Lesson 4: Proquest
I looked up container gardening for my basic research. I found over 3505 results. I narrowed them down to 1807 by limiting my research to magazines. Again I am repeating, but there is a lot of information out there. I did find information on how to make my own potting soil and how to do containers. Will use this again when spring comes.
I then read a few blogs. Some are short and some are like writing a book. I was impressed by some of them, they are written by someone who blogs easily and are enjoyable to read.
I did the training for Proquest in the past. Many things have changed since then. I like Proquest the least of the electronic resources I have used. Perhaps I have too much happening at this time to give it enough attention.......I honestly do not know.........or maybe my brain is so full at this time that it is stuck in a time lapse. With lots of practice Proquest may flow smoothly and be easy to use. When I am the only one here some days, time is limited.
I looked through the periodicals in the publication tab. I searched simply for the word "communication". I then went to technical communication and looked at a Technical communication article. I do like the fact that all issues are listed and you can pull up and read any year you want. There are also articles like the one you are looking at that you can go to.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Lesson 3: The SIRS Discoverer
The SIRS Discoverer has an incredible amount of information. I liked the way articles were divided by newspaper, magazine, reference, graphic and webfind. The levels also make this sight very user friendly. I looked up pheasant and ended up finding an article in the Easy section, from a July 1995 issue of Cricket magazine. This article told about the two golden pheasants from King Louis XVI's aviary given to George Washington by his friend the Marquis de Lafayette. The birds died and were preserved and mounted by Charles W. Peale, a naturalist at that time. They are still in the Harvard Museum of Natural History today. (This was so interesting that I later went to Google to find a picture of the pheasants at the museum today.)
I selected South Korea as my country in "Country Facts" . Wow, what a huge amount of information in a quick to access area, anything I would need to know about South Korea from the present to ancient history was there.
I looked at the United States Historical map. You can pull up any decade in the United States and find pertinent facts for politics, religion, exploration and settlement, wars, current affairs, etc . It is mind boggling to see so much information at your fingertips. I only wish I had more time to pursue this.
In the SIRS Issues Researcher I looked up the Banned Books topic and read different pros and cons. I emailed a few of these articles to myself to pursue later.
In the Curriculum Pathfinders I looked at a few different learning areas for arithmetic. The Basketball math would be a fun interactive game for a child having problems in math. The visual hand on games and references are wonderful and inventive tools to make learning fun.
I selected South Korea as my country in "Country Facts" . Wow, what a huge amount of information in a quick to access area, anything I would need to know about South Korea from the present to ancient history was there.
I looked at the United States Historical map. You can pull up any decade in the United States and find pertinent facts for politics, religion, exploration and settlement, wars, current affairs, etc . It is mind boggling to see so much information at your fingertips. I only wish I had more time to pursue this.
In the SIRS Issues Researcher I looked up the Banned Books topic and read different pros and cons. I emailed a few of these articles to myself to pursue later.
In the Curriculum Pathfinders I looked at a few different learning areas for arithmetic. The Basketball math would be a fun interactive game for a child having problems in math. The visual hand on games and references are wonderful and inventive tools to make learning fun.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Lesson 2: Learning Express-Health careers
I have recommended the Learning Express many times to my patrons This is the first time I have entered it to pursue jobs and career choices. Very interesting to find out how much I do not know.
I pursued the health careers, nursing, and nursing assistant. It seems like this is a good choice for the future with jobs growing at a rate of 18.8 % through 2016.Even a CNA can make 25,000 to 31,000 a year.
In my distant past I did one and a half years of nursing in a hospital RN program. I took part of the biology exam for nursing entrance and really flubbed it! How much the mind forgets when it is not used and how things change! Science and biology were my favorite high school courses, but if I were to pursue this today I would need to spend hours with Learning Express. :)
I read (skimmed) the e-book that was there for health careers, that is where my stats came from. I am spending longer reading this course than blogging.
I pursued the health careers, nursing, and nursing assistant. It seems like this is a good choice for the future with jobs growing at a rate of 18.8 % through 2016.Even a CNA can make 25,000 to 31,000 a year.
In my distant past I did one and a half years of nursing in a hospital RN program. I took part of the biology exam for nursing entrance and really flubbed it! How much the mind forgets when it is not used and how things change! Science and biology were my favorite high school courses, but if I were to pursue this today I would need to spend hours with Learning Express. :)
I read (skimmed) the e-book that was there for health careers, that is where my stats came from. I am spending longer reading this course than blogging.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Lesson 2: Learning Express
I have recommended the Learning Express website to many people. I have dabbled in it here and there and found a remarkable variety of information. I tried a GED language test and found it very easy to use and navigate. This is an e-source that I have promoted many times to my patrons for ACT prep test and other sample test.
Gram has been sick and out of commission for awhile. I did a lot of work on this before becoming sick so I will blog and play catch up. I picked Spain as my country in part three of the World Book learning. I enjoyed reading many new facts about Spain. I think useful to my patrons would be the "In Brief" which condenses Spain's informatuion into an easy to see one page that includes general informatioin, land & climate, government, people and economy. The maps and the photos would also be of interest.As I searched further I found out about the Abrham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. This was all new to me and very interesting.
(copied and posted below from the World Book online reference center)
Abraham Lincoln Brigade is the collective name for the volunteers from the United States who participated in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The Spanish Civil War was a conflict between forces supporting Spain’s democratically elected government, known as Republicans or Loyalists, and conservative rebels known as Nationalists. During the war, volunteers from around the world formed the International Brigades—groups that traveled to Spain to fight alongside the Republicans against the Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco.
Most English-speaking volunteers served in one of the battalions of the XV International Brigade. These battalions eventually included the Abraham Lincoln and George Washington battalions, named for U.S. presidents, and the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion (the Mac-Paps), named for William Lyon Mackenzie and Louis Joseph Papineau, who led rebellions in 1837 seeking independence for parts of modern-day Canada. American and Canadian volunteers served in all three battalions and in some other units. Today, however, the Canadians who served in the war are often collectively called the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, just as the U.S. volunteers are collectively called the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Altogether, about 2,800 Americans and 1,300 Canadians fought in the war or served in medical and transportation units.
The Spanish Civil War broke out after military leaders launched a rebellion against Spain’s elected government in July 1936. In August, most European countries agreed not to intervene, fearing that the conflict would spread beyond Spain. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, however, violated the agreement and provided military aid, equipment, and troops to Franco’s army. In return, the Soviet Union provided the Republicans with aid and military equipment.
The Soviet Union sent only a small number of troops, but the Comintern—a Soviet-led Communist organization—recruited volunteers for the International Brigades. The International Brigades eventually consisted of more than 35,000 volunteers from more than 50 nations. Famous American writers and artists, including Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, and Paul Robeson, publicly supported the cause of the International Brigades.
Most of the volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade were members of the Communist Party, which viewed the Spanish Civil War as a struggle against fascism, an extreme form of authoritarian government. The first volunteers in the Lincoln Brigade arrived in Spain and began training in January 1937. They fought in battles at the Jarama River, at Brunete, in the Aragon region, and at Teruel. In the spring of 1938, as Franco’s forces broke through the Republican lines, the Lincoln Brigade became surrounded as it fought desperately in a series of skirmishes known as the Great Retreats. During the summer of 1938, the brigade participated in a major counterattack across the Ebro River.
Over the course of the war, about one-third of the U.S. volunteers were killed in action, along with nearly half the Canadians. In September 1938, the Republican government discontinued the use of International forces. Over the next several months, the surviving international volunteers returned to their home countries. The war ended with a Nationalist victory on April 1, 1939, and Franco ruled Spain as a dictator until his death in 1975.
Because of the Lincoln Brigade‘s link to Communism, the U.S. government viewed its survivors with suspicion during the years of the Cold War. Brigade veterans were denied jobs and faced harassment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But with the easing of Cold War tensions in the 1980’s, public opinion eventually shifted in favor of the Lincoln veterans. Memorials to the bravery and sacrifice of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteers have been erected in such cities as Madison, Wisconsin; Seattle; and San Francisco.
(copied and posted below from the World Book online reference center)
Abraham Lincoln Brigade is the collective name for the volunteers from the United States who participated in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The Spanish Civil War was a conflict between forces supporting Spain’s democratically elected government, known as Republicans or Loyalists, and conservative rebels known as Nationalists. During the war, volunteers from around the world formed the International Brigades—groups that traveled to Spain to fight alongside the Republicans against the Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco.
Most English-speaking volunteers served in one of the battalions of the XV International Brigade. These battalions eventually included the Abraham Lincoln and George Washington battalions, named for U.S. presidents, and the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion (the Mac-Paps), named for William Lyon Mackenzie and Louis Joseph Papineau, who led rebellions in 1837 seeking independence for parts of modern-day Canada. American and Canadian volunteers served in all three battalions and in some other units. Today, however, the Canadians who served in the war are often collectively called the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, just as the U.S. volunteers are collectively called the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Altogether, about 2,800 Americans and 1,300 Canadians fought in the war or served in medical and transportation units.
The Spanish Civil War broke out after military leaders launched a rebellion against Spain’s elected government in July 1936. In August, most European countries agreed not to intervene, fearing that the conflict would spread beyond Spain. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, however, violated the agreement and provided military aid, equipment, and troops to Franco’s army. In return, the Soviet Union provided the Republicans with aid and military equipment.
The Soviet Union sent only a small number of troops, but the Comintern—a Soviet-led Communist organization—recruited volunteers for the International Brigades. The International Brigades eventually consisted of more than 35,000 volunteers from more than 50 nations. Famous American writers and artists, including Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, and Paul Robeson, publicly supported the cause of the International Brigades.
Most of the volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade were members of the Communist Party, which viewed the Spanish Civil War as a struggle against fascism, an extreme form of authoritarian government. The first volunteers in the Lincoln Brigade arrived in Spain and began training in January 1937. They fought in battles at the Jarama River, at Brunete, in the Aragon region, and at Teruel. In the spring of 1938, as Franco’s forces broke through the Republican lines, the Lincoln Brigade became surrounded as it fought desperately in a series of skirmishes known as the Great Retreats. During the summer of 1938, the brigade participated in a major counterattack across the Ebro River.
Over the course of the war, about one-third of the U.S. volunteers were killed in action, along with nearly half the Canadians. In September 1938, the Republican government discontinued the use of International forces. Over the next several months, the surviving international volunteers returned to their home countries. The war ended with a Nationalist victory on April 1, 1939, and Franco ruled Spain as a dictator until his death in 1975.
Because of the Lincoln Brigade‘s link to Communism, the U.S. government viewed its survivors with suspicion during the years of the Cold War. Brigade veterans were denied jobs and faced harassment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But with the easing of Cold War tensions in the 1980’s, public opinion eventually shifted in favor of the Lincoln veterans. Memorials to the bravery and sacrifice of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteers have been erected in such cities as Madison, Wisconsin; Seattle; and San Francisco.
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