2DL #3

 
 
GVRL

Topic: Internet
Search method: Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search term: "internet"
Keywords:

TOPIC	NARROWER TOPIC	EVEN NARROWER
internet	code	HTML JAVA JAVASCRIPT Cascading Style Sheets AJAX
	censorship	North Korea America Iran Saudi Arabia
	Web 2.0	Wiki Blog Facebook Podcasting
	service	Comcast Cable DSL Dial-up 56k

Title: Hypertext

Author(s): Antonio Rodríguez De Las Heras and Carl Mitcham

Source: Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Ed. Carl Mitcham. Vol. 2. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. p970-972.

Title: Distance Learning

Author(s): Michael H. McVey

Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology. Ed. Neil J. Salkind and Kristin Rasmussen. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc., 2008. p261-267. 

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WIKIPEDIA

Topic: Internet
Search method: Wikipedia
Search term: "internet"
Keywords:

Internet Engineering Task Force

Internet Protocol Suite

Transmission Control Protocol

Real-time Transport Protocol

Voice over IP

Public switched telephone network

E.164

ITU-T

Next generation network

Packet

ARPANET

Circuit switching

Multiplexing

Frequency-division multiplexing

Time-division multiplexing

Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy

Microwave transmission

 SEARCH QUESTIONS

In what ways do ICs (integrated circuits) utilize microwave transmission?

What measure of bandwidth consumption will max-out  a mutiplex?

 Can a company kill your wireless hardware by "brute" packeting?

• Page name: Microwave transmission
• Author: Wikipedia contributors
• Publisher: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
• Date of last revision: 25 December 2010 15:14 UTC
• Date retrieved: 18 January 2011 05:18 UTC
• Permanent link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Microwave_transmission&oldid=404175368
• Primary contributors: Revision history statistics
• Page Version ID: 404175368

• Page name: Next generation network
• Author: Wikipedia contributors
• Publisher: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
• Date of last revision: 29 December 2010 10:39 UTC
• Date retrieved: 18 January 2011 05:19 UTC
• Permanent link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Next_generation_network&oldid=404797399
• Primary contributors: Revision history statistics
• Page Version ID: 404797399

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MY THOUGHTS

      I have been recently using Gale Virtual library for my English 102 class so I was pretty familiar with it. I was also familiar with how frustrated I get with it. I tend to think too far ahead than what is good for me sometimes. GVRL is very good about getting very basic knowledge on subjects. If you know nothing about a subject, this is a good place to start to lay down a base. I typed keyword: "wiki" and I got a return of "hyperlink." Not so good, but had I not known anything about computers, when I initially typed keyword: "internet" I got a lot of good basic information.

     As for Wikipedia... makes me feel like I'm  on caffeine again! Click, info, click, info, click.... information, upon information, that, if you click the links within the text, direct you to more information that is most of the time directly related to the original topic. GVRL could make its text hyper linked this way, but it isn't unfortunately. If you want to redirect you search to something that caught your attention in the middle of an other text, you have to either paste the word in the homepage search engine or retype it there. Wiki is fast, too bad it isn't credible.