What did you learn? What material was new to you? What were the three most important things you've learned in today's lesson/independent practice?

Today, I learned how to narrow down research. By writing "site:" followed by the specific extension, a plus sign and the topic your researching in the search engine, theresults are narrowed down to exactly what you are looking for. The search would look as follows, "site:extension + topic". I did not know of the shortcuts that can help for more efficient and successful researching. Therefore, the whole lesson today was new to me. Also, when looking in a specific country or region, you would type the region code after the extension as it would show up in the url and the information from that region would apppear. Another thing I learned is that when the topic is more then one word, they are surrounded by quotations so that the search engine is aware that they are to be put together as a phrase.

What did you already know of the material presented in the lesson ?

From the blogging and blog accounts that we have learned about, I already knew that people could make a blog but I didn't think just anybody could. I thought certain people of authority, such as teachers, scientists, etc. were the only ones who could make blogs. I also knew that in order to blog you need an account but I thought that blogging websites were for people that belonged to an organization of some sort. The ability to comment on blogs was something that I was familiar with aswell due to the fact that in some classes that I have taken commenting on blogs was essential.

Guiding Questions

• What did you already know of the material pesented in the lesson?
• What did you learn? What material was new to you? What were the three most important things you've learned in today's lesson/independent practice?
• What did you understand most/least about today's lesson/independent practice?
• What would you like to know more about the material?
• What questions do you still have?
• How is the information you learned applicable to your other class assignments? How is this  class helping you with research in your other classes?
• What did you learn from reading someone else's blog? Did it help you write your own blog entry?
• If there was a reading assignment, What did you learn from the reading assignment? What did you not understand? What prior knowledge did you bring to the reading material?
• Did you have a need for information today? If so, how did you go about finding it?