This blog will contain a collection of posts made during the Fall 2015 semester for Professor Vafa's UHV EDUC 6311 class.
This post contains the first assignment for this class.
Assignment 1
Name: Rachel Striedel
Course: EDUC 6311
Search Term: “Social media in education”
Total number of results from the UHV library: 3,040,018
Total number of results from Google Scholar: About 3,510,000 results
Total number of results from ERIC: 8,448
Methods used to narrow the search:
• Placing social media in quotation marks
• Using more specific terminology such as “social media” in elementary education
• Limiting the date range of articles
• Limiting the source of articles
Method used to find more related articles:
• Using terminology in the search that relates to this subject (facebook, Instagram, etc)
• Using synonyms in search (social networking, media influenced learning, etc.)
List other resources that you could use for your search:
• Educational websites (.edu)
• Organization websites (.org)
• Government websites (.gov)
• Academic journals
• Local library resources (public library and university library)
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