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Question #1
http://lii.org
From the Librarians' Internet Index Homepage
Look for the search box toward the top of the page.
Enter a subject of your choice.
Look at two or three websites about your topic.
Read the website descriptions.
Choose what you believe to be one quality website on your topic.
What is your topic?
What is the exact title of one of the websites you found about your
topic in the Librarians' Internet Index?
What is the exact address of the site?
Who or what organization is responsible for the site?
Tell me briefly (one sentence) something you learned about your topic
from this website.
Hint: read the Librarians' Internet Index website description.
Question #2
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
Using the Merriam-Webster Dictionary,
Look for the definition of thesaurus
What is a thesaurus?
Next, using the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
Look up a word of your choice.
What word did you look up?
What different options did the thesaurus give for your word?
Question #3
From the De Anza Library home page
http://www.deanza.fhda.edu/library/
Select the category "Article Databases"
Select Academic Search Premier
Be sure the Full Text box is checked.
In the white search box, enter:
a topic of your choice
you may need to enter two words to better define your topic
Open one or two of the articles, briefly review each.
Select an article you believe to be a good one for your
topic choice.
What is the title of your article?
What is the date of your article?
Who wrote the article?
What periodical is the article published in?
Question #4
From the De Anza Library home page
http://www.deanza.fhda.edu/library/
Look for the picture of a man reading a newspaper.
Find the link Proquest Newspaper Databases
Find a current newspaper article about the 2008 presidential election.
What newspaper printed the article you found?
What is the date?
What is the title of the article?
Briefly tell me what the article is about.
Question #5, Evaluation of Web Sites
Go to this site.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/dinosaurs//info/everything/why.html
What is the title of the site?
What is the title of the paper?
Is this a scholarly paper?
Hint: go to the last page, are there references cited? From where?
Who or what organization is responsible for the information?
Do you think it is a credible site? Why?
Question #6
Go to the Google website.
http://www.google.com
Enter the term gaspeite
Instead of a web search image search
Image search
What color is gaspeite?
What is gaspeite?
Question #7 - the last question!
Right here on our class website there is a practice quiz. Take
the practice quiz and tell me how you do. Did you get all the
questions correct? Did you learn one new piece of information
from the quiz? I hope you did and have good luck in
your future Internet research adventures.
Questions? Contact your instructor:
yeckley@rocketmail.com
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