This will be the last post I make for the Spring 2008 semester. I wish all of you well in all your endeavors. I will be here to help you along your studies at ASA.
Remember if you need any help with your research papers please ask me. Also, frequent your local library to see what’s shaking.
Please be advised if you received an Incomplete you have two weeks to make up the work. Have a nice break and good luck!
I need each and every student’s working email addresses. We are going forward with electronic online surveys for the MS Self Study and we need this information to get a larger survey sample. Please e-mail your address in the subject.
Attached is the review sheet for final exam.
Exam dates will be Wednesday May 21 and Thursday May 22.
It will be open notes; book and you may use the blog.
Exam is two parts. Part one asks you to answer the question in one sentence. Part two asks you define various concepts. There will be an extra credit assignment if you want to raise your grade after you take the final exam.
Many of you working on this semester’s lab have some trouble with the second question This question is based on the first; which asks a keyword search, using words or phrases describing how the human genome works. This means that you “browse through your results list and choose” a book explaining “how the human genome works.” Finding the subject means looking at a database subject. You open the books full record and look for “subject field, and note the terms used.”
“Subject searching generally produces specific results.” As we learned in class a subject is authorative term the database uses to index various articles, which fall under topic. Previously collected materials; “you must map your concepts” topic to keyword “to the subject vocabulary used by the database.” Subject searching is indexing just like at the back of a text book. Searching for words that mean what you are looking for. Either looking through index to find the subject given, or you are clicking on a subject presented to you, you need to take a subject heading not type it.
The Information Navigator. 06 Feb. 2008. MIT Libraraies. Accessed on 16 May 2008. < http://libraries.mit.edu/tutorials/general/subjectsearching.html>
Searching 101 > Overview – Key Ideas.2007. Ohio State University Library. Accessed on 16 May 2008.
<http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/les4>
Some students began asking me if I had a sample project demonstrating format. Here is one I made on the topic of information literacy. I included a thesis, bibliography and annotations or summary of why I used particular sources.
This semesters topic is: The Human Genome
Remember you need to finish this lab in order to get credit for the class.
spring_2008_information_literacy_competency_lab1
The darknet and deep web are totally different. Darknets “a collection of networks, groups of computers connected together allowing each other to share digital content.” Traditionally e-mail or files saved on disks physically delivered to another person was the only way to send information from one computer to another. Darknet allows users to upload items on a server directly received from peer to peer. “The vast, gathering, lawless economy of shared music, movies, television shows, games, software rivals the products and services of the entertainment companies.” Darknet can be a great way to share information, and develop more effective literacies. The most popular aspect of the darknet is Gnutella, its clients are:
BearShare
Gnucleus
LimeWire
Morpheus
WinMX
XoloX
I’m sure one of these may sound familiar. When you request a song or video or any other piece of information software installed on your computer seeks other computers and networks to find that one that has what you have requested. “There is no central database” all information is not stored and fenced in. There is no one spider or bot that digs, no one computer alone “knows all of the files available on the Gnutella network.” Working together using software installed on your computer, “all of the machines on network tell each other about available files using a distributed query approach.” Unlike Napstar, which stored all its information content in a central database with a search engine “this is why technically there is not copyright infringement” no one main source allows it and it evades copyright, “no central database that can be shut down.” “Instead Gnutella works between peers” a connection between you and the person you are getting information from just like a telephone conversation. Copyright allows sharing copyrighted stuff between “friends.”[1]
However, there are some concerns with the darkweb; first is “free riding” when someone only takes information and puts nothing up and the next is “lack of anonymity.” Attacks are another threat that have not yet been fully assessed. Lack of anonymity is one of my all time greatest fears. Even thought you can firewall I still have irrational fears of sneaks n’ peaks, especially even now with the US PATRIOT Act allowing this to occur at any time and with out a warrant. With the internet it’s like the street. Don’t do anything that you normally wouldn’t do in the streets of our fair city.
Immediately after learning exactly what it was you were doing while you were downloading those pop songs, you wanted to learn how you could start to share what you have. This is wonderful, the spirit of freedom begin by “uploading.” If you would like to discuss this more we can set up a time to chat tell me next week.
JD Lasica. Concepts: Darknet. . Mar 3, 2008. Darknet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation. 9 May 2008. <http://www.darknet.com/2005/05/concept_darknet.html>
Brain, Marshall. “How Gnutella Works.” 23 July 2002. HowStuffWorks.com. 09 May 2008. <http://computer.howstuffworks.com/file-sharing.htm>
Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman. The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution. 2002. Microsoft Corporation. 9 May 2008. <http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf>
[1] However, the darknet as a whole was never under significant legal threat. Reasons may have included its limited commercial impact and the protection from legal surveillance afforded by sharing amongst friends.
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Use CARRDSS to evaluate your sources |
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| C | REDIBILITY : Who is the author? What are his or her credentials? |
| A | CCURACY: Can facts, statistics, or other information be verified through other sources? Based on your knowledge, does the information seem accurate? |
| R | ELIABILITY: Does the source present a particular view or bias? |
| R | ELEVANCE: Does this information directly support my hypothesis/thesis or help to answer my question? |
| D | ATE: When was this information created? When was it revised? Are these dates meaningful in terms of the subject matter? |
| S | OURCES BEHIND THE TEXT: Did the author use reliable, credible sources? |
| S | COPE: Does this source address my hypothesis/thesis/question in a comprehensive or peripheral way? Is it a scholarly or popular treatment? |
Use CARRDSS to evaluate your sources. 5 May 2008
Springfield Township High School. 6 May 2008
http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/carrdss.html
