Mapping Information Activity

      I really enjoyed this activity although I was a little confused about this activity when I first read the instruction and still I'm not too sure about it, but I understand it now a little better. Before the mapping activity I conducted my online search my typing in Google I really never used excite or Bing search engines at all. I felt like Google was much better than those search engine. So I would use the Google search engine to pull up my information that way. I hardly ever went directly straight to any website unless it was to fill out information or look up information about that particular website, like to fill out applications. I already knew about the different kinds of search engines and the different search techniques already before doing this activity.

     After doing the mapping activity I do not think my habits will change unless it is better than what I am doing now. I will continue to search the way I am searching now in the future by using different search engines like Google, yahoo, or Bing. what I notice about the difference search engines on the specific topic or website that I picked witch was "Victorian Robots" was that when you go to the different search engines it would pull up everything about Victorian Robots and all the related sources about Victorian Robots on each search engine. I also noticed that Google search engine had 2,460,000 results, Bing had 1,850,000 results, and Excite search engine did not list the amount of results on Victorian Robots. This knowledge will affect my teaching to me in a positive way, because I can show my students that it is ok to go straight to the website itself but if you use search engines you will get all different types of information concerning that topic on what you are searching for and you will have different references and sources. My future students may or may not be affected by this and if they do it will be again in a positive way, because they would know how to search for different things and know how to research different things quicker and faster.

   In conclusion, I enjoyed this mapping activity and I learned a lot that I did not already know about mapping. I learned how these different search engines have different information about the same topic, how many different results that came up on these search engines and all of the related topics concerning the main topic which was Victorian Robots. I think that this will be a very good activity to show and do with the students and each students will benefit from this activity because they will know the difference between going directly to a website and than using different search engines to search for a topic. I think that different search is great because you can gather all types of good information and create a great paper because you have differencent sources you can go to by using different search engines.