My word for this week's tasks - confusing! I have always known that I would not do very well in the business world and browsing through this week's links has confirmed that fact in my mind. I know we really did not need a great deal of background information just to do the searching and "playing around" on the varied source pages, but I was really out of my comfort zone.
I tried to get an early start on the assignment for the week and ended up completely baffled by the first source we needed to find. When I found out today it wasn't there, I felt better. However, I spent a lot of time and energy trying to find the first source page and became very frustrated.
Business Source Complete - I found several articles in academic journals and periodicals when I searched for information on FM radio. I think I could help someone with a search using this site. I liked the visual search options. I searched Maine tourism and came up with a varied amount of information. It was fun and easy to use.
EconLit - I had some problems trying to use this source. The topic of resources for small business seemed to be too broad and I tried to narrow the focus but had no luck. I got no results. When I looked for EPA and small business I found one article. The search for tax policy and small business articles resulted in several full text articles. However, several of them were dated. I tried to narrow the timeliness of the articles to see what would result and had little luck.
Value Line - I am really not into the stock market, but I thought it was fun to look at different companies and see how they were doing in the stock market. I guess if I wanted to buy stocks I could go to this site. I was unfamiliar with much of the terminology so I don't know how helpful I could be to someone else!
Wall Street Journal - When searching for articles about small business and health care I found several articles, many of them "older." I did narrow down my search to the past year and found some full text articles that could be helpful for small business owners or anyone looking for information about taxing of small businesses.
As a teacher of 7th grade, I'm not sure I would use these sources. It did me good to look them over and I did get over my frustration as I continued using the varied sources.
I'm with you on Valueline - Greek would be easier. It seems to me that most people who need it know what to do once they get there. Now, you can tell them it's available for free in Marvel so they don't have spend money on that expensive subscription.
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