Lesson #7a - Auto Repair Reference Center

Discovery Exercises:
1. First, I tried to look up the Partridge Family Bus (1955 Chevrolet 6700 series bus) but was unable to find it on ARRC. When the year 1955 was chosen, the only information found was for the make of Volkswagen. I then looked up the 1977 AMC Pace (from Wayne's World) and found only "Repair Information". Within this category, the information based on the certain systems was rather "hit or miss". Sometimes, the information was generic and not particularly helpful; other times,the information that could be found was helpful.
  
I must say it was fun to look through The 50 Most Famous Cars of All Time article.

2. I searched for my vehicle. I found 61 Technical Service Bulletins and Recall listings. I then put "recall" in the search field to narrow my results and found only one result. I wanted to know about any recalls but was getting frustrated at clicking through all the individual systems and their results to find them.

I found nothing startling in the Maintenance Intervals info but I always keep up on this and refer to the owner's manual for this anyway.

Lesson #6 : Mango Languages

1. Done
2a. I like the Dashboard feature so I can easily see where I have been and what was studied. Shiver me timbers! Brush me barnacles! I can't believe they have a PIRATE language category!

Lesson #5: Oxford Reference Collection

Answers to Discovery Exercises:
1. 6 entries for habeas corpus were found
2. A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing
3. 14 examples of boats are found in the Visual English Dictionary
4. 18 titles are offered in the English Language Reference link
5. The search results can be sorted "alphabetically" or "by relevance"
6. The end of law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. ~ John Locke
7. Physical and political maps are available for Syria
8. A Guide to Countries of the World: This invaluable global handbook provides a wealth of information for every country in the world. Each entry gives a brief history and outlines contemporary social, economic, political and religious issues. In addition, for each country there is a clear map and a quick-reference fact box containing data and statistics including languages, population, GDP, capital city, life expectancy, and more. Invaluable supplementary material includes detailed indicator tables showing income and poverty, health and population etc, and list of international organizations.
9. I found 25 results for the search of "recycling". I was unable to find the refine by book option. :-(
10. Not feeling "techy" enough to attempt the optional excercise of adding a ORO button or banner to my blog.. until next time...

Week #4: Lesson 4b Additional Education Datatbases

I am doing Lesson 4b first because that is what I can fit in my schedule currently. I will be back to explore the Live Homework Help lesson (4a) later.
Discovery Exercises:
1. I found 60 results. Here is an APA citation from one of them:
Alaska District Partners with Discovery. (cover story). (2010). Electronic Education Report, 17(18), 1-2.
2. I found 320 results. I found ten full text articles after 2008.
3. I found 107 results. I found 12 full text articles after 2008. There was overlap in the results.
4. I found 475 results. I found 22 full text articles after 2008.