Friday, January 11, 2013

The last full week of the semester and finals next week.  Time flies!  It has been my pleasure to be your instructor, and I hope you have found some tools that you'll be able to use in other settings.

Your blog post this week is three parts:

1. Your thoughts about the Web 2.0 tools your peers have shared so far.  Which have you found most useful?  Have you used any of them yet or before?  
2. News Forum - I have copied and pasted the text below.
3. A reflection of your week.

Have a relaxing weekend as we head into finals week!

The first video is "Search Foreign Pages in English".  Watch it and answer the following questions:

Please find the answer to this question: Apa warna pada bendera Indonesia?

 Red, white, and blue 

 Yellow and green 

 Red and green 

 Red and white

You are interested in learning more about castles in the Czech Republic.  However, you'd like the information from a page written in Czech.  How would you do a search like this?  What do you find?

The second video is called "Combining Search Methods".  Watch this short video and answer the following questions:

Which of these searches shows an effective use of multiple operators?

 [household spending site:org -site:edu] 

 [site:edu site:org household spending] 

 [site:census.gov filetype:pdf household spending] 

 [household spending site:edu OR org]

Write a question that could be answered by using multiple operators.  Your search query should include at least three operators.  Show how you would write the search query, and what the answer to your question is.