After
completing the MAPping information activity, what are your reactions to your
findings? What will you do differently while searching on the Internet for
information now? How confident are you with the information you've used in the
past (as part of your college career and/or in your profession)?
After completing the
activity, I was a little taken aback by the lack of information I knew
concerning websites and there authenticity. What concerned me most was that I
didn’t know I was ignorant to the many aspects of a websites. The quiz
initially concerned me because I felt like I should have scored better. I
didn’t even know what Boolean search terms were. I always thought that .org
sites where more reliable than .com sites but I was wrong. They can both be
equally unsafe. What else I found interesting is that my school district uses
the extension .net and it made me wonder how other people view us based on
those three little letters. Every aspect of this exercise was extremely
important to me but I found the easywhois.com to be most impressive. I felt
like I was looking at the birth certificate, social security card, and I.D. of
the website. I am just amazed that I didn’t know you could find out so much
about a website. I will be more selective when I am searching the web from now
on. When conducting research. I now have the capabilities of finding creditable
sites that I might be able to use. This makes me extremely happy because I
never really wanted to rely on random information I found on the web. In the past I just used websites to elaborate
on what I found in books, journals, or articles. Now, I can confidently utilize
other web resources. The tools I learned in this activity will help me
tremendously in deciphering from the good, the bad, and the ugly of websites. I
felt like a private investigator for the web throughout this activity and it
makes me feel empowered and knowledgeable about searching the web.
What
are some implications for the future of our students if we fail to teach them
these skills in school? After all, the schools may block access to sites, but
students still have access at home.
If
we fail to teach our student these skills in searching and utilizing websites,
than we will have a lot of misinformed people in the world. Also, our students
will start to distrust everything they read on the internet which will diminish
the information that is beneficial and correct out there. Research will become
more invalid and student work will suffer for it. Not having this knowledge
open the door for a lot of more people to become information illiterate than
literate.
Do you see any advantages for organizing your
information via Delicious and/or Google Reader? What are some ways you think
you could use these tools in the future?
One
advantage of organizing your information is that you can categorize your
information and have easy access to it when you need it. Before, I would scroll
down a long list of sites and that would frustrate me because it took so long
to find what I needed. Now, I can click on the category and eliminate other
sites I am not interested in. Also, the share feature is absolutely wonderful
because I work for 16 elementary schools and it is a lot easier to share the
information I have via Delicious than going to every teacher. In the future, I
would like to set up an account for my daughter or students that have sites I
have approved for them to go to. This would make it easier for her or them to
just go directly to the site from delicious than me walking around trying to
find it in favorites or creating a short cut to it on the desktop.
Blinklist - A free tool that provides annotation,
metagging, and topic or name searches.
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Blinklist is very user friendly and
fast. It took know time setting up an account. I am having trouble getting the
icon on my tool bar. Overall, I would recommend it to others to use. I liked
that you could import from Delicious as well. Most of bookmark had their
pictures as well.
Diigo - Research and collaborative research tool on
the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the
other
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What I like about this site is that, not
only does it tag web pages for you, but it allows you to highlight any part of
a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page.
You can leave little messages for yourself and others you share with.
Del.icio.us - A free tool that provides annotation,
metagging, and topic or name searches.
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Delicious was a little frustrating at
first because it would not let me log in. It is also very user friendly like
Blinklist but I look the home page a little more. Delicious imported my bookmarks
very fast which was great. Also, most of my bookmarks have pictures as well.
Stumble Upon - Finds websites based on interest
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I like that it recommends web content to
its users. It also allow users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and
videos that are personalized to their tastes and interests. I really like this
feature because when you share with some else than can know how you
thoughts.
Toobla - A visual boorkmarking service that captures
screenshots of the linked page.
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Toobla has been working on their site so
I didn’t have much of an opportunity to really look at it. I like the way they
take screenshots of your book marks. That makes it really easy to find what
site you are looking for.
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