URVASHI VAID PRESENTATION

1 What were your expectations prior to attending this event? What did you know about the topic before you attended the event?

I was expecting that the program will be all about LGBT population. I expected that I might gain more knowledge about them. Before I attended that program I knew little about LGBT population that they are not treated equally.

2 How was the information presented? Did the information presented at the event differ in any way from what you had learned or believed in the past? How?

Urvashi Vaid talked about the history of LGBT population and talked about some movements that took place to provide equality for LGBT population. Nope, the information presented at the event did not differ in any way from what I had learned or believed in the past. I knew that LGBT were discriminated, but they were protesting for equal right.

3 What was one thing that you learned from this event that you did not know, or had never heard, before?

 I did not know about Urvashi Vaid and that she was LGBT activist.

4 Did the personal, professional, or academic background make the speaker an authority on the topic? Why or why not?

Yes, the personal, professional, or academic background made the speaker an authority on the topic because she has good knowledge about the population. She is a lesbian, has worked as LGBT activist and she is a lawyer.  She is a member  of that population so, she knows better than other heterosexual person.

5 What can you take away from this presentation to assist you in your Alternative Viewpoints paper?

From this presentation, I got more idea that about people protesting against discrimination of LGBT population.

6 If someone in the class had the opportunity to ask a question, how did the speaker respond? Was their answer satisfactory to you? Why or why not?

Some audience asked few questions about her presentation, the speaker responded well. Yes, her answers were satisfactory to me.   She tried to explain more understandably.

Archive, special collections & digital collections/ research 101

Assignment 22: Blog Entry: Have you ever done original research before?  Based on what you learned in IM 204 or your own experience, what makes original research different from library research?  How does library research support or guide original research?  What are the pros and cons of library research, compared to original research?  What critical thinking skills are involved in both types of research?  What critical thinking skill, in your opinion, is the most important for library research?  For original research?  Why?

Nope, I have never done original research before.  Original research is totally different from library research. In original research, one should go to the field for research, should deal with people of that specific population. One should develop the right research design and ask right questions to the people who are connected with that population. Such research gives more accurate data than library research.

Before doing original research, library research support or guide researchers by giving some information about them and helping them to create list of right questions which will give accurate result after research. Compared to original research, the cons of library research are there is lots of information, so that it is difficult to get the accurate result for my research. I should know all the possible words to search something like for the word gay I should know the possible term like “homosexual”. I should have the good knowledge about the keywords and truncations. For e.g. use the word teen* for teenagers. All the researchers used different terminology to express their feelings. However, the database has particular descriptors. When both of them don’t not match then it will be difficult to search for accurate result.

  The critical thinking skills involved in both research are observation, interpretation, analysis, inference and evaluation. For library research evaluation, interpretation and analysis are applicable. For original research evaluation, observation and inference are more applicable.

checking in

Assignment 20: Blog Entry: “Checking In.”  What successes and challenges are you currently having with your semester research project, and preparing for your presentation?  What other successes and challenges are you having with other research projects for your classes, or everyday research?

The challenges I am getting now is while doing the library research, there is lots of information, so that it is difficult to get the accurate result for my research. I should know all the possible words to search something like for the word gay the possible term is “homosexual”. I should have the good knowledge about the truncations. For e.g. use the word teen* for teenagers. All the researchers used different terminology to express their feelings. However, the database has particular descriptors. When both of them don’t not match then it will be difficult to search for accurate result. Other than these, there are no difficulties in doing research about my population.

Government documents and Statistics

Assignment 19 Find some statistical information about your research topic from a government document and a scholarly journal article.  Does each resource indicate how the data was collected and/or analyzed?  Why or why not?  Please list the resources that you used for the assignment in APA format.

Yes, both government document and scholarly indicate how the data was collected.  It has included citation after each data.

The list of the resources that was used for the assignments are

Minnesota Legislative Reference Library (2012, April 2) Resources of Minnesota Issues  Same- Sex in Minnesota. Retrieved from           http://www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/issues/issues.aspx?issue=gay

Shulman, J. L., Gotta, G., & Green, R. (2012). Will Marriage Matter? Effects of Marriage Anticipated by Same-Sex Couples. Journal Of Family Issues, 33(2), 158-181. doi:10.1177/0192513X11406228

websites/ copyright, fair use, and open access

Assignment 17: Blog Entry: What is your definition of “intellectual property”?  What is an “expert’s” definition of intellectual property?  What examples of intellectual property, from academic or everyday life, can you name?  How does the concept of intellectual property change when it can be manipulated and shared?

My definition of “intellectual property” is the creative work done by people. “Intellectual property” is any kind of creative work of the mind. It can include invention, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs. The examples of intellectual property can be a photograph, pictures or paintings. The concept of intellectual property can be changed if we do proper citation or create a license in “Creative Common” to use others intellectual property.

Google 101

Assignment 14: Blog Entry: During Google 101, what did you learn that you did not know before?  How has this changed your opinion about Google, or looking for resources online?  How will you use the new Google tools (or online research strategies) in doing other types of research, whether for school or for “real life” situations?

I did not know that we can find scholars and blogs in Google. I thought information in Google was written just by random people, but I was wrong. After knowing more about Google, I will use Google tools like Google scholar, Google blogs and Google books for my other researches, whether for school or for “real life”.

newspaper and blogs (assignment 13)

Assignment 13: Blog Entry: Review the semester research assignment questions.  Based on the research you have done so far, how many questions can you answer?  Where do you need help? 

After researching a lot, most of my questions were answered. I mainly need help to find accurate resources while doing library research.

newspaper and blogs

Assignment 12: Blog Entry: There is some debate over whether or not blogs are legitimate forms of scholarship or news.  Based on your experience with blogs, what is your opinion about that, and why? Please provide a link to an entry on your research topic from a particular blog to use as an example to prove your point, and explain why the entry illustrates why this blog may or may not be a legitimate form of scholarship or news.  At the end of your entry, list the APA works cited entry for this blog, as well as any other resource you have used for this journal entry.

According to my experiences, I think blogs are legitimate forms of scholarship or news because people write blogs only on contemporary issues. Their blogs can be read by all the people in the world, and can evaluate his ideas. http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2011/09/gay_marriage_amendment_minnesota_state_fair_poll.php

This blog entry has mentioned about the current attitudes of Minnesotan and how they are supporting same sex marriage. It has included that Minnesotans are on the march to support gay marriage. They are ok to legalize gay marriage. The people who have been rejecting same sex marriage are getting low day by day. The survey taken place to get the views of the people found that about 66.5 % of the people were for the gay marriage and about 30% were against of the gay marriage.

M Mike. (2006, Sep. 6). Gay marriage ban voted down at the State Fair. (Web blog post).     Retrieved from http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2011/09/gay_marriage_amendment_minnesota_state_fair_poll.php