Annotations Work Day 1

So, today out of 13 sources that I have cited on my Webliography I currently have 5 sources completed with annotations. The first draft of the Webliography with annotations is due in one week Monday March 1st. I'll be able to finish these annotations and citations by Wednesday most likely. Then, I'll finally be able to go back to gathering information on my topic as well as a possible "expert to interview" in mind.

I'm starting to hate annotations, but they have to be done and that I'm not going to argue with.

Friday, the First FULL Day back

So I just completed my Webliography assignment that was due today.

Now, I currently have 13 citations on my own webliography which I'll start to add the annotations to them today as well as next week since they're due March 1st. It shouldn't take me too long, hopefully.

I also found a couple of articles in a couple of my mom's TIMES magazines which would really help me to understand where the recession is taking people and how the U.S. wants or needs to fix the recession issues.

21 Plus inches of SNOW, but there's progress!

So, we have been off for an entire week due to the snow storm that we got. We were supposed to finish our citations for our webliography last week, but I currently have 13 citations printed out and on my easybib so that is completed. I've also found 7 print sources for our trip to the Carnegie Library in Oakland.

So far I've compelted both weekly goals that we were supposed to have done so now I'm going back to taking notes which I have notes for 10 of my questions! =]

Sources:

Works Cited

Allen, Paddy. "Global recession - where did all the money go? | Business | guardian.co.uk." Latest news, comment and reviews from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk. Guardian News and Media Limited, 29 Jan. 2009. Web. 03 Feb. 2010. .

Brennan, Richard J. "Recession's toll seen in record food bank spike - thestar.com." News, Toronto, GTA, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Canada, World, Breaking - thestar.com. Toronto Star., 17 Nov. 2009. Web. 02 Feb. 2010. .

Eng, Elizabeth. "National Bureau of Economic Research Declares Recession -." Associated Content - associatedcontent.com. Associated Contect. Inc., 1 Dec. 2008. Web. 02 Feb. 2010. .

Fraser, Ross. "New USDA Statistics Highlight Growing Hunger Crisis In The U.S." Feeding America. Feeding America Inc., 17 Nov. 2008. Web. 03 Feb. 2010. .

Hall, Ed. "U.S. National Debt Clock." Ed Hall's Home Page. Ed Hall., 1 Feb. 2010. Web. 03 Feb. 2010. .

"Late-2000s recession." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikimedia, 2 Feb. 2010. Web. 03 Feb. 2010. .

"Personal Bankruptcies Surge 10% | RECESSION.ORG." RECESSION.ORG United States Economy & Global Economic Recession. 4 Nov. 2009. Web. 02 Feb. 2010. .

Pettinger, Tejvan R. "The Problem with Printing Money." Web log post. Economic Blog. Economic Blog, 7 Aug. 2008. Web. 4 Feb. 2010. .

"Unemployment Packs A Bigger Punch | RECESSION.ORG." RECESSION.ORG United States Economy & Global Economic Recession. 8 Nov. 2009. Web. 02 Feb. 2010. .

"US GDP Definiton & Formula | RECESSION.ORG." RECESSION.ORG United States Economy & Global Economic Recession. Web. 02 Feb. 2010. .

"What Is Recession? Economic Recession Definition | RECESSION.ORG." RECESSION.ORG United States Economy & Global Economic Recession. Web. 02 Feb. 2010. .

"Which Age Group Has Been Most Affected by the Recession?" The Money Stop - Personal Finance Tips And Articles. The Money Stop., 6 Aug. 2009. Web. 02 Feb. 2010. .

"You can help!" Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Web. 02 Feb. 2010. .

Reflection Blog - Independent Learning Week 5

Understanding the Task - Advanced
Setting Personal Goals - Advanced
Gathering Resources - Advanced
Accessing Previously Learned Information - Advanced
Managing Your Time - Advanced
Controlling for Quality - Advanced

Reasoning:

• I chose advanced for gathering resources because as I continued my research I only needed 10 sources wih citations, but I'm recorded information on 10 out of the 15 foundation questions I have as well as cited the sources which total 13 instead of 10.
• I also chose advanced for Managing Your Time because all this week I determined how long it would take me to do certain assignments and then judged how much time i actually had to do them. Currently, I'm up to date on all my assignments and work with more that what is required as well as I've began looking up print sources from the Main Branch Library which we don't start to do until next week, and I already have 7 sources.
  

Did you know...?

1. Our current recession is the LONGEST running recession to date, spanning 24 months and counting.
2. Unemployment has hit a new high of 10.5%!!
3. One in seven people in the greater Pittsburgh area don't get enough to eat.
4. 25 Million people use food banks each year!
5. 900,000 vacant homes are currently in the U.S. due to the recession!
6. Failure of just two banks totals $850 million dollars in costs for the FDIC.
7. Average Person has about 40,000 in debt and is growing regardless of recession.
8. National debt is growing an average of 3.9 billion per day since September 2007.
9. Oil Barrel Prices peaked at $147.30 a barrel in January of 2008.