Research thus far!

I have kept my same research quetion which is, How Child Obesity and Video Games are directly related? I have found all my background information on the topic of child obesity. I have also found the statics of child obesity and the growing rate the United States has seen. I still need to find more information on the rate children have become more into video games these past few years and see if there is a pattern with the growing rate of obesity. I also may want to research why video games have become more trending with children and if this is going to increase in the future or decrease because people have realized there are related in certain ways. If parents have a problem with their child gaining more and more weight due to playing video games and not playing outside, are they trying to do something about it or are they supporting it to make there children happy? I still have a lot of work to do to answer my research question in full!

"filter bubbles"

I don't think that filter bubbles are a good thing. Limiting the information you can view based on previous views is absurd. How does a robot know what your likes and dislikes are? they don't.. so why are they allowed to filter what we see based on what they think. I believe this will limit the information we will be able to see when searching for our research topic. So before i begin my research on my personal computer i will take a look at the ten steps to pop my filter bubble to allow more information to be shown instead of filtered information they the robots think are useful. The internet has changed drastically over time and for these robots to filter information we see based on previous searches or visited sites is wrong.

Things I've Learned!

This library class has taught me a lot that i can use in my future here at West Georgia. I knew a little bit about citations but doing some of these in class really helped me understand more about it. Ive only used MLA in the past so using another method was helpful. Our library project where we had to find a book in the library was really helpful. I had no clue before entering this class where to even go to look up a book but now i know how and where to find a book if i need one for class or just to read for fun. In my past English classes my professor told me a few criteria on what a good source is but talking about these in class helped me further my knowledge on this topic. I will now know what ans what isn't a good source when doing research papers and other academic writing. I've have learned a little about developing a research question and what needs to be said in order to have a valid question. The question cannot be one that can be easily answered in a paragraph, it needs to be one i can elaborate on. I'm excited to learn more about what this class has to offer!

library catalog vs. high school catalog

Looking up books in the library catalog and looking up books in a high school library are very different. The library catalog has many more books than a high school would have so it makes it more complicated when finding a book on a shelf. In high school we did not have electronic books only printed texts. When searching for a book in the UWG catalog and searching for a book in high school will bring up completly different results. Here a UWG if you type in a word hundreds of books can match your search so it is important to do advance searchs in order to find a specific. In high schools if you know what book you are looking for in the library and you type in a keyword that book will most likely come up at the top of your search. I liked using GIL-FIND in class on Monday. I found it extremely helpful to find a specific book on a certain topic. When using many key words to find a book it will only bring up books with those descriptions. You can use the words AND or OR to help define a search even more.

books

My research topic is how child obesity and video games are directly related and how the more popular the video games get the rate of child obesity also increase. One book that i found extremely helpful was one of the books that was given to us in class, Overcoming Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence. Before i start researching my topic i think it is important to get some background information to learn more about child obesity and the severity of the issue in the United States, and i think this book would give me the information i need in order to start the research process. Another book that i found that was help was a book called Child Obesity. This book is a parents guide to learn how to control their child by controlling their eating habits and their regular exercise. It also points out that watching tv and playing video games is not a way to control your child weight, which is helpful for me and my topic.

Interview

For my research interview I interviewed Carly Welch. She is a Junior here at West Georgia and she is a marketing major. She says she had done many research papers and they key to a successful research paper is having excellent quotes from reliable sources. She said she mainly used the library catalog and Google scholar.  She said her favorite research topic she had done was "Cyber Crimes." She told me with good sites and hard work comes success. She also said she found that making an outline helped her out a lot and she recommend I try to do this for my research papers in the future. She said the most important thing is to chose a important topic and something there is a good bit of information on and also something you may be interested in. The most surprising thing she told me was that the outline helped are a lot. I never knew an outline was so useful!

Library Project

http://www.slideshare.net/kolbeywinders/libretho1101 My partner was Kolbey Winders and we both went to the library together and took all the necessary steps that lead us to finding the book we were looking for. We also both worked on the power point together.

Research Question

In class today we learned how to refine our research topics and some things i learned are to not have an opinionated topic. A research question should be about a specific idea that you can elaborate on to be able to get enough information to write a research paper on not just a question that can be answered in one paragraph. My group is researching the topic child obesity and each one of us is elaborating on each of the different factors associated with child obesity. My factor on obesity is how video games and other electronics are directly related to the growing rate of child obesity here in the United States. I believe this is a good research question because although it is very specific i can elaborate on this topic enough to get a good amount of information and inform the class on this major concern many Americans have.Video games and other electronics have been linked to obesity so i don't think i will have a problem getting information to support my research question. I have came up with a research topic that i believe is specific and will allow me to get a great amount of information. My question is: How are video games and other such electronics directly related to the growing rate of child obesity in the United States?