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How to use Britannica 1. Start off your research by going to [|www.ncwiseowl.com] and clicking on “High School Zone.” 2. Various sites are offer on the left side of your screen, but for this lesson click “Britannica.” 3. A site should open that says at the top left corner “Britannica Online School Edition”, right below that is a search bar. By using this search bar you will be able to conduct your research. a. For example say you are researching photography. By typing in photography you can find an array of general information about it. 4. After searching a topic you will be given information of the topic. 5. To the right of the screen, underneath “Additional Content” you can click on one of the things listed to narrow your search. 6. You can also find Pictures underneath “Additional Content” labeled “Multimedia”.

12/1/10 Topic of search: Directing a Film Keywords: Director (or Directing), Filming, Movie

__Boolean__ While working on trying to find information on my topic i have found many different things about it. For instance, a search works better on Boolify than on Destiny Quest. Boolify was able to find what i was looking for, provide links, and do it in a quick manner. It was very helpful in finding information, but some of the sites that it provided for me seemed to be a bit general or misleading. One of the sites i visited, which showed as the first result, seemed to be more of a pirated movie site than something about directing a film. I immediatly clicked out. It seems that Boolify does provide you with information, but unless you are very specific it only provides you with very general sites. I also attempted to use Destiny Quest, the online library catalog. This method did not work at all and no matter what I used as a keyword it wasn't able to find any books with the topic i was looking for.

__NCWiseOwl__ Finding my topic in Ncwiseowl was a bit difficult. I thought that it would be able to find me trusting text on my subject but it showed many things that had almost nothing to do with what i was searching. Most of the things that it showed to me were about upcoming films in theatres. The site is confusing to me because I want to find reliable information yet most of the tools it provides to narrow my search are not very trustworthy. I did manage to find one thing that related to my search and that was a book on making movies. It showed a detailed process on movie making but not on how to direct a film. It was still helpful, but not exactly what i was looking for.

__Google__ Using Google has its ups and downs when doing a search. Because Google provides you very general results with anything even mentioning your topic, it provides a large array of information for you. Unfortunatly, not all of this information is helpful to you. For example, when searching my topic, "Directing a Film", Google has provided me with news articles, amazon books, colleges, and then some helpful sites of what I'm looking for. So overall, when using Google you have to either narrow your search or nitpick through the links to find the one your looking for. The site isn't bad, but it isn't exactly quick to find what you are looking for.

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All three of these sites provided me with information to my topic, but some were more efficient than others. The worst out of all three of these methods would have to be NCWiseOwl. It gave me random, useless, information that just wasted my time. The site was also complicated and I found no way of finding my topic. Google was much better than NCWiseOwl, but still wasn't quite as efficient as I wanted it to be. While using it you have to filter out links that aren't for research. By far, the best search method would have to be Boolify search. This search was quick, easy, and provided me with what i was looking for. The websites it gave me were good sites that I would be able to use for a research project. So overall, if you want to get your good information quickly, use Boolify.

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