Cabrillo College Library

Doing more searching

Use eBooks

More Literary Criticism

New Administration & Trends

Bulletin Board

World Leaders and Politicians

Researching other Subjects

Transfer an Image

NEW FUN THINGS

Plagiarism

Other Points of View

Evaluate this Session

How to Get to this Page on the Web

Reading 100

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your name

Before we get started -- Earth at Night || Prudhoe Bay || Map of Egypt

1. From the Library homepage, click on Internet Links (third icon down, on left)
2. Select Reading
3. Scroll down and under Course-Related Materials, click on READ 100 for J. Hanks
4. Make it a Favorite -- Towards the top of the screen, click on , then on Add to Favorites. Whenever you want to come back to it in this class session, you can find it easily by clicking on

Biography Resource Center

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage (click on the little house towards the top of the screen)
2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
3. Click on Biography Resource Center (in the center column under Literature)

Suppose you are going to search for information about Rudolfo Anaya. You would type in his name like this:

Scroll down and select one of the essays to read by clicking on the underlined name -- that is the link to what you can read about the author.

Read through information. In one or two sentences, summarize what you learned.

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Use Literature Resource Center

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles
3. Click on Literature Resource Center (In center column under Literature)
   
   
   
   Click to do a search using the title of a book.
   
   

For example, if you were searching for bless me, ultima you would type that in and hit the Search button.

Note down something you learned or found interesting about the book.

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The Library has about 18,000 electronic books -- eBooks.

You find electronic books when you search the online catalog. To use only eBooks:

1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles
3. Under General, click on NetLibrary E-Books.

You'll be asked for your library card number when you use eBooks from off campus.

Search the electronic books for information on Rudolfo Anaya or Bless me, Ultima.

Note down something you learned:

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CREDO Reference provides access to about 390 specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries. Turn to it often!

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage (click on the little house towards the top of the screen)
2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
3. Click on CREDO Reference (in center column)

Look for information about Bless me, Ultima

Note down something you learned:

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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.

• 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

What did you learn? ________________________________

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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

  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
• 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
  
  

What did you learn? ________________________________

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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 Web is rich in images. 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).

Go to one of the following sites and select an image.

• Corbis.com
• GettyImages.com

1. Open a Word document (From the START menu, click on Programs, then Word)
2. Go 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.
5. Show Julie Hanks or Topsy that you have transferred an image successfully! If you want, you can print out the Word document with the image and attach it to this worksheet.

Your image is there. Word is not PhotoShop (an expensive software program for altering images) -- you can't really "doctor up" your image, but you can do some manipulations.

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 wrapping format you want. You can also change the size and do some other minor alterations.

In this electronic age, it is good to be very aware of what plagiarism is and how to avoid it. Choose to watch one of these tutorials. If you have trouble bringing up the video, let me (Topsy) know -- it may be that you have to disable a popup blocker.

• You Quote It, You Note It! This is a little animated tutorial about plagiarism
• What is Plagiarism? Animated tutorials from Rutgers University (will take a little while to load) 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.

In your own words, briefly summarize what plagiarism is and how to avoid it:

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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 (third icon down on the left)
3. Click on Reading
4. Scroll down to Course-Related Materials and click on READ 100, J. Hanks.

J. Hanks; T. N. Smalley last rev. 3/09