| Online Project -- Culinary Arts & Hospitality Management Purpose To demonstrate proficiency in using the Internet to search for quality resources to apply to specific information problems.
To complete this project, you can use computers in the Computer Technology Center (Building 1400). Call first to check for hours 477-5286. Lab computers have Word, Excel, and offer access to the Internet. If you are totally unfamiliar with the basics of using the Internet, you might want to explore resources offered on the Internet and Library Instruction page. Librarians in the Library can also offer assistance to the unitiated.
Two ways to do this project.
1) You can print out this project and fill in your responses in ink. If taking this option, fill in your name here:
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2) If you are working at a computer that has simultaneous access to the Internet and to word processing, open a word processing document, put your name and date at the top, and type Optional Project for Culinary Arts. Label each Activity as you type up your responses.
Activity 1
| As a culinary arts student, you're thinking you should know something about the history of things like eating utensils -- suppose you become a famous chef, and someone asks you about the history of the fork! You'd want to know! |
YOUR SOLUTION
1.Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2.Click on Internet Links
3. Select Culinary Arts --These Internet links are all selected as quality resources for culinary arts and related topics. You might want to spend some time exploring them!
4.Under Specific Aspects, click on History of Eating Utensils.
Note down something that interests you about the history of the fork (or spoon; or something!):
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Activity 2
| You've grown to like curry, and a friend returns from Britain and tells you that the "best curry in the world" is served at The Curry House over there. Can you find recipes from Curry House to fix for your friend? |
YOUR SOLUTION
From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, select Search the Internet. Using Google, enter search statements such as:
 "curry house" recipe |
When formulating search statements, be sure to put quotation marks around phrases to keep the words together
Web sites you found. Write down complete URLs, and a brief description:
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Activity 3
You have a new friend and she comes from Oaxaca, Mexico. You'd like to invite her over to dinner. Can you find an article about food from Oaxaca? |
YOUR SOLUTION
1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, select Fulltext Articles [If you are accessing these resources for off-campus, your library card number is your user ID.]
2. Click on Magazine & Journal Articles (EBSCOhost); then on EBSCOhost Web.
3. Once you are connected to the database, select Advanced Search. Search for your article using keywords such as Oaxaca on one line, and food on the next.
Title of the article:______________________________________
Print out at least one page of the article and attach it to what you turn in. If you are using word processing software to do this project, you might want to copy and paste one of the images into your document. Make sure to give credit to where you copied it from.
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Turn in your project (these pages printed out, with your responses, or your word processed document) to your WE Instructor and to Leslie Read by date in the time line specified in your learning objectives.
If you have questions or need additional information, contact Leslie Read, the CWEE Coordinator, or the CWEE Office in 2100B, lower campus. Office hours are Mon. through Thurs. 1 - 4 pm. The office phone is 831.477.5650.
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