|
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Transfer
Images
|
Soquel High School Researchers name________________________________ Go to the Web page for this class:
Rules of the road -- When you are in the classroom, you can open Word and take notes that way. The computers downstairs do not have Word. (Maybe you have a gmail account and can use Google Documents?) Also, in the classroom, you can print modest amounts for free -- no more than 10 pages per person. Downstairs, if you want to print, you have to pay a print machine ahead of time. Since you are not Cabrillo students, you'll have to get ID numbers for this purpose from the Circulation Desk. Reference Books For each of your topics, I have identified a reference title in our library that will provide you with useful background information. See the handout -- Reference Books for Background Information. It's alphabetical by your first name. Half the group will stay in the classroom and do research here. The other half of the group will go downstairs to find the reference book. You may want to photocopy the article -- the copy room is marked on your floorplan. You can use computers downstairs to research your topic using guidance provided here. Halfway through the morning, the downstairs group will come up to the classroom and visa versa. For many of your topics, you can also get good background information by using these resources: CQ Researcher -- Each issue deals with a single topic of current political or social interest. Major aspects of the topic are outlined providing extremely useful background information.
Search for coverage of your topic. Note that you can email these articles to yourself. (Email button is top righthand part of the screen) Here in the classroom, you may need to hold down the Ctrl key (lower left of your keyboard) when you click on the article to bring up the full text. (You're disabling a popup blocker.)
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.
Electronic books The library has about 15,000 electronic books, and more are being added. When searching the electronic books, you are looking for the occurrence of words inside all those thousands of books. Amazing!
The Library subscribes to a variety of databases. To see the full array, click on Full Text Articles from the Cabrillo College Library homepage. To use the databases from off campus, you have to have a Cabrillo College Library card. Periodicals The largest periodicals database is EBSCOhost's Academic Search Premier which provides indexing for about 8000 periodicals, and fulltext articles for about 5000 of those titles.
Article title__________________________________________________ Periodical title (look where the screen says Source) _____________________________________________________ Date of periodical
issue_______________ EBSCOhost
has a nifty email feature. Once your article is on your screen,
click on E-mail towards the top of the screen.
Use Proquest Newspapers (NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor)
When you find a full text article, you might want to try emailing
it to yourself (click on Email)
In The First Person is a Web site that provides access to what people have said -- transcripts of oral histories, diaries that people have kept, personal narratives, etc. Here are some topics that might be worth a search in this wonderful database:
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! Let's say I was preparing for an informative speech on color blindness. Let's evaluate some Web sites I found using Google. Sometimes it helps to know who bought the domain name. You can do that. Use the WhoIs Directory from Internic In July 2007, Google started doing what it calls "universal searching" -- it searches several of its databases simultaneously. When you do a search with Google on the Web, Google will alert you when there are significant resources in one of its other databases. In this case, Google is saying, essentially, there are also books on the topic you might be interested in.  Getting to a list of Internet Search Engines
Tired of Googling? Try these new, experimental search engines: Search for Web sites that would be useful to researching about some of topic of interest to you. Make notes below about quality Web sites you find.
From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Internet Links On the next screen, click on Style Guides Noodletools
helps you write citations! Create simple MLA or APA citations.
To watch a video
on a computer in the classroom, hold down Ctrl when you click to bring
it up (the popup blocker issue, again).
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. Go to corbis.com or gettyimages.com. Here's how to do the transfer:
Under (or near) the image, type the word Source, and include the title of the Web site where you got the image and its 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
T. N. Smalley |
.
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 Full
Text to limit your search to fulltext articles on the
database. 
.
Your
results will be grouped into subcategories:
