Cabrillo College Library

Nancy Phillips

What's on this page

• Web Sites about Reading
• Biography Resource Center
• Literature Resource Center
• Online Encyclopedias
• Web Resources
• Magazines
• New Administration and Trends. And News!
• Bulletin Board
• Leaders
• Researching Other Subjects
• Images
• Review
• Evaluate this Session

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1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
3. Click on Biography Resource Center
   
   
4. We are going to look for information about Mitch Albom, the author of Tuesdays with Morrie. On the next screen, in the search box under the term Author Search, type in your author's name like this:
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Click to read one of the essays. Some of the essays are fairly long. You are probably most interested in information about Albom and the book, so you want to go to where the word Tuesdays is used. Hold down the Ctrl key (lower left of the keyboard) and strike the letter F. This is the FIND command. Type in the word Tuesdays and press Enter. Write down something you learned.
   
   

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   Once you bring up the whole article, note that you can email it to yourself -- the icon for doing so is towards the top of the page, on the left Nifty!!

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
3. Click on Literature Resource Center
   
   
   
4. Click to search for Name of Work and type in Tuesdays with Morrie
   
   
   
   
5. Click on Yom Kippur with Morrie
   
   
   
   
6. Now, you can read this review. You can also listen to the review -- it's a computer reading to you, but try it just for fun!
   
   
   
   Write down something you found interesting.
   

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1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
3. Click on CREDO Reference (under Encyclopedias/Background Information, in center column)
   
   One reader has written that Morrie talked about life in such a way that Mitch felt his own life was too materialistic. What if you wanted a good definition of materialistic. CREDO Reference would be a terrific tool to use. Like this:
   
   
   
   
   What does materialistic mean?
   
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1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Search the Internet
3. On the next screen, click on Search Engines
4. On the next screen, click on Google

What did you find?

1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles
2. Select Academic Search Premier (listed under General, in lefthand column)
3. Click to go to Advanced Search
   
   
   
   
4. Click in the small box next to Full Text -- this will limit your search to articles that are full text in the database.
   
   The second time that Mitch went to visit Morrie, he was semi-idled because of the newspaper strike. What if you wanted to know a bit more about that strike. You could use Academic Search Premier to get magazine articles about it, like this:
   
   

Do the same search. From the results list, click on the article title to get full information about it.

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Note that you can email the article to yourself -- click on the picture of the envelope.

Note that you can email the article to yourself -- click on the picture of the envelope. And you can click to get an already formatted citation to the article!!

There is a lot going on in Washington these days, with a new Administration and new policies. Want some good, fairly dependable Web sites that try to keep up? Try these!!

To bring up these Web sites, you have to come back to the Web page for this class. It's in your list of Favorites.

• Citizen Tube: Watching Video Change our World. NOTE: You will probably have to hold down the CTRL key (bottom left on your keyboard) to play a video -- you need to disable the popup blocker on the computer.
• FactCheck.org "You can have your own opinion but not your own facts"
• Recovery.gov is where the Obama Administration tells you about where your recovery money is going. There's a Recovery.ca.gov site for California!
• Trends to Watch from the PEW Center on the States

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Want to check on news stories?

• Google News carries headlines and information from around the world
• Mediascrape connects you with TV news programs from around the world. NOTE: You will probably have to hold down the CTRL key (bottom left on your keyboard) to play a video -- you need to disable the popup blocker on the computer.
• NewsMap groups news stories by region and topic
• LinkTV: television without borders

  Go to the Bulletin Board for this class. Click on Post a new message. Type in your name and write a couple of sentences about what you learned from the political Web sites and/or the news sites.
  

More political information:

• California State Legislature
• OtherPointsOf View -- Topsy's collection of Web sites from outside the United States
• Project Vote Smart -- volunteers collect and offer information about your representatives. Type in your Zip code to get information about your representative.
• U.S. House of Representatives
• U.S. Senate
• World Leaders online directory from the CIA
  
  

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There are two good places to start to research topics.

Use the library's Internet Links.

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Internet Links (3rd icon down on left)
   
   For every subject we teach at the college there is a link to high quality Web resources. Click to explore some subject areas like history or economics.
   
   What's your impression of these resources?

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The other resource is Librarians' Internet Index. These are Web sites selected by librarians, therefore they are "Web sites you can trust."

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Search the Internet (4th icon down on left)
3. Click on Subject Lists and Directories
4. Click on Librarians' Internet Index

Type in a subject and search for some resources. What did you find?

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The Internet is full of fine images. Look for an image using one of these:

• Corbis
• GettyImages
• Flickr

1. Bring up a Word document    START -> Programs -> Word
2. Go back to your image. Right click on it. 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 where you got the image and its URL (Internet address).

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).

Please click to fill out a little review.

How to Get to This Page on the Internet

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on English
4. Under Course Related Materials, under READING, click on READ 255, N. Phillips