Unit 2 Assignment 1

Topic: Lead Poisoning
Lead poisoning occurs when you absorb too much lead by breathing or swallowing a substance with lead in it, such as food, dust, paint, or water.

Broadest Topic: Mercury Vapor
While old paint has been the mostsource of airborne heavy metal (i.e., lead) A 1990 report detailed elevated levels of mercury in persons exposed to interior latex (water-based) paint containing phenylmercuric acetate.

Narrower Topic: Key Signs of Lead/ Mercury Poisoning
* Gastrointestinal discomfort/constipation/anorexia/nausea
* Fatigue, weakness
* Personality changes
* Headache
* Hearing loss
* Tremor, lack of coordination

Even narrower topic: Lead and Mercury becomes very toxic to human and living organisms.

Think of two questions that you could ask about your topic:
1) Where and how does lead get in to our food?
2) How are lead and mercury tested?

Unit 2 Assignment 1

1. what advantages and disadvantages have you discovered?
2. how might this unit change the way you interact with search engines in the future?

1) The advantages I have discovered is that, search engines can list and give you many resources of what it is that people are looking for. The disadvantage is some links are not that resourceful so you have to keep searching through many links to find what you are looking for.

2) This unit would change the way I react with search engines in the future by typing in different key word of what I am looking for in the search box to see what other results I would get.

Delicious Research Log

1. What is Delicious?
Delicious is an online tool that saves all of your bookmarks and give you and other people ability to see what you and other people bookmarked.

2. What is the advantage of this web 2.0 tool?
The advantage of the web's 2.0 tool that it helps people with saving their stuff and what they researched so when they need to look back for it then they can always go back to look for their searching on the internet,

3. Do you think you might use it? If so, why? If not, why?
I think I might use this tool because it might help me to go back and remember what I looked at in the past.

Unit 1 Part 2 Assignment

1. What web search engine or engines did you use?
2. Search techniques
1. What search terms did you use?
2. What search techniques did you try?
3. Evaluation
1. How did you evaluate your results?
2. What conclusions did you draw about the different search engines? Consider

i. what was the same?

ii. what was different?

iii. Differences in numbers of results

iv. etc.

3. Why do you think the search engines behaved as they did?
5. What other questions came into your mind as you carried out this exercise?

Answers:

1) I used Google, Msn , Yahoo

2a) Rims, Wheels, Tires

2b) I just put in key words to what I am looking for to see what kind of results I would get. (i.e "Rims", Tires and Wheels, Rims and Tires.

3a) Google gave me: Results 1 - 10 of about 22,900,000 for rims
Msn: 1 - 10 of 623,000,000 for wheels
Yahoo: 1 - 10 of 283,000,000 for tires

3b) Every search engine gave me brands of the tires wheels and rims and all three listed had the brands in different order. All the number of results were all different. Some had more and some had less.

3c) I think the search engines behaved like they did is because the keywords were to general and it just listed anything that was typed in.

4) Questions that came to mind when I was searching was how and why the orders came and how did the keyword lead the search engine to pop up Brands.

Here's my blog. I guess I did it right...