In this section I found several things interesting. The first would be that I have been a student at Clark College off and on for about 2 years yet had not heard about Gale Virtual Reference Library. I know that I will find it very helpful in not only this class but in many of my future classes as well.
The second thing I found interesting was in the forum. While reading what the other students had posted about how they find information, a majority of the people used Google. I am a Google user as well but didn't realize how many other people did as well.
I felt this assignment was mainly to help the students see the different sources they can find and also to give them an intro to citation. I found it helpful to refresh my current knowledge and to remind me to be careful about the sources I am looking at.
Hi, Jaquelin:
ReplyDeleteGVRL is a great resource and it can help provide background information and keywords for developing your research question. Plus, it's more reliable, credible then Wikipedia and usually a bit easier to focus. I like how GVRL includes history, politics, economics, gender studies and you can select an article on your topic in any of these areas to focus your topic. Plus all the subject encyclopedias in GVRL are written by experts/scholars in that area and while Wikipedia is generally a good place to start, you don't really know much about the authors of the articles.
Google is ubiquitous, as one student mentioned, he used to have to research at a library for hours to find information and now you just type a few words into a search box, pretty amazing transformation.
Regards,
Andrea