Blog #3

Hi class, I hope everything is going well for every one.
The article, Oh the Changes We’ve Seen, made me think back about the first time I used a computer and how the use of them is changing in schools. On page four it talks about the computer programs that were available for student to work on as a group such as The Factory and Where in the World Is Carmen Electra, I remember going to the computer labs in Elementary and playing games. Now I see children at elementary schools typing and doing more work than I did at that age.

This week I learned helpful ways to search for information. Before this assignment, I would usually go directly to Google and just type in what I was looking for. Now that I realize there was a lot of time wasted looking though the sites found which in most cases did not help me. The four NETS for better searching was a great exercise that helped me figure out how I can go about looking for what I really need. I though it was interesting to see the difference in the amount of results I would get when I would type in a word in the “with all” category and then minimize the search by adding another word to the “with out” category. The net that I thought was really interesting was the Trim Back the URL. I never really thought of doing that before this week’s assignment. It has happened to me that I get the wrong URL but I never knew that I could trim back that same wrong URL to obtain information that could guide me to what I am looking for.