Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Final Exam

went to library, find, iris and other tutorials, Academic Search, brought me to Ebsco host, typed in title, first article, then find it, then clicked on link for deep

For open web, simply typed in title with Wall Street Journal in google which brought me to directly to the article on the Wall Street Journal website.
Authority:
Clay didn't appear to have any degrees to give him academic authority and did not cite anyone. It appeared to be a comment piece with a little well known info about the Gutenberg press thrown in with lots of personal opinions
Source:
while I was able to find it in ProQuest and it was in the Wall Street Journal, which are reputable, I didn't find anything else that would show me this was authoritative. I did a search on him as well and couldn't really find anything.

Purpose:
The purpose was to make the reader think about how information sharing is affecting society. His opinion seems to be maybe too many people thought it would be bad and likens it to when the press first came on the scene some people wrote things that were not edifying and leaned toward pornography

Evenness:
It was a comment that didn't really seem to lean to too many people thought it would be bad (the internet). Written in June 4, 2010

Coverage:
Since it was 1283 words, it didn't go terribly deep. Just an overview of his opinion.

Timeliness: The way it was written, it could have been written today or a couple of years ago. It is still relevant.

He gives an opinion that the past was not golden or the present as tawdry as the pessimist think. He feels the internet has actually restored us to reading and writing because we were just watching different strokes before. For myself, I find that untrue. I actually read more, but again, I feel what he had to say was an opinion with a little well known fact.
He also claims that people think every time we make any strides in new media it will make young people stupid. I guess it depends on if they were stupid before, so maybe what it really does is bring their stupidity to the forefront, or their intelligence, for the world to see. The question would be, what are they doing with it?
He says that we had erotic novels 100 years before scientific journals. I don't know what that was based on because there are no citings. Personally, I thought there were philosophers writing away on ideas that bordered on the scientific, but due to limited time, I can't research it.
Personally, he sounds like he thinks the majority of society thinks this internet thing is bad. I really don't understand where he gets that from. Being older, I know very few people that think that way, but maybe it depends on who you hang out with and what they do with it.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

unit 9

http://www.twoplayfulotters.com/students/Khiland.html

Here is mine. I changed some color fonts and put my name in the title. I also put things on the list. As far as my understanding goes, I don't know. It was a little confusing and I had to keep trying and trying to get it to upload. Its hard for me to get much out of it when I couldn't figure it out. I don't know what I would use it for but I suppose if I had to, I would maybe recognize it enough to upload it.
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Thursday, December 1, 2011

AB K.hiland, unit 9

I am finding the directions for this confusing and do not see the example I thought were supposed to be posted.
However I looked at About.com written by Alison Doyle who appears to be an authority who has written books and worked in the field for many years. Alison holds a bachelor's degree from Indiana University and has completed several years of employee benefit and information technology coursework. It is a 28 page article and appears to have plenty of coverage. I do not see any advertisements and the purpose seems to be solely to help people find jobs on the internet. I used google  and entered "jobs and searching online"

In ProQuest, I found and article Finding a job in the Internet Age put out by the University of North Carolina press. There are charts and graphs and a lot of footnotes. It was written by Christine Fountain from the University of Washington. While it was written in 2005, much of the info came from sources like Harvard, and the American Journal of Sociology and appear to be relevant. The purpose is to inform readers on finding jobs via the internet. Here again, plenty of coverage

The .gov was http://www.bls.gov/oco/oco20042.htm on job search methods. I used the same search words. It was written by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was last updated December 17, 2009. The main purpose is to inform on job searching and has a mission and vision statement. I can't find who the actual author was or any citations. There are no advertisements. There was minimal coverage and seemed to be the least helpful.


.org was http://www.job-hunt.org/ with links to 18375 websites, so it certainly has no shortage of coverage, employers and resources. The purpose of the Job-Hunt.Org Web site is to provide the most comprehensive listing of employer recruiting page links, the best Internet-accessible legitimate job-search resources and services on the Web, and the best and most up-to-date advice from genuine job search and career experts.  From the beginning in 1998, the focus is on avoiding scams and protecting job seeker privacy. It was last updated 28 November 2011and has no advertising. It has the obvious purpose of helping people find work. It had the following markings to look for:

This last one seemed to be like a one stop shopping place for all your job searching needs although, the first one looks like a good article to read as well.
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