Mrs. Price's Class Project: Current Events

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Mrs. Price's Class Project: Current Events

How not to get "lost in (cyber) space" while doing your research...

For your search, I suggest that you remember to use a “power search” using the + sign and/or – (minus) sign to limit the “hits” that you get. You will get better at searching with practice. Some search engines require that you use the limiters/extenders "and", "not", "or" instead of the "+" and "-" signs.

Try using http://www.dogpile.com as a search enging if you haven't tried it before. I like it since it gives you some other suggestions of how to search for your topic.

EXAMPLE OF A SEARCH THAT YOU MAY USE:

Death + penalty + viewpoints

Gun + control + viewpoint

Death + penalty

Etc.

You may also make a similar search in the OPAC (card catalog) in our library or in the public library to obtain print sources.

And, if you have a Palm Springs Library Card number you can search on their website which is linked to: http://www.palmspringshs.com If you live near Cathedral City or Thousand Palms Public Libraries, you may access their websites and databases from the palmspringhs site if you look under: “Public Library Connections.”

We will look at this site together during orientation.

Remember to look at print resources such as newspapers, magazines, pamphlets etc.

Citations are also an important part of research since you will need to have a bibliography and/or works cited page. Use as many helper slips in the red baskets as you need.

Newseum
Displays front pages from all over the
world and you can find links to the newspaper's website if you want to.
http://www.newseum.org/

Links to the News

A resource for researching current and older news topics, including many seasonally appropriate topics. The site puts together categorized links to Web resources on such diverse subjects as international relations, computer viruses, copyright issues, airline safety, the economy, the Olympic Games, and much more. The collection of topics goes back to January 1995. From the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

Current World News: Wired.com -
Today's business, culture, technology, politics, and world news.

http://directory.google.com/Top/News/Breaking_News/

http://www.bbc.com

When searching this site, remember that it is British and the date is posted differently. You will be looking at: day/month/year ex. 23/1/05 Which is different than how we post dates in the United States of America.

Use the search "current events" and try each of the following:

"ALL of the BBC" How many hits do you get?

"Results of BBC News" How many hits do you get?

"the Web" How many hits do you get?

There is quite a difference!!!!

http://www.cnn.com

Use the search "current events" and choose the cnn.com not the web. Notice the date next to the article to see how current the article is.

Wikipedia: Current events
Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia's article on 'Current events'

Information Please

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005971.html