Final Exam WOOHOOOOO!!!

Topic:
Does the expansion of ebook options impact how much people read?

Search Statement:
expan* AND ebook* AND read*

Deep Web Resource:
I used Academic Search Premier which is funded by EBSCOhost. It is a deep web database that is paid for by Clark Community College for its students to use. I input my boolean search statement (listed above) in the search box as is, and I got 141 results. I then shrunk my results by lookin solely at trade publications and got 65 results. The first listed article's abstract was discussed how in California there was an effort made to assemble a team that was required to investigate how to increase the amount of ebooks available so that there would be more of an oppurtunity for people to read.
Citation:

          Breitbach, William, and Joy E. Lambert. "Patron-Driven Ebook Acquisition." Computers In Libraries 31.6 (2011): 17-20. Academic Search Premier. Web. 10 Dec. 2012.

Open Web Resource:

I used Goole as my free open web search engine. When I first input the same statement, most every result was a website that had ebooks or an ebook themselves. This is not what i wanted so I added "article" to the end of my statement. This also was not great but it did have some articles about ebooks.

Citation:

          Swisher, Kara. "In Major Expansion, Kno Adds K-12 to Digital Education Platform (Video)." AllThingsD. Dow Jones and Company, 6 Aug. 2012. Web. 10 Dec. 2012.

Evaluation:

DWR:

Authority. There are multiple authors which is a good sign. They are both staff of the California State Universities Library.

Sources. The article is pulled from a Trade publication called Computers in Libraries.
Purpose. To inform not persuade so there is no bias
Eveness. It has no bias so is clearly facts and not opinion
Coverage. Provides details and charts/graphs to enhance the article.
Timliness. It is fairly current published in July of 2011

OWR

Authority. A single author whose credentials consist of works for The Wall Street Journal and producing All Things Digital, which is an anual conference about technology today.

Sources. It is an online article on allthingsd.com
Purpose. Inform about the growing use of technology in today's public school system.
Eveness. You can tell there is feelings and interest about this subject because there is only one author. She writes with a little excitement/passion and a litte bias.
Coverage. It is lengthy and goes into detail, but is still interesting to a reader.
Timliness. It is published August 6th of 2012, so is very current.

Article Review on the Open Web Article:

          The author has clearly done her homework. She has shown that the use of ebooks and technology for students is very important. it is cost effective because the online textbooks cost about 9.99 instead of the overpriced books that need to be renewed every so and so years, which are currently being used.

          There are companies such as Google and Apple who have switched up their system to help provide a system that is in complete support of education. It is a new and different time for electronic books and the market for other educational tools.

          Not just ebooks but other parts of technology are bettering education because students can now save files and notes so easily and take them wherever they need to go, with the right supplies. The amount of ebooks available has dramatically expanded and students can easily have all of their books ready to be read on one small tablet.

          All in all, the use of technology is growing and is so helpful to students in bettering their education.

Unit 10 - The Internet and the World Wide Web

Here is the link to my website.

http://twoplayfulotters.com/student/bdillon.html

Wow!!! that was pretty cool. In order to complete this, I located the file information of a similar website and copied it's same material. My web page looks the same as the example except all the words are different because i changed them. I didn't touch any off the formatting of the site like the font and color and size. After doing that, i saved the file information as a file on my computer just as if I were to make a word document. I wasn't able to use word for this because word has set standards and formatting things that would not line up to that of the other examples. Then i was able to open it up on a web browser, but only as a file because it was just on the computer I was using. Finally I used a website making program called Filezilla that aloud me to upload a file from my desktop and put it onto the open web for others to see.