Adapting To Technology

What kind of technology user are you? Take the Pew Internet & American Life Project Internet Typology Survey and find out. The survey is designed to measure how internet users and their online pursuits have changed over time.

Study Examines Student Research Behavior

Beyond Google: How Do Students Conduct Academic Research? is a departure from the findings of some other research studies on the topic. The study used student discussion groups, content analysis, and a student survey to determine that students may not be relying as exclusively as previously thought on search engine results and Wikipedia for research in lieu of library catalogs and databases.

Who's Doing What on the Web

An article from Business Week discusses demographics and activities of Web users. For demographic breakdown of your institution, try contacting the institutional research services at your college.

--Jason Setzer
Reference Librarian
Davidson County Community College

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

This site features online teaching and learning resources from federal agencies. The link goes to a site map of their current list of resources by subject. There's an RSS feed at the top of the screen if you want to keep up with new additions to the site.

The Internet As It Was

Use the Internet Wayback Machine to view archived web pages from 1996 to the present. You can search for a specific web page or view topical collections of web pages such as the 2000 election, September 11, etc. Try it!