On Wednesday we has a joint session on the second floor of the City Tech library. i have been there many times but not to the upstairs area. We didnt look around much, we went straight into one room, where they had touch screen desktops, which was honestly awesome! Anyways, we did a catalogue search and articles search on the Brooklyn waterfront. We surfed the web on the most basic search engine at first which was google.com. Afterwards we went on wikipedia and learnt that it may not be so credible or reliable but it may always be current since mostly anyone can update it to anything they would like. A way to see if the information is correct on that website would be to check the references at the bottom of that site as well for a second source. The librarian taught us many neat tricks on how to broaden or narrow our search results. we use less words for a general search and more words for a more specific search.
After that, we were all basically connected to a note pad so we would type down our searches that we found on the waterfront and created a speech together, well the outline of a research/informative speech in about 15 minutes with the information the whole class got together from all the search engines and materials taught during the three hours we were there. It was a very productive joint class session and we learned a lot of narrowing down and looking up things online in a much quicker, and efficient way.
