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.

1 comment:

  1. Excellent work, Julie.

    I like that you were able to conceptualize the difference between the web and the deep web. There are deep web sources that are not through the library, too. One of my favorites is the Smithsonian website. Check it out!!

    Good to think about the differences between scholarly information and what is on Wikipedia,too.

    Keep up the good work,
    Sue

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