Journal -- Week 3

Part 1. Reflections on Course Content
Organizing information assignment was very helpful because I never thought to organize my music until this assignment. Organizing is one thing that I really need help with because it makes my life easier. The database assignment was interesting and helpful and I learned a lot from this assignment. I used the Seattle Community College library catalog to do the assignment for the database and also went to ProQuest Periodical Database. The library catalog assignment was very helpful and easy to use. To complete this assignment I went online to WVC's library catalog to find books on my topic. I learned on the database assignment that when using the advanced search in the library catalog it was helpful to change the dropdown menu to title to narrow down my results. In ProQuest when you were searching it was nice when they gave you suggested topics because it narrowed down your results.

Part 2. Applications to your Life
I enjoyed all of the assignments this week. I am still having problems with making my topic global but hopefully I will have that fixed by the weekend. The problems that I am still having is how many words I am using in my searches. It is not working out for me but I am paying attention to the Search Tips that they have on each site so hopefully week 4 assignments will be easier when I am searching. I also was not able to find the subject encyclopedias to complete my field trip assignment but I plan on going back there because I want to see if this will help me with my topic. I felt very comfortable with the assignments this weeks. I was able to move around on all the sites and eventually find what I was looking for, it took me a little bit before I was able to find my community college library catalog but I accomplished this task. I kept up with my calendar, daily planner and schedule all week and it worked out well for me.