Web-Page

This week we had to put all of websites and Google Bookmarks into a web page. This assignment is going to benefit me a lot for my presentation because it helped me to group my topics together. The best part about this assignment is having those categories to split your sites into. I know that when I am looking for more information on the signs and symptoms I can refer to that page and it will take me directly to what I am looking for. All of these assignments using different methods of technology are so interesting to me and very useful because I have never used computers in this way before. When I would research something in the past, I would go to a link and print it out and go from there. I really think for future projects I will be able to use a web page design like the one we did to help gather all of my resources.

LIVE CLASSROOM!

This was my first experience ever giving a presentation on-line and I have to say I enjoyed it! It was really interesting how the whole live classroom thing worked and it is actually really useful. It was great to be able to sit at my desk and much easier to talk to my computer rather than a group of people. John, who was the first classmate to go, I felt did an awesome job. He really did a good job of setting the tone for the presentations and was very informative. For me, his presentation was useful because I am interested in being a coach and his search methods gave me ideas for places to look into. I also felt Erin also did a great job differentiating between her searches and how she went about narrowing her search that will help me with my topic. All in all I felt everyone in our group was really supportive of each other and did very well. I think this assignment helped to bring some of us together and get to know each other better.

More Ways!

I thought over these past couple of weeks we had pretty much covered all the different ways to search topics on the internet, but I guess not! This week I decided to look up a new topic because I really could not find anything new to look up on HPV. Using the GEM database I decided to look up information on HIV which of course had a lot of different stuff. Using the GALILEO engine I thought it would be cool to seach something involving health that related to me which was women and sports. I got some really good stuff from this method of searching also.

Internet Databases

During this week, I really learned how to enhance my methods for searching information on the internet. I really had no idea there were this many different ways to search for the same topic on the internet. I discovered different search engines that seemed to really work for me and others that were not as successful. My favorite and most useful were probably the Google and YAHOO sites and really the ERIC database was pretty helpful. I didn’t really enjoy using the Library Index as much, but it was still neat to experiment with because I have never used it before. Thanks to all this searching though I pretty much have found all the information I am going to need on HPV.

Google Bookmarks

During this week's assignment, I learned how to use Google Bookmarks. I have never used anything like this before and I have found that it makes looking back at needed websites much easier. I like that we can get to Google bookmarks from any computer and retrieve any of our websites at any time. I believe that this is going to be a very useful tool with many of our assignments and papers throughout this program, so I am excited about learning how to use it.