Friday, November 9, 2012

The first week of the second quarter is complete.  Most of you had a little break, which I hope you enjoyed.  Sorry Joselyn, I know you had to be here for testing.  Next year, you might get an extra day off - well, the rumor is that you might not - sorry :(  In any case, I hope testing went quickly and that you did well.

The election is also complete!  I don't know about you, but I won't miss the continual advertisements, phone calls and emails.  I did have fun watching the results and was amazed how quickly they can determine the results.  What did you think of the election?

You will want to make sure your blog is complete.  Here is what you need:

• An embedded Animoto video (be sure you included a link in Moodle as well)
• An embedded Google Form asking your blog readers to provide input on your blog or to gather some data about your readers.  You need to ask at least three questions of your readers
• Your News Forum responses
• In two sentences summarize “The Art of Keyword Searches.”  
• Then try this:
• You received this letter from a friend.    Hi, I am a chef and a food blogger. Recently, I wanted to write about this really yummy French sandwich with tuna and peppers and anchovies and stuff called a Pom Mignon, or something like that. For the life of me, I don’t know precisely what it is called. I spent half an hour last night typing every possible spelling I could think of into Google, but could not find it. What do I do now?   Thank you,  L.  Given what you know about this problem, what query would you use to solve it?  What is the name of the sandwich?
• After watching “Word Order Matters” write about the three most important things you learned from this short video clip. 
• Compare the results for two variations of a query. Do the non-ad results for two variations differ from each other?   Which of the following searches result in different results?  Open two new tabs with Google search in each, so you can compare the following searches.
• [cars][the cars]
• [flower spider] [spider flower] 
• [Adobe Acrobat] [adobe acrobat]
• [who] [the who] [a who]
• [150 computer] [$150 computer]
• [% students paying off college loans] [students paying off college loans]
• Find Ms. Makovec on twitter?  Her twitter handle is makovect.  What search query did you use?
• And, as always, add a few sentences recapping your week.  Enjoy your weekend!