hi, Berinda:
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you found the assignment instructive. Being able to search full books like you can in IT Pro and GoogleBooks is very helpful and gets you specific results. Using Summit or Cannell to search means learning about subject headings and finding the relevant topics using that means.
Good work,
Andrea