Getting%20Started%20with%20Online%20Research%20A%20Case%20Study

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Getting Started with Online ResearchA Case Study
Chapter 6 PART 1
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• Use a Google search for Buckminster and Fuller.
• How many hits do you get?
• How about Altavista? How many hits?

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Discovering R. Buckminster Fuller

• Searching on Buckminster Fuller yields too many
  hits
• Lets check a biography to get specific terms
• www.biography.com/search/
• www.infoplease.com/people.html
• amillionlives.com

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Biography.com biography of Buckminster Fuller
Margaret Fuller?
Dymaxion
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Expanding the view

• Try the google search again including the word
  Dymaxion
• Buckminster and Fuller and biography and
  Dymaxion
• Who is Margaret Fuller?
• (We can use the same biography site.)

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Biography.com excerpt for Margaret Fuller, RBFs
great aunt
Tradgedy
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About.com biography of Buckminster Fuller
Descriptive term
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5 Foot 2?

• Lets find some images
• http//images.google.com/images
• Look on page 19

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Three pictures of R. Buckminster Fuller
Google gives the ability to search for images
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Other About.com links from bio of R. Buckminster
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R. Buckminster Fuller

• Primary Sources what does that mean?
• Try googling
• Buckminster Guinea Pig B and follow the public
  tv station WNET

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Excerpt from WNETs Guinea Pig B page
Search on Guinea Pig B hits a gold mine 1st hit
WNET
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Start of Applewhites essay at the Guinea Pig B
site
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Start of Allegra Fuller Snyders essay at Guinea
Pig B site
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Excerpt from DeVarcos essay at the WNET Guinea
Pig B site
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Start of Feldmans essay at the Guinea Pig B
site
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Any videoclips?

• Return to the WNET site and cruise for some
  videoclips

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Buckminster Fuller Institute chronology of RBFs
life
Guinea Pig B search 2nd hit Buckminster Fuller
Institute
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Dymaxion Mapan unfolding of a projection of
Earth onto an icosahedron.
BFI site has animation of unfolding of Dymaxion
Map
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Geodesic Domefrom the U.S. Pavilion at the
Montreal Expo 67
What does geodesic mean
Lets check out some online dictionaries
for geodesic and icosahedron
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Defintion for Geodesic and Icosahedron
Now lets look at some secondary resources
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Excerpt from Kirby Urners biography of R.
Buckminster Fuller at www.grunch.net/synergetics/b
io.html
Urner says there is a dispute over Fullers
inventions
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Ken Snelsons structure at the heart of
controversy with RBF
Snelson, an artist, claims to have invented the
ideas Fuller calls tensegrity
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Images of buckminster fullerene, C60 and C70
(also known as fullerenes or buckyballs).
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The Nobel Prize site for discovery of
buckminsterfullerene