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August 30, 2005

seek and ye shall find

Okay I used up all of my 30 minutes and found all but the images

#7. I started with #7 because i was already familiar with the wayback machine. I wanted an easy get to start with and it was
http://web.archive.org/web/19980128103923/http://chnm.gmu.edu/

#6. then, because JSTOR has been my best friend in the past i went to #6
I accessed JSTOR through Mason Library and the first hit was the 1995 "Annual Review of Information Technology Developments" I scrolled down to the 6th result and there it was Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-0117%28199405%292%3A47%3A2%3C374%3AAROITD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N

#1. then i thought, i'll get the images out of the way (because after finding the first set my confidence was boosted you see) so i search for Idi Amin, Tito and Roosevelt in Google images and AltaVista search machine. after 6 minutes i threw my hands up in despair.

#9. feeling a little defeated but still hopeful, i went on to Janet Murray and the Sims. Google Image again failed me but when i switched over to regular Google. i hit the mother load. i found http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/rr/f04/cw/blog/archives/000372.html

i was faced with two choices (the first of which proved impossible) forget the answers that i had found and going on with my search or using this serendipitous discovery as part of the learning tool. I decided to be noble.

i tried searching for #9 again - to no avail. I searched Google images, AltaVista images again using different combinations of Sims and Janet Murray. nothing.

#2. so I went on to question #2. using Google with quotes around when all the women wanted it and suffrage outside of the quotes i came up with about four hits. the third of which was the answer to the scavenger hunt. After all... we are supposed to learn about searching here and part of any search is serendipitous discovery who was i to turn my nose up at this boon. The answer for #2 is http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Bistro/8066/ADMsuffrage.html

#3. also taken from the answer sheet was http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw350298))

i checked to make sure the link was correct and snooped around the American memories site for a minute or two: checking out the actual scan version of the manuscript (what great penmanship) and browsing the collection of George Washington's Papers.

#4 http://www.duboislc.org/html/WillieLynch.html and then i read the comments that the professor had made about this document being a possible fraud. so i typed in "willie lynch" controlling slaves and hoax into Google which brought me to the history new network's blog archive (i didn't know there was a history news network - in the top right hand of the home page is an add for Mason's PhD program - "a doctorate with a difference"), which directed me to an article about the fraud by a Spellman professor.

#5 (this appears to be a new question added this year so my discovery did me no good) I used Google again but limited my search to domains ending with .cz and came up with http://old.hrad.cz/president/Havel/speeches/1990/2102_uk.html

#7 I used chnm's tool syllubus finder which i would not have known about had it not been for the answer sheet on the web. I went through and used it and found these four syllabi

1. Schedule - Western Washington University - 18k
Google excerpt: Recommended readings: pages 47-88 in The Non-Designer's Web Book. ... Re-read pages 117-120 in The Non-Designers Design Book (the Web Sites section). ...

2. EDIS 771W: Content Area Reading - University of Virginia's College at Wise - 56k
Google excerpt: Welcome to EDIS 771 on the web. This syllabus is a work in progress and may ... Area Reading 6th ed. and Chapter 2 of The Non-Designers Web Book (copies to ...

3. EDIS 771W: Content Area Reading - University of Virginia's College at Wise - 55k
Google excerpt: ... However, remember three things as you read this syllabus: ... to the module and its readings within the ... ed. and Chapter 2 of The Non-Designers Web Book

4. The Art Institute of Colorado Course Syllabus COURSE TITLE: P72307 ...
Google excerpt: Non-Designers Web Book Second Edition, by Robin Williams & John Tallett ... Lab Time for Web Site. Assignment—Due Week 10: Basic “Skeletal Site with page ...

#10 the link was provided to me by the answer sheet

http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/textbooks/2001/index.shtml Upon closer, I found that the article is part from the 2001 Textbook and Teaching a pull out of the Journal of American History

By this time my 30 minutes had expired.

There you have it... seeking and finding!!

Posted by nmartina at August 30, 2005 12:36 PM

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