Thing Ten Search Strategies

InfoTrac Junior Edition:

Appropriateness: The articles provided are appropriate for the age of
students that would be searching the site.
Usability: This site seems to be pretty easy to use and understand.
Obviously, every database will need some introductory education in
order for the students to fully understand how to get the most out of the
resource.
Content: The content is age appropriate for the students that would be
using this database. The articles that show up are not too hard for their
researching abilities, but also give a bit of a challenge in order to grow
their abilities.
Credibility: This database provides very credible articles and resources
for students to use.
InfoTrac Student Edition:
Appropriateness: The articles provided, and the database itself, are
appropriate for the age of the students that would be searching and
researching. It is more challenging than the Junior Edition so that
students can move up as their abilities become stronger.
Usability: This site is more challenging to use, but its meant for students
that have experience using database sites for research and preparing
them for the college level databases and research they will be doing in
just a short amount of time.
Content: The content provided is age and ability appropriate.
Credibility: The database provides credible resources for students to use.


I checked out Culture Grams from the MeL Database list. I like how easy
it is to use and provides easy to understand information about different
cultural aspects that might be taught in a Social Studies classroom.
List of useful Databases:
Culture Grams: http://online.culturegrams.com/index.php
eBook K-8 Collection:
http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/basic?sid=3ec1b3aa-906e-
4f2c-a807-385be7a5e12f@sessionmgr110&vid=0&tid=2003EB
eLibrary: http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/elibweb/elib/do/search
InfoTrac Junior Edition:
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=STOJ&u=lom_accessmich
InfoTrac Student Edition:
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=STOM&u=lom_accessmich
Michigana Sources in US History Online:
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Michigana;jsessionid=92314260
9B4EBFA32E94E46B6C3EBEC4?locID=lom_accessmich
Opposing Viewpoints in Context:
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/?p=OVIC&u=lom_accessmich
SIRS Discover:
http://www.galesupport.com/migeoipcheck/migeoipcheck-
proq.php?database=SIRSDISC
Bogus/Hoax Websites:
http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/
Content: A fake soldier that was built in the 19
th
Century to aid in the
army to prevent the deaths of so many men. The site includes very
nicely photo-shopped pictures and very detailed information. Someone
was very creative in coming up with this machine.
Authority/Credibility: The writers of the website are self-proclaimed
history buffs, but thats it. They dont have any accreditation through a
university or company.
Bias/Purpose: I dont really understand why people would make stuff up
just to put it on the internet, especially as detailed as some machine that
was created to use in place of men in the army.
Usability/Design: Its a pretty scattered website. There isnt any reason
or organization for where things are placed throughout the site.
http://savetherennets.com/
Content: This website made me giggle because its just so out there on
the bogus scale. It claims that there are hamster like creatures that are
slaughtered and added to cheese to help it coagulate and people should
buy vegetarian cheese to support the end of this cruelty.
Authority/Credibility: I was always taught to use almost any other type
of website besides .com while looking at resources for research. This
site is a .com and is not supported by any credible larger source
anywhere on the website. The pictures shown on the site are obviously
just hamsters.
Bias/Purpose: To add to the growing craziness of animal cruelty and the
fact that some people will believe anything they read on the Internet.
Usability/Design: Overall, its a pretty boring website. Its simple to use
and navigate, but theres nothing visually interesting about it.

Works cited using KnightCite:
Wardi, Dina. Memorial Candles: Children of the Holocaust. N.p.:
Routledge, 2014. Google Scholar. Web. 26 Aug. 2014.
<http://books.google.com/books?id=zjTKAgAAQBAJ&dq=holocaust&lr
=&source=gbs_navlinks_s>.