name____________________________
Go
to this page on the Internet:
- From
the Library homepage, click on Internet Links
- Click
on Dental Hygiene
- Scroll
down towards the bottom of the page and under Course-Related Materials,
click on DH 186A
- Make this page
a Favorite -- click on Favorites
on the top tool bar, then on Add to Favorites, then
on OK. Anytime you want to go back to this page,
you can just go to your Favorites.
| Identify
the service or topic you want to research |
Community
Information Database at Santa Cruz City/County Public Library provides
information about many agencies and organizations in this area.To
get an idea of how it works, type the word dental
into the search box.
Here are some
direct links for some programs and agencies:
Is what you want
to research not on this list? Then try your hand with a Google search.
Go to Google.com. Use parentheses
to hold words in phrases together. For example, if you were interested
in dental sealant programs in Santa Cruz County, your search could look
like this:
Using one
or more of these approaches, search for a service to research.
Note down contact info -- names, addresses, phone numbers, URLs.
You can open up a Word document, or just write on this
page.
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
| What
are the people like who are served by the agency
or program? |
You are going
to use a variety of demographic data sources.
These
approaches are also useful for getting the statistics you need:
- Go to
the Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click
on Full Text Articles
- Under
Social Sciences, click on RAND California
Type in
keywords, and/or scroll down to see your statistical choices. |
- Go to
the Cabrillo College Library homepage
-
Click
on Internet Links
-
Click
on Statistics
The resources
you will probably use the most are under California Statistics
and U.S. Government Statistics (e.g., Census Bureau) |
Your
notes (or make notes on your Word document)
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
You'll need some focused discussion about specific topics, e.g., community
dental health, preventive dentistry, controversies about fluoride.
1. Academic
Search Premier provides access to information about articles
published in approximately 8,000 periodicals (both magazines and journals)
for about the last 10-15 years. For about 4,000 of those periodicals,
full text copies of the articles are in the database. For those of
you for whom this is new, here's how you use Academic Search
Premier.
- Go to the
Cabrillo College Library homepage
- Click on
Full Text Articles [If you are coming in from off campus,
type in your library card number]
- On the next
screen, under Health and Medicine (center column),
click on Academic Search Premier
- On the next
screen, click on
- Click in
the small box next to Full Text.
This will limit your search to articles that are fulltext in the
database.
- Type in your
search terms. Then click on Search
Click
on article title to get to the screen with full information about it
Article
title__________________________________________
Article
author(s)______________________________________
Periodical
title_______________________________________
Date
of publication____________________
NOTE:
Just so you know -- You can read an article on your computer
screen, of course. When you are researching, you might want to print,
save, or email the article. There are buttons towards the top of the
screen for doing that.
2.
Other health and medical databases
- Go
to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
-
Click
on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
-
There
are a number of databases listed under Health and Medicine.
Select one or more and explore it/them for articles of interest
to you.
What
did you find? Make notes here, or add to your Word document:
Article
title__________________________________________
Article
author(s)______________________________________
Periodical
title_______________________________________
Date of publication____________________
| Medicare
and Medicaid and other funding resources |
Explore some of
these Web sites. What did you learn?
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
You'll want to
be familiar with resources such as these:
Explore some of
these Web sites. What did you learn?
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
More and more videos
are available on the Web. I am not guaranteeing that you'll find good
videos that relate just to the dental hygiene services you'll be investigating,
but you should know that the world of videos on the Internet is there,
and is growing. Since anyone can upload videos, and zillions of people
do, the quality is uneven. Sometimes, the ratings (number of stars next
to a video title) help you select.
The main outlets
for videos on the Web are
Look for videos
by typing in "dental hygiene" so you can get a notion of what's
available. To play a video in the classroom, you have to disable the
popup blocker on the computer. To do that, hold down the Ctrl
key (lower left of keyboard) when you click to get the video.
| Transfer
an image to a Word document |
The Web is rich
in images. You'll want to know how to copy an image into a Word document.
If you can't do this in your sleep, go through these steps.
To
get an image, use one of these:
Once
you have your image, to insert it into a Word document, follow these
steps:
1. From the
Start menu bring up Word
2. Right click on the image. Scroll down to Copy
3. Go to your Word document. Position your cursor to where you want
your image to be. Paste the picture (File -> Paste;
or, use Ctl V)
4. Under (or near) the image, type the word Source
and include the title of the Web site and its URL. (You can just copy
and paste the URL into your Word document -- Ctrl C to copy;
Ctrl V to paste)
Your
image is there. You can write next to and below the image.
To put text around the image -- click on the image, go to Format
-> Picture. Click on Layout tab, and select the layout
format you want.
Please
share your thoughts about this session.
Thanks.
How to get to this page on the Internet:
- Be on the Cabrillo
College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
- Click on Internet
Resources
- Click on Dental
Hygiene
- Scroll down,
and under Dental Hygiene, click on DH 186A, Community
Oral Health, R. Arnesty
R. Arnesty; T.
N. Smalley
10/07
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