Hi, everybody. A new challenge have started for me this time and I want to do my best to don't have any problem and pass this better than before. I'm here to share with you some things about this new class, called "Multimedia and Internet Resources" in this new semester that we begun recently this week.
The first class was interesting and comfortable, because we've already known the teacher, Miss Wilma Suarez, and we know also she is an expert in this academic field. We started to know how we are going to work with her and all the resources we are going to use. It sounds a little difficult, but I know it is going to be useful today, and in our future lives as teachers or whatever we're going to be.
One of the dangers of the Internet is you can find many pages related to
a topic or subject, but not all could help you with reliable
information. This time, we receive information about "Evaluating Web Pages", because is important to know many aspects BEFORE to choose information from an unreliable web page. For researching in a better way and avoid using wrong information, you have to be careful and look for some clues, as:
- The URL and the domain: It could show you about who is the provider of that information and, if the page is controlled by an institution, to search if that exist or it's real information.
- The author's credibility: Many pages could contain uploaded information by people who had given their personal point of view, without enough academic or historical investigation. So, to search the author's data in a web page can help us to verify his or her credibility and accuracy in a topic.
- Quality: Links, dates and footnotes are really useful to know about the author's resources, and how often the author update his or her web page content. If links don't work, or there aren't new upload information, the web page could be suspicious.
- Others' opinion and contributions: Reliable web pages have unbiased information, and contain links related with others' point of view. Other authors or pages could contain information about the owner or the author of a web page, and also other authors could exchange information, collaborate to do some articles, or recommend others to use that web page.
Those things are going to help us to be more observant, and to do better research. I think also all this information could help me to have better grades, and to be more reflective with thing I get from the web, because in my professional life, I need to have reliable information to share with students, and don't confuse them.
The Internet is a huge source of information, and the greatest way of communication and entertainment today, but free expression could confuse people and many people could say anything they want. It's important to identify and recognize if a web page could be useful or don't. Be careful and pay attention next time when you're searching information, because not all in the Internet is the truth.
Well, I thinks that's all for today. I'll be back next week to share more about I'm learning this semester, and I have here an interesting video to help you more with this topic. I hope it could be helpful.
See ya!VeroElis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4nmiJLhB5c&feature=related
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