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INTD 203 Social Foundations of American Education FALL 2006 Professor Granger
ACTIVITY
Comparison… Web site Search for “Classroom management”. What kind of results do you get back? (i.e. are they full-text journal articles, web pages, etc.)
What are the differences between the two search “interfaces’?
Deep Web database or Surface web?
WHY?
1. ERIC
-Go to the Library web site http://library.geneseo.edu -Find QUICKSEARCH ‡ Click on the tab marked “Databases” -Type “ERIC” in the search box. -Click on the first link for ERIC
2. Ask.com http://search.ask.com/
INTD 203 Social Foundations of American Education FALL 2006 Professor Granger
ACTIVITY
Exercise Steps taken… How many results?
How would you make the search better?
- Find any scholarly article on the educational theorist John Dewey. Use any library database you think will work. Where would you go to find a list of relevant journal databases as you start the search? (Make sure to write the database you used and list your steps in the next column ‡)
- Next, find a scholarly journal article about the theories of Lev Vygotsky. Use ERIC to find the article. (Make sure to list the steps you took to get to ERIC in the next column ‡ )
- Find a newspaper article on the topic of school vouchers. Use Lexis-Nexis Academic and look for New York state newspapers. (Make sure to list the steps it takes to get to Lexis-Nexis from the library homepage ‡ )
- Go to http://library.uncg.edu/news/ and find your hometown newspaper (or, the closest city/town). Search their website for an article on the topic of school budgets. List : -newspaper title -URL -title of the article ALL in the second column instead of “Steps taken” ‡
