Library Ethnography

Here is the link to the project

http://www.slideshare.net/dougesands/library-ethnography-project-16287751

In class blog post 3

My group and I decided to do our research on Should social media impact your professional life. We based our news story on a article about a 23 year old high school teacher who was found with pictures of her self naked and smoking weed on her twitter account and having a tweet about having weed in car when she was at work. We picked this topic because as the first generation to grow up with social media this would affect us the most. It personally interest me because as someone with a facebook and has previous work experience I wonder if your boss it is okay or wrong  for your boss to look on your facebook and judge you for something you have previously done or said in your own personal life. This subject does goes with my major which is Management Information Systems where you deal with how technology is or can be used for business. Using social media like facebook or twitter to decide if you should have or keep a job falls right into my ally.

News Stories

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/smog-pollution-chokes-beijing-air/2013/01/29/2d5a2a48-6a3f-11e2-af53-7b2b2a7510a8_blog.html

Beijing, China is having a huge smog alert and the pollution in the air is very deadly. This pollution is making people ill and this is because of the factories around it

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/29/16756897-sexting-case-indiana-middle-school-teacher-facing-charges-is-fired?lite

A Indiana middle school teacher is found sexting multiple previous and current students and loses his position as a teacher and is getting sued.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=he_mid#/video/health/2013/01/29/exp-hm-norovirus-update.cnn

A new strain of the Norovirus is starting to attack the U.S., it is a stomach virus that attacks the colon and the stomach and people should watch out and wash there hands to prevent from getting it

In class post 2

If someone jumped in one of my conversations and it was about football  I would want to know if they actually knew anything about whats going on and not just be some creeper coming in a conversation. I would usually say a couple of big time names like Mike Vick, Peyton Manning, or RGIII to see if they even know the basics of what we are talking about and then I would ask them what is there favorite team and if they say some other sports team like the LA Lakers then I know for a fact they have know idea what they are talking about and probably stop talking and try to make the least awkward exit. I would really start paying attention to what they are saying once they mention one of my favorite teams or players. If they start talking about a really big play that had happened recently that would really catch my attention like Ray Lewis giving a big hit to a player and he picks up the fumble and run it back for a touchdown. Something like that would really catch my attention and would also clarify that you know what the conversation is about.

Interview

I interviewed Josh Scroggins who is an upper-level RA at UWG. When I asked him the question about what type of sources his professors required from him, he told me that his professors never really required any specific sources too him but did recommend Galileo and other type of searching tools that the library has to offer on their site. I also asked him what types of sites worked for him and what didn't and he stated that Wikipedia(one of the obvious choices) did not work for him because anybody could change whatever was on their and also said that you have to be careful with sites that end with .edu because a lot of them are owned by private places and could be very bias even though it still gives good information. The information could be bias and should check out other sources as-well but the sources he does like and suggest on using are things that are cited by scholarly articles and usually anything by Newly York times. Scroggins also stated   that the way he researched in high school is completely different than now in college. Back in high school he use to use wikipedia and sparknotes but here in college he told me his professors do not play that and his research skills have became better in every way

My Favorite Research Project

My favorite research project that I had to do was in my 12th grade Government class. We had to make a fake campaign for a political party that we made up. My classmates and I decided to make fun of a more radical republican party, so we decided to make a video showing our views on certain issues in the country. We didnt have to look for much information because my teacher gave us a list of topics and since it was pretty much that we can make up information there was not that much need for looking anything up. We didn't have to really do a presentation like with powerpoints or standing up and talking we just basiclly said here is our video and played it. That project was my favorite because that was the last one I got to do with my high school friends and we had a whole lot of fun while doing shooting the video like when we went to taco bell for the project and asked the employees funny stupid questions.

B-Skinny Cofee

Well the first thing i did was look somewhere on the site for an author, but i could not find one anywhere. I even looked in the contact page, but all I found was two sentences saying to contact the person who told you about the site. This was the first thing that made me not think this was a real site. If you look at the copyright it says 2011 which is fairly recent ,but if you go to the references most of the references were way out dated  and one was from the 80's. Some of the references are completely irrelevant like the one reference referring to an article about Anti-Obesity action of oolong tea. The person who wrote this goal was   to tell you about this amazing healthy tea that is suppose to help you lose weight. This website is directed to people who are 16 and over. I believe this is paid advertisement in disguise because there are plenty of ads to other websites on the homepage. There is no real bias information on this site that I saw, but some of the pages are pretty irrelevant like the about us page because it gives you the same crappy two sentences saying to contact the person who told you about the site. All in all the site seems pretty much like a fake website and I would never tell anyone to get on it

My name is Doug Sands and I was born and raised in Marietta,Ga. I decided to go to UWG because I heard a lot about it from my friends in High school. I major in Management Information Systems and I would like to become a system analyst or Web developer with it. I expect out of this class to be able to learn how to search for certain subjects and books using the library.