Finding Articles in Periodical Indexes

Driscoll, Kelly. "Collaboration In Today's Classrooms: New Web Tools Change The Game." Multimedia & Internet@Schools 14.3 (2007): 9-12. Academic Search Premier. Web. 25 July 2012


This article does a good job explaining how internet communication has helped benefit teachers and students.  It's from a magazine called Multimedia & Internet @Schools.  It talks about Web 2.0 and how there is collaboration between the teacher and students in using blogs for teaching materials, etc.


Kyaw-Phyo Linn, et al. "The Interaction Effects Of Familiarity, Breadth And Media Usage On Web Browsing Experience." Computers In Human Behavior 27.6 (2011): 2141-2152. Academic Search Premier. Web. 25 July 2012.


I chose this article from Computers in Human Behavior because it talks about how the internet has rapidly become not just a lifestyle for people but also help businesses grow.  Not only that but how websites are a key factor in businesses today.


Rebecca, Fairley R. "Study Finds Internet of Social Benefit to Users." New York Times: G.7. Los Angeles Times; National Newspapers Core; New York Times. May 11 2000. Web. 25 July 2012 .


This last research from the NY Times is another good article about how the internet has changed and benefited social users.  According to the article, internet users have found using email to help family bonds grow stronger.  It does touch about the small percentage of users that feel isolated from their surroundings, but women in particular say they found they were able to keep in touch with family and friends easier thanks to email.


I found researching my topic having used EBSCO for searching a popular magazine and a scholarly journal, then using ProQuest for a newspaper search was great.  I found that using the search my professor's suggestion: (chang* OR transform) AND internet AND (communicat* OR interact*  , it really helped.  Although for the newspaper search, I had taken out the OR transform part, and managed to find a good article on what I wanted to search for.  I found it very educating and it's definitely something I learned in finding better ways to be able to search smarter when using databases such as EBSCO and ProQuest.