Daily Log

Friday, October 15

We continued our investigation of search engine techniques, focusing especially on ways of enlarging and narrowing searches in pursuit of the ideal goal: excluding all irrelevant sites without excluding any relevant ones.  Search terms which walk the line between overly narrow and overly broad, and combinations of broader and narrower searches were recommended. Intelligent combinations of operators (e.g., quotation marks and minuses) were modelled for students.

Students received a  second handout (click here) on internet research -- this one covering ways to evaluate resources we find -- the reading of which was added to the homework for Monday.

Students were reminded to be working on the vocabulary assignment.

HW due Monday:
Read Chapters 7 and 8 of Frederick Douglass.
Read the handout on evaluating internet resources.

HW due Wednesday:
First vocabulary assignment, covering Chapters I-VIII of Douglass's Narrative.  Quiz over the vocab words.