Final text

Hello everyone!

This is my final blog, my assignment is: I WILL BE DEMONSTRATING MANY OF THE RESEARCH TECHNIQUES I LEARNED IN CTEC 115 CLASS.

My topic for this week is: “Does the expansion of e. book options impact how much people read?”

First of all, I need defining my purpose/goal. This step includes defining the initial topic and starting a keyword list. I find out that what is the most important in my topic. I think it is “eBook” and “reader”

Second, I should to use the Boolean operators OR, AND, and NOT.

These search results demonstrate that I use:

OR if I want to retrieve either this term or that term (Of course, I can OR more than two terms together) OR always broaden a search.

AND when I want to combine search terms, AND always narrow a search.

NOT narrow search and retrieve records that do not contain the term following it.

I can use the information for Cannel Library, go to Clark College Library, and click at Find, and click at Articles and Databases. Find two tools for searching:

·         Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)

·         Proquest.

With EBSCO, if I type “electronic book” AND “reader” I have 1926 results.

                        If I type “electronic book” OR “reader” I have 144,112 results

                        If I type “electronic book” NOT “reader” I have 8,281 results.

With Proquest, if I type “electronic book” AND “reader” I get 76027 results

                        If I type “electronic book” OR “reader” I get 3114509 results

                        If I type “electronic book” NOT “reader” I get 387666 results

And now, I find my topic “Electronic book offers visionary tale” with a citation. Proquest tool will provide for me a citation, if I click at cite on the top of tool.

Works Cited

"Electronic Book Offers Visionary Tale." The Futurist 33.7 (1999): 48-. ProQuest Family Health; ProQuest Research Library. Web. 10 Dec. 2012.

            The level of trustworthiness of an article is evaluated by A.S.P.E.C.T. system.
            A: Authority; S: Sources; P: Purpose; E: Evenness; C: Coverage; T: Timeliness.
            Now, I find out for the topic “The e-book, the e-reader, and the future of reading: As stone tablets gave way the codex, the future of reading is digital- but will the e-reader and the e-book change the nature of how we read?” with deep web.
            I believe in this article because it has enough conditions for A.S.P.E.C.T. such as:
            Author: Shaer, Matthew; Source: Newspaper; Evenness: opinions; Coverage: General Interest Periodicals – United States. Time: Last update: 2012-09-27.
            This Article points out some main ideas about good or bad for the reader when they use e.book.

As computer technology has improved, so has the e-reader, which is now seen as a salable, desirable accessory.

Forrester Research, a market research firm, recently raised its 2010 forecast for US e-reader sales from 2 million to 3 million units. According to the Codex Group, a firm that analyzes the publishing industry, 13 percent of American adults who've purchased at least one book in the past year own an e-reader, or plan to own one within the next year.

Dennis Loy Johnson, the publisher of Melville House, a Brooklyn-based press. "I can envision a future where everyone has a Kindle. But I don't think that means the eradication of books."

Eventually, my opinion is: people can go back to the old technology; they should to go to the new technology.
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CREATE A WEB PAGE

Hello everyone!
Activity for the last week is: Create a Web page.
I think this activity is interesting for everyone who has never lived online. You need some help from your instructor or some guys who have known about Create a Web page; virtually, everything you ask or expect your result to do have multiple steps. And most likely, each of those steps has multiple steps.
 The most important is to do exactly something that you type, such as: caps lock or ordinary letters. You also need one website that had before. In my class, I was provided this website from my instructor: http://twoplayfulotters.com/student/abullock12.html.
 Besides that, you need to have Notepad on your computer, and download Filezila to your desktop. Of course, you need a host name, user name, password, in order to log in this software.  I am holding my hand 7 pages for study guide.
The last work is uploading your file, and opening it from web browser. That is wonderful like a magic.
 This is my result: http://www.twoplayfulotters.com/student/SINH7.html
 Good luck to you.

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Evaluating Information

           

            Ladies and Gentlemen

            Welcome to my CTEC blog, my name is Sinh. The topic of this week is

            My mission is pointing out that "Which type of web site/top-level domain might be better for my topic"

            First of all, I want to share some information about "A generic top-level domain (gTLD) is one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is visible to Internet users as the suffix at the end of a domain name." It help everyone limit the information which people needed for their goals when they use the Internet.

            For example:

            .aero : the air transport industry.

            .com: commercial organizations, but unrestricted

            .edu: U.S. post-secondary educational establishments

            .gov: U.S. government entities at the federal, state, and local levels

            .net: originally for network infrastructures, now unrestricted.

            Some example:

            My major is Medical Radiology; therefore find out medical information is necessary for me. Today, I recommend to you some website about medical area.

            1. http://med.studentsforlife.org

            Medical Students for Life of America (MedSFLA) is the medical outreach organization of Students for Life of America (SFLA), which began as American Collegians for Life (ACL) in 1988. Since 2006, ACL changed its name to SFLA and helped start over 450 new student pro-life organizations and revamp hundreds of existing student pro-life groups. SFLA has trained over 7,000 pro-lifers at its national conference, weekend training seminars, and one-on-one campus training. MedSFL Awas launched in April 2010 and works alongside the professional staff at the SFLA national headquarters in Mananas, VA.

            For me, this website provide to me many article, the most important is thia website has enough condition for ASPECT.

            2. http://www.medicinenet.com

            Medicine Net.com is an online, healthcare media publishing company. It provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers via its robust, user-friendly, interactive website.
            Since 1996, Medicine Net.com has had a highly accomplished, uniquely experienced team of qualified executives in the fields of medicine, healthcare, Internet technology, and business to bring you the most comprehensive, sought-after healthcare information anywhere. Nationally recognized, doctor-produced by a network of more than 70 U.S. board-certified physicians, Medicine Net.com is the trusted source for online health and medical information. The doctors of Medicine Net are also proud to author Webster's New World™ Medical Dictionary First, Second and Third Editions (May, 2008) John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; ISBN-10: 0470189282.
            If you are medical student, you don't forget this website. This website provide to us so many information about medical terms. Everything was update everyday. Of course, this website has enough condition for ASPECT.
            3. http://www.clark.edu
            As you know about this website, the website about education. Therefore, this website only provide the information about education. For example: Medical radiography.

            Mission Statement

"The Clark College Medical Radiography Program prepares the successful graduate to obtain an Associate of Applied Science degree and take the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) certification examination. Graduates work in hospitals, clinics and a variety of other health care settings. Medical Radiographers take radiographs of the human body; and these radiographic images are used to make a diagnosis for the patient and their doctor."             4. http://www.medicare.gov
            This website was created by the government, with a purpose help everyone finds out the medical program. This website only provide the information about the government program. People need to know what is program that they have ability applying. There is a good news, that is you can read this website with many languages.
            Eventually,  taking a walk on online is not a easy work, if you did not have specific goal. Thus, need to know what is my goal? and how do I do it? I cannot to find out government information in education area; or I cannot find out commercial information in medical field .If I do not determine my goal; surely, I spend a lot of time for sitting in front of the computer, but I do not have any result.

            Good luck to you and to me.

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Types of Information: Focus on search Engines and Web Sites

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the topic of eighth week. We have worked hard from beginning of this quarter. Now, we are preparing for a good final. Of course, everything is not simple, but I always think that you are a good student. You will win. Good luck to you.

Our topic of this week is: "Types of Information: Focus on search Engines and Web Sites"

Our mission is find five search features of the search tool which was upload on Moodle. I read on Research Journal, there is a word "ANDing". I find out its mean on internet, and I want to share with you.

            What is the ANDing process?

            When a source host attempts to communicate with a destination host, the source host uses its subnet mask to determine whether the destination host is on the local network or a remote network. This is known as the ANDing process.

            The AND function has the following properties:

            · If the two compared values are both 1, the result is 1.

            · If one of the values is 0 and the other is 1, the result is 0.

            · If both of the compared values are 0, the result is 0.

            Therefore, we follow this way. First of all, I have five search tool, such as:

           

      Ask Advanced Search;    Internet Public Library ;  Web Search from About.com ;  FindArticles;  Dogpile

1.      Ask Advanced Search: Ask search only help us find out the answers which one I want to find. Ask Advanced Search did not have the number of results.

Ex: I put Biology Articles in Google search, I have about 142,000,000 results; but I put Biology Articles in Ask search, I have nothing.

I put "Biology Articles" in Google search, I have about 123,000 results; but I put "Biology Articles" in Ask search, I see some questions articles such as:

What is a good biology article?

What is a good website for Biology articles?

Where can I Find Biology Articles?

2.      Internet Public Library: I think this search is not good, because when you type wrong letter, it did not have synonym for your choose.

3.      About.com: When I put Biology Articles on About search, I receive 18,100 results. Then I put "Biology Articles" on that, I received 15 results. In this search, it did not have synonym, therefore, be careful  when you type wrong letter.

4.      Find Articles: When I put Biology Article on it, I received 35,500,000 results. This search has a synonyms. I feel that it is very fast. When I put "Biology Articles" on it, I receive 18,400 results.

5.      Dogpile:  I think this search is good. Besides that, I see a letter line "Search result from: Google, Yahoo, Yandex." This search did not has numbers of result.

Next, I find out something such as:

            " What is the difference between search engine and metasearch engine?"

·         A search engine is a search tool that usually have their own database of sites they crawl and list in their database, for example Google.

·         A meta-search engine is a search tool that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and aggregates the results into a single list or displays them according to their source.

            "What is a Subject Directory?"

            To locate information on the Web, you either know Web address for a specific site, or search for a topic of interest.

When searching by topic, a huge number of pages will often be retrieved and makes it difficult to identify the relevant resources. Subject directories help to alleviate the problem.

Subject Directories:

·         are created and maintained by the directory's staff

·         allow you to browse Internet resources by different subject categories

·         enable you to search by keywords within the contents of the directories

In this case, I have:

§  Meta- search is Dogpile

§  Subject Directory are About.com, Internet Public Library,

§  The best of the rest is FindArticles

§  Search tool is ASK.COM.

Eventually, I have so many tools for my research. Everything is in the questions such as:

1. What do you want to find?

2. Do you understand all of the tool around you?

3. How do you apply your knowlege about the tools which help you have the best result ?

            Good luck to you again.