Marisch's Blog - Week of Sept 27

1) The only reading we had to do today (September 28) was on the http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus website. I learned that anyone can have a website and post false information for the public to read and maybe believe. That is a negative impact for the internet world because people may be lead to use this false information for research, projects, blogging, etc. I do not understand why people would take the time to make websites with incorrect information, racism, discrimination, etc. An example of a website like this is www.martinlutherking.org. Prior to the knowledge that was brought from the information I learned this week, I learned that anyone can own a .org website and post their own opinions with an anonymous author or owner on the site. 

2) The information I learned this week is applicable to my other class assignments because if I ever decide to do research for my other classes, I know that not all information on the world wide web is valid and legitimate. That is when I can use the big six skills that are as follows: Task definition, Information- seeking strategies, Information & Access, Use of Information, Evaluation, and Synthesis-Putting it all together! I can use these big six skills when I do research for school or if I use a search engine to look something up and I can now evaluate whether a website is legitimate. 

3) Of the material presented today, I already knew that there can be other links on a website that lead you to further information on a particular subject or words. Usually when I do research for school, I use a search engine to research a particular subject and the websites I click on have other links on them, usually for words that are difficult or have further meaning. These links actually help because it gives you a deeper content of the subject and can help you further understand the content.