status update... what is this, facebook?

oh blogger, it's been a while. i don't check you every day life facebook. Maybe you and facebook should switch places...

SATURDAY: was initially a little confused about the project so I took this night as an opportunity to get some smart people's input. So Laura and Luke explained the project to me and we did some initial researching. yippie! Then we treated ourselves to a little fro-yo as a reward for being so focused. hehe.

MONDAY: More research time. I have officially decided to pick Crusades 1, 4, and 7 with the addition of some references to the smaller crusades as well. I felt like that these three crusades would align and work together well and they're all a little different so the Muslims would have several opinions about them.

TUESDAY: Hello Google, it's nice to meet you again.
Some links I found:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/472/bk2_472.htm
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0042.html
http://forums.joeuser.com/100054
http://www.doaks.org/publications/doaks_online_publications/Crusades/CR02.pdf
One problem I found was that some sites are very repetitive so I have decided to try some other search engines tomorrow and see if I get any luckier.

WEDNESDAY: Hello Yahoo, it's been a while. Bing, have we ever met before?
Ah, wikipedia.... I seem to have a little stalker on my case.... It keeps popping up everywhere, but from personal experience, wikipedia and I will be taking a little time apart from each other. It doesn't seem like wiki  is too pleased about that? Do I sense a restraining order?
Yahoo keeps throwing this book called "The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives" which would be a wonderful source if only it wasn't a book... available on google books that I have to buy.
Some sources from yahoo on the crusades:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/news/2001/oct05.html
http://www.imamreza.net/eng/imamreza.php?id=5486
http://atheism.about.com/od/crusades/a/crusadesviews_2.htm

Some sources from bing on the crusades:
http://atheism.about.com/od/crusades/a/crusadesviews_2.htm
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Crusade

Overall, I thought that google worked the best and gave me the most information. Yahoo would lose this competition because it didn't really narrow the search results down for me. It wasn't necessarily very useful. I liked that Bing would change the color of the link if I had clicked it before even if I had clicked it from google or yahoo. That was really nice because then I didn't have to click it again and waste time. Now that I got most of my research done, I'll work on the final proudct tomorrow.
I am hoping to do either a powerpoint or an animation because I feel like, personally, those two things help me understand and learn topics the best since they are very easy to follow and sometimes can be entertaining.