http://twoplayfulotters.com/students/vplamondon.html

I had fun with this. It gave me an excuse to drag out my expressions web book and use it for getting some of the codes that I needed. I have never used notepad, just frontpage and expressions web, so it was a learning experience creating a web page strictly from code. I actually like using the code instead of doing it the way frontpage and expressions web teaches you.

I'm not sure if I would use this as a family web page or not. Facebook and other social pages seem to be a bit easier to use and would allow people to post comments.

I think overall the top level domain I would use is .gov, because this would bring up articles and reports that are posted by the government, and the laws that are in effect about internet privacy.

I like the subject directories. I like how it brought up different search tools to help narrow down your search. I added dmoz.org to my favorites, this I thought was very useful.

Overall I kind of struggled with this. I was having some issues with the .com search in altavista, and trying to reword my search to try and get the results that I wanted.

I chose www.dmoz.org

There I input "Internet privacy" in the search box, that took me to a page where I could click on different links that were related to my topic. On that page I found a link that took me to a web site that was about cyberbulling, which was what I was looking for.

http://www.cyberbullying.us/

I liked this site, because it gave options on different aspects of the search you typed in.

Internet and privacy and (elderly or child*) and (law* or legislat*)

I chose altavista as my search engine. I chose the following information from each of the top-level domains.

For the .gov domain I chose:
Privacy & Security News Brief
December 15 – December 21, 2007 Vol. 1, No. 11 20 pgs
This article had links of several different articles that all had to do with some type of internet privacy and identify theft.

For my .org domain I chose:
http://www.cba.org/Alberta/PDF/Newsletter-Spring2007.pdf
Law Matters, even though it was a Canadian article the information was good. It followed the A.S.P.E.C.T rules as well. This article too was three years old.

For my .edu domain I chose
http://culaw2.creighton.edu/pdf/library/Collection%20Dev%20Policy%202008%20Final%20Version.pdf

I believe all the articles that I chose for the three domains followed all the A.S.P.E.C.T rules. All had good authority, the sources were good, the purpose was well stated and relevant to what I was looking for, the article was balanced on the information, and all were less than four years old. I chose articles that came either from a university or from a government source.

I had problems finding a good article or web site in the .com domain, I tried everything that I could think of, and every combination that of my search question.

Kitty can you suggest anything?

For my search tool, I used altavista.
Five features I found were:

1.You can either search worldwide or just in the United States. Your results of your search can either be in all languages or English or Spanish.

2.You can search by the web, images or by news.

3.There is a settings link that you can click, and it will take you to another screen where you can set your search by however you want.

4.They have a family filter that you can use so you don’t accidently get a questionable web site.

5.In their advanced search you can put in all words, exact phrases, any of these words or even none of these words. You can give it a time frame. Choose the type of format that you want in your results such as pdf. You can have your results come up as either a domain or by URL.

I liked this site. I think I will keep it tucked in the back of my mind, to use later when I need to do more in-depth internet searches.

I chose to use the research statement Kitty recommended that I use. I used ProQuest for researching my articles.

Internet and privacy and (elderly or child*) and (law* or legislat*)

Scholarly Journal
Preston, C.. "Making Family-friendly Internet a Reality: The Internet Community Ports Act. " Brigham Young University Law Review 2007.6 (2007): 1471-1533. Research Library, ProQuest. Web. 19 Jul. 2009.

The three things that identify this as a research article are:
1. It is in-depth
2. It was written for scholars
3. It has an abstract summary

I chose this article because it address internet pornography and how it is accessed. It also address that our teens are exposed to it as early as ten-year old.


Magazine
Jessi Hempel. "Protecting Your Kids From Cyber-Predators. " Business Week 12 Dec. 2005: Research Library, ProQuest. Web. 19 Jul. 2009.

I chose this article because it addressed the issue of how vulnerable our kids are, and they are not even aware of it. How parents and other family members are in the dark about what their kids are actually doing is another reason why I chose this article.

Newspaper
Kevin McDermott. "Libraries fight plan for computer restrictions PROPOSED LAW Filters on porn would limit Internet use. OBJECTIONS The plan is costly, potentially harmful, librarians say :[Second Edition]. " St. Louis Post - Dispatch 15 May 2007, ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web. 19 Jul. 2009.


I chose this article because it addresses the access of pornography where our children should feel that they are safe, that is in our own community libraries. It address how the tax payers are using the money we pay in taxes to keep the access to pornographic sites available, and not put on filters so our children are protected from accidently clicking on a porn site

As I was researching this, I became more aware of what my own 15 year old son is exposed to each and every day. It was an eye opener. However, in reading some of these articles I learned what I can do as a parent to keep the exposure down to a minimum. I know that he will be exposed to it no matter what I do, but I can take some precautions.

Over all my experience doing research this way was great. I enjoy the way you can click on the media type for the articles that you want to browse through. As I mentioned before I would chose this type of research the next time that I need to writer either a paper or an article review.

Ok I used the same question as my Black Board post, but this is what my seach would be either way. I think this a good topic to look into, we need to be dilliagent in protecting the innocent, such as children and our elderly.

My question would be:

How to protect our children and our elderly's internet privacy.

My search would be

"Internet Privacy" child* and elderly and law*