name________________________________
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Go
to the page for this class -- click on Internet Links,
then select Communication, then scroll down and under
Course-Related Materials, click on COMM 2, Group
Discussion, S. Gentile.
-
Go
to Favorites -> Add, then click OK.
Now, you'll be able to go back to this page easily by click
on Favorites.
What organizations could you contact about doing service learning?
- Go to the Community
Information Database at Santa Cruz Public Library.
- Click in the
Keyword Search box (over on right) and type in search terms, e.g.,
homeless
- If you just
want to browse the database, scroll down a bit and note you can browse
by subject or location(!) -- what if you live in Felton and you want
to do your service learning there?
Notes about
what you found: __________________
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| Don't
have PowerPoint? Try using Thumbstacks
-- it's all on the Web! Click on Presentation Builder (top
right) to get started. You have to register, but it's free. |
| Defensive
and supportive behaviors |
CQ Researcher Published weekly, each issue deals
with a single topic of current political or social interest.
In 16 to 20 pages, major aspects of the topic are outlined, along
with background information and a description of the current situation.
For most topics, a pro-con opinion page highlights primary points
of the opposing arguments. Each issue closes with a discussion
of future outlooks and a list of sources for additional research.
-
Go
to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
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Click
on Fulltext Articles
-
Click
on CQ Researcher. It is the second database listed under
General. [If you are coming in from off campus, you
will need the barcode from your Cabrillo College library card]
Search for coverage
of your topic. If you don't have a topic in mind, pick one from the
recent reports. Make notes here about what you find. Note that you can
email these articles to yourself.
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Other
good resources
Your
notes____________________________________________________
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"The only
difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have
trained the butterflies to fly in formation." - Edwin Newman
Did you pick up
one or two pieces of good advice? What?
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Did you pick up
one or two pieces of good advice? What?
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Monroe's
Motivated Delivery
Your notes____________________________________________________
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Go to the Cabrillo
College Library homepage and click on Library
Catalog. There is a link to the Cabrillo College
Library homepage at the top of this page. If you are in the library,
just click on HOME on the top toolbar. The URL is http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
The library offers
a wide variety of databases with fulltext resources.
- From the Cabrillo
College Library homepage, click on Fulltext Articles.
- A good database
for periodical articles is Academic Search Premier
-- it's the first one listed under General. [If you
are accessing this from home, your library card number is your user
ID]
- On the next
screen, click on
 .
With the Advanced search screen, you can most efficiently
search more than one term at a time. Click on the little box next
to the word
Fulltext
to limit your search to fulltext articles on the database.
- Type in your
search terms and hit
 .
Use Academic
Search Premier to identify at least one periodical article on
your topic. From the results list, click on the article title
to get to the screen with more information. Article
title__________________________________________________
Periodical title
(look where the screen says Source)
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Date of periodical_______________
EBSCOhost
has a nifty email feature. Once your article is on your screen,
click on E-mail towards the top of the screen.
| Find
Newspaper Articles -- National Newspapers
|
Use National Newspapers
(NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington
Post, and Christian Science Monitor)
- From the Cabrillo
College Library homepage, click on Fulltext Articles
- Click on National
Newspaper Articles. It is listed under News, the third one down.
[If you are accessing this from home, your library card number
is your user ID]
- Again, the
Advanced Search mode offers more options. Try it!
- When you find
a fulltext article, you might want to try emailing it to yourself
(click on Email)
Find an article
on your topic.
Article title____________________________________________
Where & when
was it published?_________________________________
- AlterNet
<http://www.alternet.org/> From the Institute for Alternative
Journalism.
- Newspapers
<http://libwww.cabrillo.edu/depts/news.html> from around the
world. For many topics, reading news stories written in a country
other than the United States will help you understand other dynamics
associated with the topic.
There are many
statistical resources you can use, online and in print. It will
be helpful to gain some experience with both. Rand
California (California and U.S. Statistics) From the library
homepage, select Fulltext Articles; select Rand California.
General statistical
information about the United States
Print source: Statistical Abstract of the United States
location: ref HA202.U5
Online source: U.S. Census Bureau <http://www.census.gov/>
More specialized statistical resources
----Print ----
Crime in the United States ref HV7776787.A3 1996
Generation X: The Young Adult Market ref HC110.C6M544 1997
Statistical Abstract of the World ref HA154.S83 1994
Statistical Forecasts of the United States ref HC106.8.S7357
1993
Statistical Handbook on Adolescents in America ref. HQ796.S8237
1996
Statistical Handbook on Violence in America ref HN90.V5S833
1996
Statistical Record of Women Worldwide ref HQ1150.S73 1991
----Online----
CLIKS Online provides
regional profiles, graphs, maps and raw data on topics related to children.
Want rates of teenage pregnancy by county -- that's here! Similar information
at the state and national level is available at KidsCount.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
Or go to the Statistics
page under the library's Internet Links for more choices.
| Look
for Web Sites on Your Own |
It's one thing for you to have a reference to a URL from your textbook
or instructor. It's quite another thing for you to venture out to find
a good Web site on your own. Evaluation
is important!
Smart
Searching Most search engines have an advanced search mode. Google's
advanced search mode is pictured below. What is illustrated is a search
for 1) Web pages that include the words fluoridation
and toxicity; 2) published (or refreshed) in the
last 3 months; 3) where the terms are used in the
title of the page; and 4) that come from educational institutions
(.edu).
Getting
to a list of Internet Search Engines
Search
for Web sites that would be useful to researching about some of topic
of interest to you.
Make
notes below about 3 quality Web sites you find
1.
URL___________________________
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2.
URL____________________________
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3.
URL_________________________________________________________
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How do you reference your resources?
- From the
Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Internet
Links
- On the next
screen, click on Style Guide
| Transfer
an Image from the Web into a Word Document |
The Web is rich
in images, and it's useful to know how to capture an image and transfer
it to a Word document. If you copy and include the image in something
you write, the origin of the image should be acknowledged. At the minimum,
give the title of the Web site and the complete URL (you can just copy
and paste the URL into your Word document).
To practice, open
a Word document if you don't already have one open (Start -> Word).
Go to one of these sources of photos on the Web (Corbis is lots of fun!)
and select an image.
ditto.com
corbis.com
Here's how to do
the transfer:
- On the Web,
right click on the image; scroll down to Save Image As
(or, Save Picture As) NOTE: in some browsers, when
you right click on an image, you will get a bar of images; to save,
click on the picture of the disk: looks like
- If you're using
a computer in the Library or in a Lab on campus, save the image to
the Desktop. If you're at your home computer, you can save
it anywhere you want. You can rename it if you want, but leave the
file extension (usually jpg or gif) as is
- Go to your Word
document
- Click on Insert
on the toolbar at the top
- Go to Picture.
Select From File
- Go to the Desktop
(or wherever you saved your image) and click on your image to insert
it.
- Under (or near)
the image, type the word Source and include the title of the
Web site and its complete URL.
Your image is there,
in your Word document. Word is not a picture editor like Photoshop.
You can make the image larger or smaller, but you often end up with
distortions, especially as you stretch it to enlarge it. You can write
next to and below the image. Putting text around the image would take
another lesson. But, at least your image is there, and you can write
text near it, commenting on it.
How
to Get to This Page on the Internet
- Be on the Cabrillo
College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
- Click on Internet
Links
- Go to Communication
- Under Course-Related
Materials, click on Comm 2, Group Discussion, S. Gentile
S. Gentile and
T. N. Smalley
last rev. 6/06 |
Images
are from corbis.com