I cant believe this is my last assignment and I'm about to finish my first college class already. This class has taught me a lot that would be knowledgeable for me to use in the future. With all the information I learned I feel like I'm going to use some and ignore some.  Something I can honestly say I want to use and will make and effort to take advantage of is using the books. There are so many books in this library and you can take them out and pretty much keep most of them as long as you want, unless there's a need from someone else. I can see myself using the library website for this reason and for asking librarians questions. The website makes it very easy to find a librarian and ask questions in areas you are struggling with. Now for the stuff I think I'm not going to use as much. I'm not going to lie and say "yeah, everything was great I'm gonna use all of it all the time." I don't think I am going to use the database. While doing the projects I found it hard to find good places to get info and some pages you clicked on wouldn't even load. I definitely will use Google over the library databases and search engines. Google is just a lot easier to use and find what you are looking for. Overall, I'm glad I picked this as my seminar class with two teachers that knew how to keep the class interested. Sorry for posting it a day late, I forgot to do it yesterday.

It was another good week in class. One thing I learned is websites like twitter and Facebook can be used as a media device and a way to keep up with current events. Of course Its not always going to help you. I would say these cites are like Wikipedia. You have many people that try to spread rumors and wright things that aren't true. But then you have ways to get the right info by following the right people so you know what you read is legit. The best thing of the week was exploring the Media Commons. We took a nice little field trip to the media part of the library and it was so cool. I forget his name but we had a guy come and explain to us how to use it. There are two great rooms where you can film videos and the process is so easy. Stopping and playing is so easy and seems like a great fun way to do group projects. The only problem might be getting a time to  use it. You have to schedule a time to use the room and sometimes there is a great demand. I don't really have any questions this week, I think I'm starting to understand the library well. I definitely plan on using the video rooms in the future and I can honestly say this was the most informative week for me. I learned a lot and hope to make things easy for me in the future.   

I think what we learned in class this week was probably the most interesting information so far in this class. The most interesting part in my opinion being the popular vs. scholarly sources. Of coarse when your writing a paper you would like to use scholarly sources. I found it interesting that there are scholarly vs popular in almost everything. Like when people are trying to make a movie. When it comes to books and websites you can tell the difference most of the time but it could take some time. Popular sources are there to draw you in, they grab your attention much more then the scholarly sources and it could be hard to discard them. Something else we learned is more on the books and how to take them out. This last week actually helped a lot with that and I fell like I would be able to find where a book is and would be able to retrieve it. It just may take a while to navigate to the right spot in the library. We also then talked about how some of the proper ways to cite things are so you give people that credit for their ideas and don't get accused of plagiarism. All of these concepts that were taught this week will help me get through college assignments more easily and with less of a worry about plagiarism. I will have a better understanding of not being drawn in by the popular sources. My one question for the week would be about the project. The three projects are all due in the upcoming weeks. I would just like to know more on how to get started and form some good papers. 

                      I've learned a lot this past week in class. First off, I became better aware of the libraries website in a huge way. This website has so many different places you can go to it just takes practice to learn where all the links go. I know I will just keep getting better with this as class goes on and were on the website. I learned a little bit on why Wikipedia can be a bad source. I always had people tell me not to use, but now I see that the websites at the bottom of the page aren't always legit. Wikipedia has never failed me but I can see how bad information can be posted to this website. I learned a lot about how you can tell a page is good for what your doing. It seems so obvious, but I never thought of searching the author's name. All you have to do is search the authors name and see if they have any relations to your subject of research. I now know all the different positions you can find the authors name or the date. All of this information will help me because sometimes its hard to find the author or the date. Now when I'm doing a bibliography or works sited page, I can easily get everything I need. Having a better understanding of finding legit sources will also help a great deal, it will make searching a lot easier and give me a lot more information to work with.

         A question I would like to ask is based on the same one from last week. How do you find books in the library and how do you use the website? These are two things that I am still experiencing confusion with and would like to learn more about because I know how helpful they can be once mastered. Sidenote- I get why Wikipedia can be bad but I don't get why you shouldn't use. In high school I would get most of my information from here and it never failed on me.       

week one blog

       I guess the first thing I learned is this class was how to make a blogger account. I never used my gmail account for anything but checking email, so I didn't know how to do this. On to the real stuff. The first day of class wasn't that big, we just went over what the class was going to be like in the upcoming month. On Thursday, however, we went through a lot of things and I'll try my best to summarize what I remember. Thursday was a very informative class where the main objective was to become better researchers. We all know and get frustrated when we try to find something and millions of pages come up, most of which not having any relevance to your topic of interest. The libraries website proves to be a very good source to do research, weather it be by book or website. I can use the research methods taught in this class to make things much easier for me to find, and get myself much better information. Though I learned a lot in the first class, there are still many things that are vague to me. The library website is a very informative site, which can also be bad for first time users, with many links to press and many different pages to go to. If I would pick one thing that I learned it would be that I am more aware of how to narrow down searches and find trustworthy websites easier. There are a few things that were taught that I would like to learn more about. For one, I am still confused about all the different links you can go to on one page and than even more links on the next page. There is still one question I have where I saw major confusion in the head. How do you look for books? This was showed but I am so confused on how you have to type stuff in to look for it and then a bunch of different sources come up. When We were in class, it just didn't seem like it helped that much.