This week’s research has been the best so far! Just looking up books I would like to read in Google books and IT Pro could keep me busy for a lifetime. IT Pro has a great advanced search tool that you can use to really narrow your search if you’re looking for something very specific. I found this tool extremely helpful. In short, all the tools we learned about this week are amazing! I think every student at Clark should be aware that these tools are available to them to use.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Google Books Research
Search Term(s) used: Privacy and laws and COPPA
Citation information for the book: A gift of fire: social, legal, and ethical issues for
computers and the internet by Sara Baase Pearson Education, 2003 Original from the University of Michigan
What clues does Google Books provide that lead you to believe this book is trustworthy? The book sites several references, it was originally from the University of Michigan and the author has 102 other books by her.
IT Pro research
Holy Cow! I love this! The IT Pro has so many books that I could use just for everyday stuff to research material for school. I never knew that this was available and I have been taking e-learning classes now from Clark for over a year. It really could have helped me out on several of my other classes. This is something that every student at Clark should be aware of as a tool for them to use.
I entered the “Home PC” into the search as instructed and found that there are 1503 titles in this category. I looked at several of the books and I found myself very familiar with some of them and in fact had a few of them. But the best part was that I just got a new laptop and it runs windows 7 and I was thinking I will need to pick-up a hot for dummies for it soon so I can learn all the tricks of it. And as if by reading my mind there are several great books on just that subject in full text! I don’t need to buy them! I can read them front to back or just search for what questions I have out of them.
Another great feature was the advanced search field. You can narrow what you’re looking for from titles, authors, full text and things like if it contains certain things or not. You can really narrow down what you’re looking for its way and take your search results from a thousand books to just a dozen.
What a great tool!
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Research Journal part two Summit research
Search Term(s) used: Privacy and laws and COPPA
Citation information for one book: Proskauer on privacy : a guide to privacy and data security law in the information age by Christopher Wolf; Proskauer Rose LLP.; Practising Law Institute. New York City : Practising Law Institute, ©2006
Subject Headings: Data protection -- Law and legislation -- United States. Privacy, Right of -- United States. Computer security -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Location and Call Number for the Book. University of Washington, Gallagher Law Library OCLC Number 74710688
What clues in the book record lead you to believe that this book is credible, or trustworthy? One of the Authors is a Lawyer, is located in a law library and the publisher is a law institute
How did this search differ from the search in the Cannell Library Book Catalog? The Summit catalog has a section where people can review the book.
Research Journal part two Cannell Library research
Choose one book that looks like it could be useful for your topic. Write an entry in your Research Journal, documenting the following:
· Search Term(s) used: Privacy and laws and COPPA
· Citation information for one book: (author, title, city of publication, publisher, publication date): Privacy and the Internet : your expectations and rights under the law / by Margaret C. Jasper. Dobbs Ferry, NY : Oceana Publications, 2003.
· Subject Headings (taken from the Subject Field):Data protection/law and legislation/Internet/law and legislation/Privacy, Right of/United States
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· Is this a Circulating Book or an E-Book? Circulating Book
· Location and Call Number for the Book: Cannell Library Second Floor KF1263.C65 J38 2003
· What clues in the book record lead you to believe that this book is credible, or trustworthy? The book has a bibliography. The author has 26 other books in the library. Publisher of international law.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Matching Sources to Needs
For question #1 What laws are there to help keep company's from promoting merchandise inappropriate to my children? I could use for a source a scholarly journal because it could have original research on my question I could also use a reference book such as a law book to see if there are any laws that could be relevant to my questions.
For question #2 How can COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Production Act of 1998) help keep my kids safe when using the Internet. I could use as a source a government web site like usa.gov to learn more about COPPA. I could also use a periodical magazine to find popular opinion on the subject.
For question #3 What kind of personal privacy can I expect from my Internet provider. I could use reference book like a law book to see if there are any laws on this subject. I could also use newspapers to see if there are any articles about my subject and to further my search with any sources sited in the articles.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
summery of this activity
In this exercise we learned how to brainstorm ideas for research, how to narrow the ideas with brain mapping and use sources like subject encyclopedias to help continue to narrow your ideas. Subject encyclopedias and general encyclopedias are different in that a subject encyclopedias devote them self to a specific subject or area. where as a general encyclopedia gives you a brief introduction to a topic.
We also learned the difference from a web search of a topic and a deep web search. A normal search engine can only get information from web pages but can not go into a web pages database and get any "deep" information they might hold. So when doing research a deep web search can yield you valuable information that a normal search engine can't find you. So make sure you are utilizing all your search options and avoid non-researched and questionable articles that you can find in wikis. Wikipedia is an example of this. The information you find there can be edited by anyone and may not be researched or reliable.
Friday, January 15, 2010
three research questions
#1
What laws are there to help keep company's from promoting merchandise inappropriate to my children?
#2
How can COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Production Act of 1998) help keep my kids safe when using the internet.
#3
What kind of personal privacy can I expect from my internet provider.
open web search of my topic
Wikipedia: privacy
Info from page:
The page is not secured so anyone can change it.
Many languages lack a specific word for "privacy".
keywords:
anonymity
security
identity theft
personally identifiable information
Sources:
Tim Wafa (January 2008). "Internet Privacy Rights - A Pragmatic Legal Perspective". Berkeley Electronic Press. Retrieved 2008-08-17.
article that looks interesting to me to research
Topic: Privacy
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search term: privacy
Key words/ideas:
rights of privacy
right to die
student records
14th amendment
search and seizure
1st amendment
false light privacy
public interest
outing
sex discrimination
freedom of association
national security
privacy doctrine
COPPA- children's online privacy protection act of 1998
FERPA- family educational rights and privacy act of 1974
intimate decisions
warrant less search
privacy invasion
lesser exception of privacy in auto's
articles:
1st article:
title: Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)
author: Jennifer Lambe
source:Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2007. p162-163
Page: 162,163
Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2007 by SAGE Publications, Inc.
2nd article:
title:Promotional tie-ins
author: Frank E Dardis
source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media. Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2007. p678-679.
page: 678,679
Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2007 by SAGE Publications, Inc.
broad topic research key words
* Privacy
rights of privacy
right to die
student records
14th amendment
search and seizure
1st amendment
false light privacy
public interest
outing
sex discrimination
freedom of association
national security
privacy doctrine
COPPA- children's online privacy protection act of 1998
FERPA- family educational rights and privacy act of 1974
intimate decisions
warrant less search
privacy invasion
lesser exception of privacy in auto's
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