Mod 4

I this module we learned alot about email and social netowrking. This is information which I was aware of already. I spend much more time on this module then the last one. I realized after my late assignments I needed to be more devoted to my classes.
I like that I was familiar which the majority of information in this mod. I am not a blogger so I did learn about that. I didn't realize that there are so many. I couldn't believe that there were several blogs about one certain subject e.g.cooking, business, fine art. It was interesting to go through the blogs and read others thoughts and feelings on issues. I highly enjoyed the assignment on microblogging. It reminded me why I don't use such sites as twitter. The test was a little harded than I would have thought because of all the terms. Even though I knew about e-mail and social networks, I didn't know certain terms.

FOUR NEW TERMS

Stop Words- These are words such as is, what, where, and how that search engines ignore.
Drilling Down- This is when you click on and visit different links thatare subtopics of what your searching.
Boolean Operators- Using small words such as and, not, and or can change your search results. I found this one interesting because I never thought to put "not" in a search inquiry.
Cyber Bullying- A new trend where middle school and high school students are being bullyed over the internet.

Module 3

Module 3 is one that I am not proud of. First off, I misread the course calendar and didn’t get my discussion post on time. Then I tried to do my Web Lab on searching the NCCC library website and my code wouldn’t work. I tried to contact my teacher via email but I didn’t get a response (you must have not seen it). Then I contacted the NCCC library and they told me that I had to go to campus to first set up the number. I didn’t end up making it because of the holiday weekend so now I get two Zeros for the module. I was going to throw my hands in the air and take a huge zero for the mod by not during my journal but that wouldn’t be very smart or responsible.

Even though I didn’t complete the majority of the assignments I did learn a few things. I learned to check date more careful and write them down. I also learned that I shouldn’t wait till a few days before the assignment is due to ask questions.  To be honest I knew all of this and somehow just didn’t follow through with how I normally tackle assignments.

I did read the assigned chapter (3) in the book and the lectures. I learned the importance of citing web sources in your papers. If you don’t cite your sources it could be considered plagiarism. Plagiarism is very serious. I believe the rules at my school is get caught once it’s a zero, get caught twice and you are kicked out of the class. I really don’t need to worry about this because I don’t do it. All a teacher has to do is search the web (which was also covered in Ch. 3). It is also important to know how to search the web so you can receive but information on the subject you are researching.

FOUR NEW WORDS

Deep Web- Didn’t know another name for the deep web was invisible web

Meta Search Engine- This is a major search engine that links other search engines together giving you a hits on what you are looking for.

Stop Words- These are words that are ignored in search engines. Examples: AND, WHAT, HOW, ABOUT, IS THE

Stop Words and Search Engines- Stop Words are not used in search engines because the words fill up disk space and the results are much slower without omitting them