I was not surprised that I was unable to finish the searches within 1/2 hour because often when I am searching for on thing I get side tracked onto reading something fascinating that I come across unexpectedly. Although I deliberately tried to resist the temptation, I gave into it about 20 minutes into the searching after I had found 6 of the 9 items and figured I wasn’t going to make the time limit so I may as well. I was able to ultimately find 7 of the 9 and came close but not actually to the correct sites on the remaining 2. I used Yahoo & Google plus a few other sites to navigate and after being frustrated that I couldn’t find the last 2 - it was well past the initial half hour, I checked the other student’s blogs to satisfy my own curiosity. I learned how to get to one from the blog of another students and am grateful to have learned of the site. Also I found that searching took less time than having to document it on the Blog- finding the time to log in successfully and compose this entry. It always seems to take me longer to document the results than to do the research- and finding the sites is much more fun. Below are my results.
1. A recording of Leon Trotsky speaking in English.
Trotsky's voice found under search of Trotsky, leon + voice + english
Trotsky site
2. 1915 suffrage poem with the line: When all the women wanted it.
"When all the women wanted it" + 1915 search
www.geocities.com/Paris/Bistro/8066/ADMsuffrage.html
lcweb2.loc.gov/rbc/rbnawsa/n3348/n3348.old
www.outfo.org/literature/pg/1/1/6/8/11689/11689-8.txt - 71k
3. skipped after first search froze and then went back later- see below.
4. An 18th century speech by Willie Lynch telling Virginia slave owners how to keep slaves in line.
http://www.duboislc.org/html/WillieLynch.html from search Lynch, Willie + slaves
5. An online debate over whether the 1962 Cuban crisis would have been different if Kruschev had sent a fair sized contingent of Russian troops instead of missiles.
http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/ search for Cuban Missile crisis
6. A complete version of "Annual Review of Information Technology Developments for Economic and Social Historians, 1993" in The Economic History Review by Roger Middleton and Peter Wardley (one of first publications for historians to talk about Internet).
I had several sites with the citation but I finally went to our SI library site to access Jastor and found the reference there. I couldn’t get to the actual page on my log-on because I’m having trouble with my Jastor access as well as a few other sites (our IT office is working on the problem), but I could have a colleague pull it up or could print it off the GMU access to Jastor.
7. Four syllabi for courses that include Hamlet on the Holodeck by Janet Murray.
There were actually more than 4 but these were the ones down after looking at them quickly.
http://iat.ubalt.edu/courses/cosc320.101_Fa04/syllabus.shtml
http://legacy.centenary.edu/~balexand/multimedia/2001/syllabus.html http://www.units.muohio.edu/englishtech/ENG49502/ENG495syll02.htm
http://www.stanford.edu/class/sts145/html/Syllab
3. A letter from George Washington to Timothy Pickering in which Washington complains about "certain forged letters" intended to wound his character and "deceive the people."
At first I searched in LC but the web site froze on me- not uncommon for my computer at work. I was doing the initial searched at lunch so I went to Yahoo and did an advanced search. I found a number sites on forged letters of GW, an indication on the Mount Vernon site that such a letter may exist in there archive, and some wonderful letters at http://gwpapers.virginia.edu from the University of Virginia site. I copied the site to check later because my 1/2 hour was up and I had to get back to work, At home I went back to the LC site & found the correct letter but then I went back to the UVA site and became immersed
8. The home page for the Center for History & New Media as it looked in 1998.
I was out of time by this one so I tried at home on a later day. This one was very frustrating for me. I got the site at 2000 & 2002 but not 1998. Funny thing is I remember looking at an earlier version of the site. I kept either getting the current site, a textual reference from 1998, an error message, or a broken link. Finally i check my classmates blogs. Someone had used Way Back Machine, a site I didn’t know about but was delighted to find out about for future reference.
9. A picture of Janet Murray together with the Sims.
Skipped after not finding in first 4 tries - then tried again later at home. Several sites have pictures of her and a few mention the Sims on the sites but none that I could find actually have her “with the Sims” and gave up on this one.
TI tried the hot link directions but it doesn't appear to be working? Why?
Posted by Debbie S-J at September 11, 2004 11:55 PM