Effort in in-class activities (as well as participation in class discussion of assigned readings) counts for 25% of your grade. If you don't speak up in class on any given day, you will be expected to write a short post on the course blog (with a relevant question, insight, opinion, etc.) or write a useful comment on any other post on the course blog.
Finding Tools
Classroom Activity
Using AND, OR, and Parentheses in a Search You want to find articles that talk about novels or fiction that take place in Asia or are about Asia in some way. Using novels, fiction, and Asia as your keywords, there are two ways to enter your searches correctly and more than a few ways to do it wrongly.
Using Parenthesis with AND and OR Searches - Google Docs.pngClassroom activity using article by Bing Pan et al ("In Google We Trust: Users' Decisions on Rank, Position, and Relevance").
UPDATE (13 October 2011)
Here are the worksheets as completed by the 4 groups:
Google is making us stupid (or shallow or superficial)
No, Google isn't making us stupid (or shallow or superficial)
October 26 (Wednesday)
October 31 (Monday)
Calderone, Michael. Interview by Bob Garfield. "The Semantics of the 'Ground Zero Mosque." On the Media. WNYC, New York. 20 Aug. 2010. Web. 31 Aug. 2010.
Larger version of "controlled vocabulary" image
Full screen version of "World of Subscription Databases" slide presentation
In class activity
Classroom activity
Using any of the tools or guide below, create accurate MLA citations for the six items below. Record the citations in a post on the class blog (make sure you give your blog post a title that distinguishes it from those of your classmates).
Class activity
Write a blog post on your own and then work on a group one with two other classmates. Details on this activity can be found on this post on the blog.