Week 7

WOW! Another week completed with and only a few more to go. I can’t believe its almost over but I also cant wait. Luckily this week went by pretty easily. For the assignment “web search” I thought that one was interesting, I was able to use sites I’ve never even heard of, such as the dogpile. But that assignment took me the longest to do. For some reason every time I would search for a keyword I couldn’t get any information but luckily I eventually found some. For the Citation assignment that one was very easy.

Overall all the assignments were easy for me this week. Having an easy assignment such as the citation one was defiantly a stress reliever. But, I’m very happy that we did web search assignment. I was able to find two amazing sites that will defiantly be on my pathfinder.

Week 6

Part 1.

During the week had an assignment “My Research Strategy” . I think this assignment was another helpful one to do. I was able to think of more words or phrases that would go along with my topic perfectly. After I was finish with the assignment and had sent it off, I of coarse found other words that would have been perfect for the assignment. But I wasn’t too bummed because I was able to put them under Key Words section in the “Revised Research Plan” assignment.

Part 2.

Over all I think this week was a pretty easy one. And I’m excited to see how our final projects are finally coming together. Good luck with week 7 it looks like it’s going to be a tough one!

Part 1. Reflections on Course Content

Almost all the assignments were easy for me. But when I was doing part of the last assignment I found a new word that meant the same as my topic. Ecoterrorism, which is just another word for bioterrorism. I hope by discovering the word I will be able to expand my searching’s and find even more information on my topic.


Part 2. Applications to your Life

For me week five was easy I only had trouble with one assignment. The first assignment “MLA Citation Style” was very easy since I have been citing information since grade school. The second assignment “Annotation Analysis” I thought, was also very easy. I have never heard of Annotations before so I enjoyed doing this assignment and learning something new. The last assignment “Citing and Annotating Sources” I did have trouble with. Dissecting an Annotation was easy but have to create one your self wasn’t the most fun. I had trouble finding the information that I needed to put in to it. I could find a lot about the author’s background form both of them so I just put down the information it gave me. But in the end I’m happy with my work and the fact that I’m finding more information on my topic makes me even happier. :)

Week 4

For week four I started on the "How I Know Part 1" assignment. I searched all over the web for the origin of Canuck. I'm not one hundred percent sure on if the origin is actually form a comic book characters name but it was the only answer that came up multiply times. For Part 2 of "How I Know" was kind of fun. People often don't sit there and think about how we know the things we know and why. So this assignment gave everyone the chance to sit there and think about how we actually know what we know. I realized that I know everything i know just from living life. If I didn't go to school, go outside, go shopping, go to work etc. there would be thousands of thing I didn't know.



Doing the "Research Plan" i think, helped out a lot when it comes to our topics. I was able to see how my final project might turn out, and how i need to look for some more information in certain sections of my topic. I was also very interested in the video we had to watch for the "Selecting Information Sources" assignment. I never really realized how important events get out into the news world so quickly. But its true about how everything first gets put on the web a.s.a.p. and then hours later or the next day its all over the television etc. I never sat there and actually thought about it before.