I was very surprised when I did the mapping activity. I chose the allaboutexplorers.com site and at first glance thought it was a valid site. It was when I started digging deeper that I found that it wasn’t quite as good as I thought. Mostly based on the link search in google. I have used the internet many times for research in the past. Knowing what I know now, I might rethink some of the sites I use for any project. I will also do a thorough search of the history of any site I use from here now on.
I began using the internet when I went to college. Until this class I did not know ways to research websites I used. Although I didn’t have any problems, I could have used incorrect information to write my papers. The implications of that for students of today are they will start to believe that everything on the internet is correct. They might think that all sites are valid references.
During this weeks activities I signed up for Delicious. This site is a great way to keep and organize my bookmarks. At home and at work I keep a lot of bookmarks that I need constantly. However, I use two different operating systems. At work we are windows based and at home I use a mac. My mac bookmarks go to all of my iOS devices but my windows bookmarks are stuck at work. I’ve found times when I need something from work and I couldn’t do anything because I couldn’t remember the website. Now with a site like Delicious I can keep both sets of bookmarks in one place and have access to them on any computer. The site is also useful if I need to borrow someone else’s computer to look up a bookmark.
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