Lab 4: Search and Powerpoint You can do this lab at home or at a lab session. Part of this lab requires going to web sites that allow access to UCD computers only. So, if you are working from home, and discover that you are blocked from accessing a particular site, you may have to go to one of the labs after all. Part 1: Search The first goal of this lab is to locate articles related to your term-paper topic. We will ask you to do at least two searches, and print the results for each one. You may want to print the results twice, so that you can turn one copy in, and keep one copy for yourself. Or, save the results in a file, and then upload the file to MySpace on MyUCDavis. SEARCHING HARVEST * Go to the University Library page: www.lib.ucdavis.edu * Click on Harvest UC Davis Catalog (under "Catalogs & Databases") Notice that the "Full Catalog" tab is selected by default. Later, you may want to select "Journals & Serials." Notice that the default value for the "Search field" box is "Keyword(s) anywhere". Later, you may want to change that to "Subject word(s)". * Enter the words related to your subject, then click Search. Note: if you are searching for a phrase, like "trojan war" or "internet addiction", then put the phrase in quotes --- just like you would for Google. * If you get 0 results, try another search. * If you get some results, then you can click in the box to the left of each item that looks interesting to you. * Then, click on "Create Subset" (near the top center of the screen). * Then, click the Print View button. * You can print right now, or save this page to a file. To save the page, just use your browser's File menu. For example, if you are using Firefox: * click on File, then Save Page As * A new window will pop up. In this window: * Click on the Desktop button on the left side * Change the end of the filename to ".txt" * Click on Save (bottom right) * A new icon should appear on the Desktop. * Feel free to repeat these steps for a different search: Just use the Back Button in your browser to go back to the Harvest main page. SEARCHING GOOGLE SCHOLAR * go to www.google.com * Click on "more >>". * If a link to Google Scholar does not appear, click on "even more >>" * Click on Google Scholar. * Click on Scholar Preferences. Look for the Library Links section. Is UC Davis already listed (and checked)? If not, then type the full name into the search bar: University of California Davis and click on search. Doing that should add UC Davis to the list of libraries. Be sure the box for UC Davis has a checkmark. Click on Save Preferences near the bottom of the page. Then go back to Google Scholar. * Click on Scholar Help and browse the help page, especially the part that explains the results. Then go back to Google Scholar. * Try some searches: - try a topic related to your major: ex: medieval history - try one of your professors: ex: author:"firstname lastname" or author:"lastname" or author:"firstInitial lastname" - try this search: psychology "quantitative methods" author:"J Cohen" One of the first results should be: Quantitative Methods in Psychology: a Power Primer Notice the UC-eLinks link on the top line of the result. Click there, and see the results. Convenient! * That was just for practice: now try to use Google Scholar to find information about your term paper topic. Try several searches. For this lab assignment, just print one of the search results pages. But for yourself, you might want to save additional information to a file, and perhaps print that file. (Or you might just want to save the "search string" that you type in to Google Scholar, so that you can try it again at home.) SEARCHING OTHER SOURCES (OPTIONAL) * Go back to the University Library page: www.lib.ucdavis.edu * Click on Subject Guides under "Catalogs & Databases". Choose a subject and click on it. For example, there is a Computer Science link near the bottom of the page. * Try searching one of the items shown on the resulting page. For example, on the Computer Science page is the ACM Digital Library. If you find any good results, please print them. Just as an example, I went to the ACM Digital Library and searched for "internet addiction", and the results page showed 6 results. SEARCHING ELECTRONIC DATABASES (OPTIONAL) * Go back to the University Library page: www.lib.ucdavis.edu * Under "Research Tools", click on "Electronic Databases A-Z". There are hundreds of databases to choose from. * Click on the letter L. Then click on LexisNexis Academic, and try a search there. If you find any good results, please print them. PART 2: Powerpoint Please create a three-slide presentation using Microsoft Powerpoint. The format of your presenation is as follows: slide 1: Title Your Name All photos are from this website: www.something.something slide 2: Title Text Picture (a quote or description) slide 3: same format as slide #2. * Example: slide 1: My Favorite Presidents Your name here All photos are from this website: www.whitehouse.gov slide 2: George Washington (1789 - 1797) "To be prepared for .... Picture of G.W. ....................... ......................." slide 3: Thomas Jefferson (1801 - 1809) "We hold these truths to Picture of T.J. be .................... ...................... ...................... ....................." * Feel free to change the theme from "presidents" to whatever you like. The goal is simply to create 3 slides, such that 2 of them have a title, picture, and some text. Steps: Open Power Point, and select the top-left AutoLayout. If this doesn't come up, don't worry, just select File, New again. A dialog box should come up; select Blank Presentation and click Ok, then select the auto layout again. Press Ok. Click where it says "Click to add title", and type in your title. Click where it says "Click to add subtitle, and add: Your name All photos are from this website (some website - we'll get to that in a second.) Wait, you don't know what your presentation is about? Neither do we. Pick something. Find a website that has pictures about it. www.yosemite.org is always nice :) You can try images.google.com too. Select Insert, New Slide. The default layout should do just fine. Add a title, then decide what your first picture is going to be about. Type something about it. Insert your first picture: Go to Internet Explorer, and go to the website you found earlier. Find the picture you want. Right-click on it, and select Save Picture As. Give the picture a name you can remember, and press Ok. Go back to PowerPoint. Select Insert, Picture, From File. Open the file you want. You might have to move it around or resize it a bit. Advanced tip: Try to resize it diagonally only. Otherwise the aspect ratio gets fouled up, and the picture looks stretched, like you in a funhouse mirror. Repeat the last step! * Please save your file as mypresentation.ppt. PART 3: Using MyUCDavis to save your work * Go to: my.ucdavis.edu and click on "Enter ..." * log in * Click on My Tools, and then MySpace * Click on Upload Files * Fill out the info on the right side of the window to save your files from this lab. * Click on UPLOAD * If everything worked OK, you should see your files in the list on the left side of the window. Part 4: Turn in your homework using MyUCDavis * Go to: my.ucdavis.edu and click on "Enter ..." * log in * Click on ECS 015 * Click on Assignments * Click on "Drop-off" * Click on "Browse" and find your file "mypresentation.ppt" * Click on "Drop-off". Part 5: TURNING IN YOUR Printed WORK * Please turn in: * 2 print-outs for Part 1 of the lab (library research) * Please staple your 2 print-outs together, write your name on them, and turn them into class or any lab session. I will accept printouts turned into class or lab on Monday 26 October. Grading: 6 points for library research printout 9 points for slides, 3 point each.