Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Introduction Question
Monday, November 14, 2011
Best and Worst Webquests
Which two of example WebQuests listed below are the best ones? Why?
The Underground Railroads and The Grow School Greens websites were the best in our opinion. They had the best information and were easy to follow.
Which two are the worst? Why?
We thought that the Ancient Egypt Webquest and the We all scream for Ice Cream were the worst. The information was not clear enough and there wasn't enough of it to help the the students learn anything.
What do best and worst mean to you?
Best to us meant the ones that had the most productive information and that was thorough in presenting it to the children. Worst meant that the information was not clear and not enough there to help the students get anything out of the page.
The Underground Railroads and The Grow School Greens websites were the best in our opinion. They had the best information and were easy to follow.
Which two are the worst? Why?
We thought that the Ancient Egypt Webquest and the We all scream for Ice Cream were the worst. The information was not clear enough and there wasn't enough of it to help the the students learn anything.
What do best and worst mean to you?
Best to us meant the ones that had the most productive information and that was thorough in presenting it to the children. Worst meant that the information was not clear and not enough there to help the students get anything out of the page.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Blogging
1. What do you like or dislike about keeping a blog for this course?
I think keeping a blog for this class is a creative and fun way of posting assignments, although blogging really just isn't my thing.
2. How can keeping a blog make you a more effective teacher?
It is using new ideas and getting the students involved with technology for media literacy.
3. Will you consider continuing to post to your blog after this course is over? Why? Probably not, only because I post for assignments and once class is over I won't really need to anymore, although I do think that one day once I become a teacher that it could be something I could use in the classroom.
4. Keeping a blog helps you develop four new media literacies:
-Give me a concrete example of how blogging in this class is evidence of your abilities to do one of these four new media literacies:
I feel that one of the big things that we could use in our blogging is Collective Intelligence, the ability to share knowledge and compare notes with each other toward a common goal. I think that sometimes if there is an assignment that is posted and one person is not sure how to do it, if another person has already posted their assignment it could be a big help and they can get an idea on what to do from that. Therefore we are sharing notes with one another and both are trying to reach that common goal of completing an assignment.
I think keeping a blog for this class is a creative and fun way of posting assignments, although blogging really just isn't my thing.
2. How can keeping a blog make you a more effective teacher?
It is using new ideas and getting the students involved with technology for media literacy.
3. Will you consider continuing to post to your blog after this course is over? Why? Probably not, only because I post for assignments and once class is over I won't really need to anymore, although I do think that one day once I become a teacher that it could be something I could use in the classroom.
4. Keeping a blog helps you develop four new media literacies:
-Give me a concrete example of how blogging in this class is evidence of your abilities to do one of these four new media literacies:
I feel that one of the big things that we could use in our blogging is Collective Intelligence, the ability to share knowledge and compare notes with each other toward a common goal. I think that sometimes if there is an assignment that is posted and one person is not sure how to do it, if another person has already posted their assignment it could be a big help and they can get an idea on what to do from that. Therefore we are sharing notes with one another and both are trying to reach that common goal of completing an assignment.
Wikipedia Assignment
a. What is Wikipedia? Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project based on an openly editable model.
b. How would you answer the question posed in this piece “How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?”? Based on the video that we watched the other day during class, it proves that they keep an eye on who is editing their site and if it is an unknown address it is quickly looked at to be sure it is reliable.
c. Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation? The individual Wikipedia editors are the ones that are in charge of this and the individuals that view the site regularly.
d. Why did founder Larry Sanger leave Wikipedia? Basically because he wanted it to be more professionally input based.
e. What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page? It would be in the form of inaccuraate or falsified/misleading information that was intentionally put on the site by an individual.
f. What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal? That Wikipedia is a very popular website for users that need information.
g. Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful? Because people use it all the time to find answers to specific topics, and wikipedia has nearly any and every topic on it.
h. Why might Wikipedia’s creators not want to accept advertising?
Because it could very easily distract from the page itself and the users may start going off their website onto other sites from these advertisements, plus they are a pain to deal with honestly.
i. How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries?
It decreases abuse because it checks the editors info to see if that person or group is reliable in facts and if they are unbiased in their view/talking points.
Source:
Cohen, Noam. "Wikipedia." New York Times. (2009): n. page. Print..
b. How would you answer the question posed in this piece “How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?”? Based on the video that we watched the other day during class, it proves that they keep an eye on who is editing their site and if it is an unknown address it is quickly looked at to be sure it is reliable.
c. Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation? The individual Wikipedia editors are the ones that are in charge of this and the individuals that view the site regularly.
d. Why did founder Larry Sanger leave Wikipedia? Basically because he wanted it to be more professionally input based.
e. What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page? It would be in the form of inaccuraate or falsified/misleading information that was intentionally put on the site by an individual.
f. What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal? That Wikipedia is a very popular website for users that need information.
g. Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful? Because people use it all the time to find answers to specific topics, and wikipedia has nearly any and every topic on it.
h. Why might Wikipedia’s creators not want to accept advertising?
Because it could very easily distract from the page itself and the users may start going off their website onto other sites from these advertisements, plus they are a pain to deal with honestly.
i. How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries?
It decreases abuse because it checks the editors info to see if that person or group is reliable in facts and if they are unbiased in their view/talking points.
Source:
Cohen, Noam. "Wikipedia." New York Times. (2009): n. page. Print.
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