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Monday, December 24, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Assignment 5 - What Spaghetti Sauce can teach us.
Here is an interesting lecture given by one of my favorite writers for the New Yorker: Malcolm Gladwell. Watch it, and let me know (1) if you made it to the end, which is the most interesting part, and (2) what you think.
To see the video, click here.
To see the video, click here.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Assignment 4 - Web research tips
This week, you will be asked once again to do some research on the web. However, this time, you will have to be a bit more careful about the sites that you find on the internet. You can do this by investigating the sources of the information on the sites. Here's how:
1) TRUNCATION: erase all of the characters of the original homepage URL. (Example: www.website.com/info/blahblahblah.etc - everything after .com should be erased. Then, hit return to see which organization has published the site!)
2) ABOUT US: Go to the bottom of the page and click on the words "about us" or words that indicate who might be behind the site.
3) GOOGLE the author: If there is a name on the article, write the name with inverted commas ("name surname")on the google search line and see if that person has any authority to write about that subject. You would be surprised at how much you can learn about people!
4) BIBLIOGRAPHY: Any article, especially about scientific subjects, should have a bibliography, or at least a list of sources. If a research group is named, google it!
Just to show you how it works, let's use this example:
I googled "Martin Luther King", and then chose one of the first sites on my screen. The address is http://www.martinlutherking.org/articles.html
If you follow the steps in order, you will be surprised! Then, do the same thing with a new site chosen from the clusty cloud. When you have investigated the site/article, write to me and tell me whether you think the information is likely to be reliable, false, or something in-between. Good luck!
1) TRUNCATION: erase all of the characters of the original homepage URL. (Example: www.website.com/info/blahblahblah.etc - everything after .com should be erased. Then, hit return to see which organization has published the site!)
2) ABOUT US: Go to the bottom of the page and click on the words "about us" or words that indicate who might be behind the site.
3) GOOGLE the author: If there is a name on the article, write the name with inverted commas ("name surname")on the google search line and see if that person has any authority to write about that subject. You would be surprised at how much you can learn about people!
4) BIBLIOGRAPHY: Any article, especially about scientific subjects, should have a bibliography, or at least a list of sources. If a research group is named, google it!
Just to show you how it works, let's use this example:
I googled "Martin Luther King", and then chose one of the first sites on my screen. The address is http://www.martinlutherking.org/articles.html
If you follow the steps in order, you will be surprised! Then, do the same thing with a new site chosen from the clusty cloud. When you have investigated the site/article, write to me and tell me whether you think the information is likely to be reliable, false, or something in-between. Good luck!
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