Part 10, Creating a website

 Summary

This was a good assignment to help me understand the bare essentials of the HTML coding, I will probably never be a coder at anytime in my life but it was fun pushing my computer skills, to the next level.  I have enjoyed learning more skills on the databases and I think it will help me in my continued education. Understanding how to research and what is credible out there is very important this day and age because we are getting more information thrown at us then any generation that came before us.

Class Final

1^st Source: Distand, M. (2011). The Future of Print: The Book. Feliciter, 57(5) 182-184

I went to the library website and went into Ebsco and search the full title and the text pulled up. It took me all of 30 seconds with my newly discovered knowledge of databases.

A: He is a Director of Libraries in Alberta; I would say he is pretty knowledgeable on the printed word.

S: This is a periodical that is put out by the library association in Canada.

P: News of the library association, its main purpose is to inform.

E: I think he was very even on presenting the facts.

C: It hit all the high points, with enough extra interesting fun facts to keep me reading.

T: The article was publish in October (2011) so it is fairly current.

2^nd Source: Morrison, E (2011, August 22). Are books dead, and can authors survive? The Guardian

I went onto google searched the title in its entirety,  and it was the first thing that popped up, I verified that is was the right guy and it was.

A: He is an award winning author, and he has published 3 novels.

S: The Guardian is a daily newspaper in Britain

P: The article was written to inform the public about the potential crisis writer’s face

E: I thought that he was not very even he presented the article in a way that was slanted in writers favor.

T: Published August 2011

Summary-

I really enjoyed the first article The future of Print: The book.  I thought that it was a very well written piece that seemed to go straight down the middle for the most part. I liked that it wasn’t dry and it kept you wanting to read. I liked how he presented his facts. I particularly liked the part

 “After Amazon unwittingly sold early Kindle owners a title for which it lack legal rights, its purchasers discovered it deleted by remote control. Ironically, the confiscated e-book was Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.”

I also liked how he made the argument that the books and e-books can co-exist.  He mentioned in the article that “E-books will undoubtedly dominate the market for large reference books, such as encyclopedias, and anything else that is regularly revised and updated, as well as for scholarly journals, if not also popular magazines.”  I like the idea that the two can both be utilized. I hate the thought of telling my kids back in my day, when we had books.

I did not care for the second article, and after doing research, knowing he is an author his dislike of what the publishing companies it makes a lot of sense. The thing is that of course the jobs that were of yesterday have faded out, there are a lot of the factory jobs and other jobs that have been retired due to the advancements in technology. Maybe there won’t be highly paid writers in the future, but history shows us that there are not many in the past either. Also even if the printed work is not being done as much doesn’t mean there will be a decline in reading, I think if anything people will read more.

Research Journal Part 9: Finding information on the Open Web

Search Topic-Internet Addiction

Search 1- 

a) used google

b) internet addiction site:.com

c) There is no author

Title of website- netaddiction.com

Title of article- Compulsive searching

Author-Dr. Kimberly Young 

Date: Tuesday, 15 March 

Access Date July 31, 2012

url: http://www.netaddiction.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=85

Why is this credible?

It is written by a doctor, it is a fairly recent article regarding, symptoms and different types of internet addictions, also this site has been up since 2005, so I feel like they have some knowledge with internet addiction.

Search 2-

a) used yahoo

b) symptoms of internet addiction site:.gov

c) No Author

Title of website- US Nation Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

Title of article- Internet addiction: New-age diagnosis or symptoms of age-old problem?

Author-Roger Collier 

Date: October 27, 2009 

Access Date: July 31, 2012

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2764750/

Why is this credible?

Doing further research in the author he has done tons of articles on internet addiction. I tend to be more trusting of government sites only because they have a reputation to uphold.

Search 3- 

a) used bing

b) symptoms of internet addiction site:.org

c) There is no author

Title of website- helpguide.org

Title of article- Internet and Computer Addition signs, symptoms, and treatment

Author-Joanna Saisan, M.S.W., Melinda Smith, M.A., Lawrence Robison, and Jeanne Segal Ph.D

Date: Jun 2012 

Access Date July 31, 2012

url: http://www.helpguide.org/mental/internet_cybersex_addiction.htm

Why is this credible?

It is written by a doctor, it is not very old, it is a source for information, it doesn’t seem to have bias.

Search 4- 

a) used google

b) internet addiction site:.edu

c) There is no author

Title of website- Stanford School of Medicine

Title of article- Internet Addiction: Stanford study seeks to define whether its a problem

Author-Lorrin Koran MD

Date: 10/17/2006

Access Date July 31, 2012

url: http://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2006/october/internet.html

Why is this credible?

It is published on the Stanford school of medicines website, they are known to be pretty reputable. It is written by a medical doctor, the only problem with it, is it is a little out of date.

Summary:

 If you search diligently on the open web you can find good credible sources for your research the trick is to use your skills of reason, we probably have used A.S.P.E.C.T or something to that effect without knowing it because we use reasoning we have learned over the course of our lives to help decipher the credibility or a source.  I use this when I am doing research and have been using it for a number of years, this class however has helped me fine tune these skills. I found it relatively easy to locate the type of sites I wanted to use in my research