What did Harriet Tubman do in the Civil War as a nurse?
eTrekker checks Ellen’s spelling and identifies the keywords in her question, such as Harriet Tubman, Civil War, and nurse. Ellen presses the search button and eTrekker lists ten websites that match her search criteria. eTrekker’s interface presents a search engine environment free of distracting advertisements and extraneous information. Ellen selects a few sites to visit, goes to those sites, and, using the reading supports of eReader, which she has also opened on her computer, selects the read feature to have information read aloud to her. eTrekker keeps her research question and keywords on the screen, helping her to maintain focus on the nursing aspect of Tubman’s life, rather than her role in the Underground Railroad. Ellen highlights and pastes information into the onscreen notepad and generates some of her own notes on the topic. When she finishes her Internet search, eTrekker stores her research question and keywords, the websites she has visited, and her notes so that she can
