Wednesday, May 4, 2011

What I Liked About the Class LOR-101

While taking the class LOR-101 I liked several things that we did in this class. The first thing that I liked was how my teacher knew how to answer all of my questions completely, and in a way that I could understand. The second thing that I liked was how we did group work in class. This helped me understand the databases more and the correct order of how to citate when we used the pieces of paper. This helped me because I learn better doing more hands on projects. The third thing that I liked was actually having homework assignments and having to do our weekly blogs. The reasoning behind this was because the homework taught me how to create and customize a Google Custom Search Engine, and the blogs helped me express myself. The last thing that I liked was how helpful the information that I learned from this class helped me in my other classes. As you can see, I really enjoyed taking this class for the reasons I listed above, and I would reccommend everybody to take this class.

What I learned from LOR-101

When I first signed up to take the class LOR-101, I thought it was just going to be a class where I could just work on homework, kind of like a study hall. To my amazement, the class was not like this at all. Instead, we learned about the different databases that an individual could use to help locate information. I also learned which databases are best for different subjects such as ERIC is for education. I also learned how to citate, such as in APA form, and about plagarism, which consisted of the different types. Before I took this class I had no idea about any of this information that I just stated, but by taking LOR-101 it helped me with research for my other classes such as English papers. I feel that this class was really helpful to my education and own knowledge and I am glad that I took this class.