In Writing & Computers we had no Monday class. In place of the class was an important Web research assignment where we had to learn to become more critical of Internet sites we use. I learned that we have to check any URL we use, look at the search engine (Google, Yahoo!, etc.) listings of sites, and we have to watch for scams, urban legends, and parody sites. Below are the Web sites we had to visit to complete the assignments (and these sites include a few quizzes). You also may want to take a look at the example sites linked on these pages.
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html
http://library.albany.edu/usered/eval/evalweb/
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill26.htm
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/webeval.html
On Wednesday we turned in that assignment and had further discussion of it.
On Friday we watched a funny three-minute zombie YouTube clip (funny for two reasons: 1. It is close to Halloween, and 2. I was feeling like a zombie for only having had four hours of sleep Thursday night/Friday morning).
Then we watched a more serious YouTube video on Wikipedia.
This group of collaborators (who apparently, humorously, don't get along) discussed the positives and negatives of using it in research and editing.
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