1.
I did a search for Neonatal Nursery Care, and
found that most of the results that came up were scholarly articles. These
would be a little advanced for elementary and middle school students, but
possibly could be used for higher levels of high school classes doing research.
I could also refine my search to find reports and magazine articles on my
topic, which would help give more information to use in a research paper. Each of
the articles also give a link to the citation and abstract for the article, so
a student could see if this is information they could use without having to
read a lengthy article.
2.
I commented on the “Faith Library” blog – because
it was the first one listed and I thought maybe most people would skip the
first one. I also commented on Mike Sanders’ blog. His blog post for this
lesson was interesting, as he tried to do it with voice recognition software.
3.
First I tried to search for Technology
Integration and got zero results. So, I changed the search to find the subject “Technology
Integration”. Still I had no luck. I changed my topic to just “technology”,
which brought up various different kinds of technology – not necessarily
pertaining to education or technology integration in classrooms. I tried
another search for “Computer Education” in the title, and found only 2 results –
neither of which would be useful in finding information about technology
integration in classrooms. Even in my Doctoral studies, I was never satisfied
with ProQuest for finding information I needed. I think it is too broad, and
doesn’t refine searches as easily as other sites. The last search I did was
with “Computer Education” in the subject and found 14 results. Many of these
could be useful in my research. I think if I were to use ProQuest for my
research, I would have to take advantage of the feature that saves your search results
for you. This way when you are doing various searches, you are able to go back
and easily access the information you found useful.
Hi, Tolliver, you are right--this is for HS and up. In school, we recommend starting with SIRS Issues Researcher, and then if the student needs more, going to ProQuest. You are also right that it is very broad--and that's why I love it. It can, however, take some time to tweak the search just right. The publications tab searches words in publication titles and is the index to which journals are in ProQuest. Sorry you didn't have more luck with that, but for a lot of people it is a good way to do professional reading. Thanks for your work and your comments!
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