Monday, October 19, 2009

RJA #8c : Multimedia.

I was very suprised in using www.blinkx.com for
any media on forced teaching reassignments to
poorer schools. I was able to find a video link to
a documentary about teaching in a high school
in Compton, Ca from 2008.

Research Tool Used : www.blinkx.com
Keyword(s) Used : Forced teaching reassignments,
teaching in poor schools.
Search Strategies Used : None, media came right
up w/o any operators.
Date of Search : 10-19-2009.
Number of Hits : 23
Relevance of Hits : 3

RJA #8b : Social Media.

I have chosen two media sites to find out more
information on my research topic. Those sites are :

http://www.technorati.com/
http://www.collecti.com/

Keywords Used : teacher reassignment, forced reassignment
Search Stragtegies : Boolean operators.
Date of Search : 10-19-2009
Number of Hits : 4 (http://www.technorati.com/)
7 (http://www.collecti.com/)
Relevance of Hits : 1 for each site.



RJA #8a : Websites.

I have researched http://www.infomine.ucr.edu/ in order to
research my topic of forced teacher reassignments. Here
are the results :

Keywords : teacher reassignment, forced reassignment.
Search strategies used : Boolean operators.
Date of Search : 10-19-2009
Number of Hits : 35