In class research question

Reflect on what you have found on your research question so far. What information have you found? What do you still need to find? Have you had to rethink your question -- either making it more narrow or more broad -- since the last time you posted about your research question?

So far in my research i have found lots of online info about how politics effect childhood obesity. I have found online articles that are directed at my question.I have gotten a lot of info on the programs the government has created to try to help with childhood obesity. I have also read about the Clinton admen and how they came up with the idea of diet cokes in the schools and healthier food for kids. I have also read about why physical education was brought into schools. I have also found a book in the library that is directly about my topic. I still need more info though. At first I thought that the majority of my results would be and the United States but I am finding that a lot of the results are comparing to United states to Europe. So now I can compare why the system Europe has is working better than the one we have in place. From the research so far it seems that Europe has a better system in place for fighting childhood obesity. I have rethought my question and narrowed it down to how do politics effect childhood obesity. 

Filter bubbles

• Are filter bubbles a good thing?
• What are some problems that filter bubbles might cause for your academic research?
• What do you think of the suggestions for getting out of the filter bubble? Are you going to try any of them?

I think that limited filter bubbles can be a good thing. I enjoy getting on the web and some of the things being directed at me. I think that sometimes it could save a little time. During academic research i could see where filter bubbles could be a bad thing. It could feed you with biased results. But at the same time limited filters help us find info faster. So i think that limited bubbles or bubbles with custom options would work the best. I think that if you are going to be looking up something you would not want people to know or find out about, you should take your own safety precautions. If I ever look up something that I would not want being recorded I use tor. I also sometimes use the incognito option. I also clear my cookies every once in a while. It is pretty scary that google saves all our information and knows so much about us. I hope that filter bubbles do dont become so advanced that they block out all of the info people do not want to see. If that happens then people would become uneducated and very bias. Hopefully soon google and other websites will give us the option to choose what we want filtered out and what we do not. I think that the logarithm can only do so much and will hopefully not become to advanced.

In class September 19

How can you apply the skills you have learned so far in this class to work in other classes?

The first skill I could use in another class would be finding a book. Before this class I had never checked out a book in the Ingram library. I also before now would not know how to look the book up and know where in the in library it was, or even what floor it was on. Another thing that will be useful in other classes is how to cite in the APA format. I have always used t he MLA format. The coolest skill I have learned is how to keep a blog and how to use blogger. I have always wondered how people keep blogs and how to do it. If i ever have to keep a blog in another class i will be ahead of the game. I have also learned how to tell if a website is credible and what websites would not be a good website to cite in a research paper. This class has made me much better at using google docs. I have learned that google pretty much has everything to blog and keep documents online for free. This class has taught me how to use courseden and check my grades.

In-class blog for September 12

The Ingram library search is very similar to my high school search. I am pretty sure that my school, Jackson State and West Georgia all use the same book search engine. Jacksonville State had the same way to find books as West Georgia but the library was much larger. Coming to this class was the first time I had ever came inside the West Georgia library. The group project was also the first time I had looked up a book or used the book search. But because of it being the same book search that i have already used it was easy to find my book. The most difficult part about finding a book is trying to match the number on the call number with the numbers on the book shelves. When I try to match the numbers I feel like I am just walking around in circles.

September 10 Homework

I looked up a couple of books about childhood obesity in schools. The two books i thought were the best for my topic are "Using school wellness plans to help fight childhood obesity" and the book "The benefits of physical and health education for our nation’s children". The book "The benefits of physical and health education for our nation’s children" I think would be the most beneficial to me because it covers my topic the best. It is directly talking about my topic. This book is the best of the two because it is more direct than the other books. I choose this book because of how direct the title of the book is. I will use this book to answer my research question by reading over the book and taking direct info out of the book and citing the book in my paper.

United States Congress House Of Representatives, . Using School Wellness Plans to Help Fight     
    Childhood Obesity . Washington: BiblioGov, 2010. Print.

1. 1-2 sentences on what it is about- This book is about what the government is doing to help with childhood obesity. The book also explains why physical education was added.  

1. 1-2 sentences on why you think it is a reliable, credible source- I think this is a reliable source because it was written by the house of representatives. All of them have education qualifications   

1. 1-2 sentences on how you could use it to answer your research question -I think would be the most beneficial to me because it covers my topic the best. It is directly talking about my topic. 

Libraryyy

Jamison took the first half of the pictures and put together the powerpoint. Savanna Took the second half of the pictures and used the computer to look up the book and found it.

Interview

For my interview I interviewed my best friend Steven. He is a junior at Jacksonville state. He told me that he has written a fair amount of research papers throughout college. He told me that the biggest difference for him in college was the fact that his professor made him use a variety for sources. He told me that he had to use a book, a article and a website for ever paper he wrote. He told me that the article could be from an online database or it could be a published article. He also told me that if you did not cite something right or forgot to cite a source the professor would most likely give you a zero for plagiarizing. He also say that his professors required much longer papers than he was use to writing. He said that in his upper level classes five pages was the minimum. Steven also informed me that his professor counted off for every error. Steven told me that when I start working on a research paper I do not need to wait till the last minute to do it, he says that it will be tough to find information and that i need to start as soon as I can. One important thing i have learned about writing papers for me is that content is everything, content is what makes the paper.

In-class blog post for September 5

Based on your presearch & today’s exercise, how will you refine your research question?

I will refine my topic by talking more about how politics have effected the drink and snack machines in schools. also, how politics have effected companies going from sugar to high corn syrup. I will also talk about how changing these things has effected childhood obesity. i will also talk about politics helping make physical education mandatory in schools.