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Rules of the road for today's class: 1. You can take notes on this sheet, or open a Word document and take notes that way. 2. Most of what you find today you can email to yourself. If you need to print, just limit yourself to 20 pages or so.
Knowledge is information that we have thought about and understand. Knowledge is assembled from information resources. In connecting, analyzing, interpreting, and finding patterns within pieces of information, knowledge builds understanding. For the individual person, knowledge involves both understanding, and the ability to make use of data and information to answer questions, solve problems, and make decisions.
We always hope that information is accurate. But information can be collected within conceptual frameworks that influence or change its meaning.
With so many information resources available in today's world, excellent resources reside alongside the most dubious. Be aware of the where your information came from. Some helpful approaches:
Misinformation is information that is wrong or mistaken. Remedy: fact check! Out on the Internet, especially in emails, misguided people sometimes pass along misinformation that represents urban legends. You can check out Internet Hoaxes at a Department of Homeland Security Web site || Snopes.com unravels urban legends.
Disinformation is misinformation with an attitude. Disinformation is false, mistaken, and/or misleading information that is distributed to intentionally mislead. The Internet makes it very easy to disseminate propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation. The Hate Directory lists Web sites, blogs, mailing lists and so forth that do this. Then there are Web sites that are "just for fun." For example a Web site for the country of Molossia. Whitehouse.net is a spoof. More spoofs.
Wikipedia articles are written by volunteers. Some people judge that Wikipedia is too liberal, and these folks have founded Conservapedia (aimed at high school students and homeschoolers). Then there is RationalWiki.com (which keeps an eye on Conservapedia). And many other incarnations. Hoping to mend all this is Citizendium.com -- where article authors are named, and there are editors.
Newspapers One approach is to find commentary and analysis published in newspapers and magazines about the disaster at the time of the disaster and after. To do that: 1. Go to the Cabrillo
College Library homepage
What did you find? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 1. Go to the Cabrillo
College Library homepage You can limit to particular time period. You can limit to a particular type of material, e.g., editorials, as in this search for Vietnam coverage over the period 1970 through 1976:
You can also limit your search to particular periodical titles, which might be interesting if you want commentary from a periodical known for its slant. To do that, change the search field to Source, e.g.,
Some well-known news and opinion magazines and their "slants" (according to Magazines for Libraries):
For getting "off shore," you might try looking for articles from these highly respected British resources
Once you find articles, you can email them to yourself. What did you find? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
These Web sites list disasters:
The largest worldwide databases for tracking disasters:
Once you decide what disaster you are going to focus on, then go to the previous sections of this worksheet and look for newspaper and periodical articles about it.
Organizations that
are likely to have information about and likely some analysis of disasters.
Most of these sites will
Use CQ Researcher 1. Go to the Cabrillo
College Library homepage To bring up the CQ Research article to read, you may need to hold down the Ctrl key when you click in order in disable the popup blocker on the computer. What did you find? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
What did you find? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
Books are often on broader topics. Selected titles that might be of interest:
Your notes_____________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ The library now has about 15,000 electronic books (soon to be 18,000). The amazing thing is that you can search inside those books. To get to the electronic books: 1. Go to the Cabrillo
College Library homepage To get a sense of what is possible, try searching using the words disasters poverty What did you find? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
Google now does what it calls a universal search -- it searches a variety of its databases and returns results alerting you when there is interesting stuff in more than one. Here, I did a Web search, but Google tells me that not only are there Web sites that might interest me, but there is also information in periodical articles (Scholar) and in books.
In using Google, you can limit your search to resources from particular Web sites. Let's say you want commentary about Katrina from The Urban Institute (left-learning) to compare with commentary from the American Enterprise Institute (right-leaning). You do this by including the word site: (with the colon) then the URL for the organization (no space after the colon). For example:
fair.org (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) is a 20 year old organization that many people trust for its judgments about media matters. It has a list of think-tanks and their political learnings, the primary ones of which are:
Try some Google searches. What did you find? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Tired of using Google? Try Ask.com and Exalead.com. Both of them suggest ways you can narrow and expand your topic.
TV and Video access
The
Web is rich in images. You'll
want to feel comfortable in bringing an image from the Web into
a Word document.
Go to one of the following sites and select an image.
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
-- highlight the URL, then Ctrl C to copy and Ctrl
V to paste).
How to cite the resources you use
The MLA Formatting and Style Guide from Purdue University is very helpful
If you finish a little early, all of the computers in the classroom have Google Earth. Go to START -> Programs -> Google Earth. Wow!
G. Jonker, T. N. Smalley Fall 2007 |
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