One school week left in 2007. . . are you feelin' it? Wrap up your work in chem by completing this blog assignment, then you're off the hook until 2008!
The goal of this assignment is two-fold.
1) I'd like you to research your topic a bit more, using internet searches and the U of D database resources available to us. (If you haven't used the UD databases much, take this opportunity to try them out. You need a password if you're using them; Mrs. Graham has these on handouts in the library.) Save any interesting links in your link list.
2) While researching, be thinking about a more specific approach to the topic you've chosen. It would make sense to divide your topic into 2 or 3 different ideas for exploration, and then note what resources/information you are finding. Are you finding the right information for your original path of interest, or are you finding new ideas within your topic area that you want to explore now?
So, to demonstrate the work that you've done related to this assignment, post some new links back to resources. Then write a paragraph post that outlines the thoughts you've been thinking about how to refine your topic. (What specific ideas are coming up in your area of interest?) Report as to whether you've actually been able to find information about these more specific areas, or whether you're having trouble.
Lastly, visit three other blogs from our group, and read the last posts about monitoring reliability of web resources. Please leave a helpful contribution to the ideas that your classmate has expressed. Leave me the students' names of the blogs you visited in your last post. (That helps me to find your comments more easily.)
Thanks for blogging
JV
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
RESEARCH WITH DISCRIMINATION
Hello, Cool Chem Chids.
You did a nice job with your Link Lists as you gathered a first-round of websites for your research- a fine start to our adventure into real-world chemistry. In this week's blog, I'd like to pursue the idea of the reliability of our resources. Only ding-a-lings believe everything they see and read on the world wide web; and I trust that through your years of research, you've become very discerning about the reliability and veracity of your internet resources.
Think with me for a moment about finding information on the internet. Ask yourself these questions:
When you find a site, what features of it are indicative to you that the information contained can be trusted?
What actions should you take, once you find an article that seems to meet your needs, to ascertain the reliability of the source?
Are there any things that you do routinely or have been taught to do in order to "test" the information for accuracy and lack of bias?
What strategies do you use or do you think you/others should use?
Please write a post for your blog that explains, explores, or expounds on these ideas. These are really important things for us to think about, so I'll ask, in our next assignment, for others to read your blog and to compare their ideas to yours.
Also, it's time to make a final decision about what your topic will be for this project. So, if you haven't made up your mind, please do so and be definitive about it in this blog. If you've already made the decision, I should be able to find that in your previous blogs. Just check to be sure that you have "declared" your topic somewhere.
There two things to take care of then, for your blog: 1) paragraph or two about how to judge the credibility and value of internet sites and 2) make sure you've committed to a topic.
This assignment is due at 12 noon on December 7, EST.
Blog away!!
You did a nice job with your Link Lists as you gathered a first-round of websites for your research- a fine start to our adventure into real-world chemistry. In this week's blog, I'd like to pursue the idea of the reliability of our resources. Only ding-a-lings believe everything they see and read on the world wide web; and I trust that through your years of research, you've become very discerning about the reliability and veracity of your internet resources.
Think with me for a moment about finding information on the internet. Ask yourself these questions:
When you find a site, what features of it are indicative to you that the information contained can be trusted?
What actions should you take, once you find an article that seems to meet your needs, to ascertain the reliability of the source?
Are there any things that you do routinely or have been taught to do in order to "test" the information for accuracy and lack of bias?
What strategies do you use or do you think you/others should use?
Please write a post for your blog that explains, explores, or expounds on these ideas. These are really important things for us to think about, so I'll ask, in our next assignment, for others to read your blog and to compare their ideas to yours.
Also, it's time to make a final decision about what your topic will be for this project. So, if you haven't made up your mind, please do so and be definitive about it in this blog. If you've already made the decision, I should be able to find that in your previous blogs. Just check to be sure that you have "declared" your topic somewhere.
There two things to take care of then, for your blog: 1) paragraph or two about how to judge the credibility and value of internet sites and 2) make sure you've committed to a topic.
This assignment is due at 12 noon on December 7, EST.
Blog away!!
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