Nate’s Weblog

We had our class presentations today.  I felt mine and Drew’s was good we had a decent presentation I thought.  I didn’t think I was very nervous but it seemed as though Drew was a little scared.  haha  I liked seeing how all the other groups did their presentations and how diverse they were.  Everyone seemed to do it a little different.  We were one of the only ones that didn’t have a power point to go along with it but I don’t think that was a big part of it.  I felt that ours was more directed toward the audience rather than looking at the power point and reading off of it.  We read and talked toward the class, although it didn’t take up the whole amount of time we managed to throw a little extra in there to squeeze by.  I thought all the groups did a good job of presenting their presentations and they all seem to know what they were talking about.  All in all it was a good day in LIB 103 and we accomplished a lot.  I also seemed to learn a lot by doing these searches for this project myself and seeing other groups actually do the searches on the different databases.  Now I see that all these databases are much different and they is a lot of information out there about any topic the question is where do you find what you are looking for and I think I am ready for that.

I have noticed lately and over the past few years that the news has not been showing many deaths or even talking about the deaths of our soldiers.  We have been censoring things such as the bombings and our troops running through towns and shooting people just because they look threatening.  You know all this stuff happens we just are not shown these things they choose what we see.  The military can choose not to send a reporter to ride along with an important to mission because ti may compromise our position or our plans.  One main reason the news has been censoring its broadcast is because of the military will not let them do stories on certain things and also the fact that if a soldier were to die in Iraq and they put that on the news it may be seen by the family before they are even told that their son has died in the war.  We must be very careful of what is put on the news.  Iraq can also use this information as we talked earlier to put on Youtube and other forum sites of them killing our troops and letting the American families see what they are doing to our military personnel.  I really thing this is a great idea, because their could be many things that are put on the news that could hurt on number of people watching.

In class we are still working on Boolean searches and honestly it is very boring stuff, although helpful when searching for specific areas of a topic and want to filter out all of the other useless garbage.  I think I know what to look for when thinking of these phrases to search by Boolean but I don’t really know what I might find and what each of the links will take me too.  I like the fact that class is canceled today but we still have some work to do!  I wish this was more of like a half web based class.  I feel like it would not be hard to understand based on the worksheets we are given.  If we were to do that every other week and meet in class .  It almost seems like it is a web-based class anyway will all of these posts and online work.  The project that is due coming up is still a little confusing to me.  I am not sure what we have to do and even what my topic means or what I am suppose to find out about it.  I am a little worried about the project and just hope I understand it when the time comes to present and doing the research.  Well I hope you have a good time at the conference and thanks for going so we could have this day off!

Well  in this post I dont really have much to say so I guess I will talk about everything that has been going on in class.  The test was very basic and I liked it alot I studied alot worrying about it and thinking I would do horrible.  Although I did very well on it, much better than I expected.  I guess I need to work on my decimal system and how the books are arraigned in the library.  That is the only one I missed.  I also think the review the class before the test was very helpful, and even though I didn’t seen very enthused I was ecstatic.  No, it really did help me out because library does not come easy for me and I never really got into reading and the library when I was little.  I have to be honest I only took this class because I thought it would be a breeze and me being a senior I am very lazy now and just wanted this to be over.  To my surprise this class is not easy and I was actually worried the first couple of days because I didn’t know if I was going to know anything and it was not common knowledge at all to me.  After this first test I feel much better about the class and feel like I am getting the hang of it and lets not hope it comes back to bite me in the…