Strategic Communication, Portland OR
assignments, exercises, and other work completed during DTC 356 class on Fridays between 11 a.m. and 1:45 p.m.
in a pre-digital technology, its archival practices are fairly nice. When we are trying to store something digitally, how do we store it? are we using drives, are we using CDs, DVDs, etc. Digitally stored file is a great way to back something up, but the technology is also evolving and today's files are more …
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1. more on filtering: Database with well organized metadata is useful if you have a closed set of information that you want to look at in detail. Information about film, movies, directors, producers... IMDB first comes to mind instead of Google. IMDB is a well organized database, it is faceted (sorted by movie, by director, …
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Examining an academic database social knowing publish then filter lab exercise Books we think of being static, concrete tangible things we get answers. But over time, books are a slower conversation or a forum on the topic, then today's blogs, and forums. Information cloud-editor-publisher-distribute-consumer. information cloud-users as editors - communities - users as users The …
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1. What am I looking for? 2. What tools are available? 3. How can I search this tool like an expert? internet of things. what is it? I typed in a Google search "Internet of Things" to look what returns to the query: Wiki was at the top of the list defining the phrase "Internet …
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To my understanding as we collect files on our computer, we are putting them in the folders, well, when we try to decide whether it is better to keep files miscellaneous and just search for the files, or of organize them into folders and sorting the files. Well, I think we could never have just …
It really helps to read the help files... in class we were asked by a professor to read on the Google.com search basics and practice on applying those searching techniques in practice. I decided to use my own website: http://www.mikhailoparin.com. This tremendous improvement on understanding of the phrase: "KNOWING how to search and KNOWING what …
searching for "educational system in America" Google scholar: came back with the result of 3.2 mil. hits. CSA web: came up with 249 publications ---------------------------- Google: searched instead of "Find articles with all of the words" i used a different field to "Find articles with all of the words with the exact phrase" which narrowed …
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I have chosen to add local multimedia production houses both public and private to my list of bookmarks on delicious. When compared my tagging to others I found it interesting that mostly our tags matched one another. For example: Portland Community Media website has tags that reflect geographical location, type of business and type of …
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Search Griffin Catalog Clicked advanced search tab entered word <mendeleev> into the first tab under <Any Field:> In Limited to list I picked the following: Location: <ANY>; Material Type <ANY>; Language <English> the search result came back with three results: the descriptive data of the Highly relevant title entree is important to have in order to perform …
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searching for: "Periodic Table of Elements" found a http://www.ptable.com site that shows an interactive table of elements which can be organized by properties, orbitals, and by isotopes. Properties of each element are displayed in a zoom window which makes it easy to see the difference between the elements, when jut hovering over the table. chose …
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