DATABASES

Building Block Search-Eric/CSA
My search query for my blog is, ‘What is films influence on culture change?’
Searching using in Eric/CSA
S1 (movies or film) =7799
S2 (influence or effect) =84856
S3 (culture or belief) =50737
S1 + S2 + S3 = 62

The best part of this database is now I can explore the choices. Journals, Peer-Reviewed Journals, Conferences and Books. Hard to believe that from seemingly overwhelming individual results the combination of the search terms, makes looking for my answers much more manageable .

Successive Fractions Search-WorldCat
Using the database WorldCat accessed through the Texas Woman’s University here is my search for “What are films influence on culture change.” I begin with Specific Facet First
Facet 1 Film* =1,521,623
Facet 2 Influence* =339,852
Facet 3 Attitude* and Change* = 16,608

The combining of the facets into a successive fraction search I receive 2 good hits. Wonderful.



Citation Pearl Growing- Search-Project Muse
Started with D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation”, a controversial film on the attitudes and the reasoning behind them, to illustrate how film can change culture.
I received 4 results in Project Muse using the limiter of Article Title, the best being:

McEwan, Paul.Racist Film: Teaching The Birth of a NationCinema Journal - 47, Number 1, Fall 2007, pp. 98-101 – Article

Adding ‘influence and culture’, and changing the parameters to include “All Fields w/text”, I have enlarged the search to 94 hits relevant to my topic.
All these good hits are now easier to sort through.

Browsing Search-LexisNexis

My last search for the database competency is a browsing search. Using the LexisNexis database I click on the ‘Power Search” tab on the screen. Then I proceed to fill in my search question.

Hitting the radio button to select Natural language I proceed with “films or movies and effect or influence on cultural change.”

My results are 19 hits, which I can now further narrow down by choosing any one of the result groups on the left. Another great asset along with a choice of great results

Multimedia Competencies

Can Your Film Change the World?

While looking for something that would bring my ideas of film influencing culture, I found this on YouTube. The potential power of the project below is inspiring. This is how Jehane Noujaim is empowered film makers into creating understanding and changes with film.

"Here's a big idea: Pangea Day plans to use the power of film to bring the world a little closer together. We're divided by borders, race, religion, conflict... but most of all by misunderstanding a..."(Noujaim,Pangeaday.org)
http://www.pangeaday.org./

Internet Competency

ROTTEN TOMATOES
This web site allow you to see current reviews and previews of new movies as well as old movies. A great site if your choosing videos, DVDs, and games for your organization, because it gives you the commercial information crital to choosing a successful collection in an easy and fun format.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

Beaucoup.com the ultimate source of free information...
This is meta search engine I used to find Rotten Tomatoes web site.

Social Networking Competency

Here is my profile on MySpace, to fulfill the competency on Social Networking. On the MySpace you can view my professional and personal information with regards to educational aspirations.
http://www.myspace.com/alma_neary

Tagging Competency

After reading the article, Dog's Dinner of a System and keeping in mind my subject dissemination of information through moving pictures. How easily we are swayed into purchasing new technology, even before it has been tested thoroughly. As soon as the advertising is in place folks are queueing up to acquiring it. This reminded of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1984 by George Orwell and the silent film Metropolis by Fritz Lang.

Tags used to describe the book Brave New World are so numerous 2,427 that I had to cut out all of the single tags for the book except, "propaganda and mind control" which is my subject, and "you should read this".

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To see the complete tag cloud go to http://www.librarything.com/work/1977 .

RSS Competency

VideoJug - Life Explained On Film

In searching for the RSS feed which will support and help to illustrate my Blog, I was thrilled to find VideoJug. VideoJug specifically fills the needs of visual learners who can now use this site for self-education through film.

Unlike YouTube who allows anyone to download homemade videos and video feeds from television and movies, this site uses leading educators and professional authorities. All of the subjects areas covered are all expertly made. I have chosen for my RSS feed a part of VideoJug that addresses education questions.

Module 3 Finding an appropriate Podcast

Podcasts for Public Service Announcements (PSA) come in all forms on the Internet, from the comical podcast on @ll Robot Radio found at http://www.allrobotradio.com/arr/index.php . This site is for robots to use, in their quest to master human language, to the serious government announcements meant to educate and inform.

The most famous of these educators being the American Ad Council. The Ad Council has been producing films and posters and creating their public service announcements since the start of World War II. Some of the most famous became ingrained into daily vocabulary like "Loose Lips Sink Ships" to help in the war effort and enticing women into the factories with "Rosie the Riveter" www.adcouncil.org/psab/.

The Ad Council still works hard at producing quality films on current important topics like 'bullying', 'Internet predators' and the perennial favorite "Smokey the Bear."

I used Google.com to find my podcast using PSA as my keyword.

Module 2 Linking to another blog

While doing the researching of blogs that deals with my topic, which is about films used for or about wordless education, public announcement films or even successful propaganda has not been easy. With the exception of this one, http://www.tonyvincent.net/. This one advises teachers how to download YouTube videos on to laptops or flash drives so they can be used in classrooms.

"There are lots of great videos on YouTube that you may want to share with students at school. Unfortunately, chances are YouTube is blocked in your building. That doesn't mean you can't use YouTube videos in your classroom. You can use a free web service to download videos from your home Internet connection and bring them back to school on your laptop, flash drive, iPod, or DVD."
Tony Vincent comments on downloading YouTube. posted Tue, 09/04/2007 - 11:15am http://tonyvincent.net/?q=node/33 found with Google Blogs.

ISAR LS 5013

This blog is being created to fulfill my Information Storage and Retrieval competencies. I hope to show how information is still being learned thru film, now and in the past.

The Library of Congress and the New York Public libraries both have extensive film collections. The New York Public Library collection deals with artistic films and videos. Industial films and Public Annoucements Safty films are archived in the Library of Congress.