Welcome to your classroom blog. This is the first of many assignments you will be doing on the blog. Throughout this course, we will do research. It is important that you are able to identify what is a valid (good) source material. As you know, you can find just about anything using the Internet. This is a good thing. The more we know the better informed we will be. The downside to the Internet is there are billions of sites to wade through and not all of the sites will help you with your research project. Today, you will be deciding if the following websites would be useful for a research project. Click on the hyperlink for each site, if the link does not work just copy and paste the URL (address) in the address bar. Here is a list of the following websites that you will be researching:
http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/
http://improbable.com/
http://www.froggyville.com/graphics.htm
http://www.dhmo.org/
http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Stick_Insects/
http://www.moma.org/
http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/
Once you have been directed to the link, you will need to answer the follow questions:
1. Is the author's name provided?
2. Is there a contact person or an address provided?
3. Is there biographical information provided about the author?
4. Does the author seem knowledgeable? Is he or she an expert in the field?
5. What kinds of results do you see when you do a search on the author's name?
6. Does the site have more resources and links?
7. Is the site a credible research source? and explain why or why not.
You will want to write your responses in Word first so you can spell check your answers. Once you have researched all of the websites and word processed your answers, you will need to copy and paste your answers into the post section—this can be found under the post you are currently reading. Here is the link to The Wayback Machine if you would like to use for this assignment: http://www.archive.org/ REMEMBER: All posts must be in complete sentences and please do not use texting language.
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Randy & Erin Holcomb & Kelby McLain
ReplyDelete1. Is the author's name provided?
Website 3: Yes
Website 4: No
Website 5: Yes
Website 6: Yes
2. Is there a contact person or an address provided?
Website 3: Yes
Website 4: No
Website 5: No
Website 6: Yes
3. Is there biographical information provided about the author?
Website 3: Yes
Website 4: No
Website 5: Yes
Website 6: No
4. Does the author seem knowledgeable? Is he or she an expert in the field?
Website 3: Yes
Website 4: No
Website 5: Yes
Website 6: Yes
5. What kinds of results do you see when you do a search on the author's name?
Website 3: All the things he has done with his life
Website 4: No Author
Website 5: He is a Doctor and a teacher
Website 6: Biography and actor
6. Does the site have more resources and links?
Website 3: Yes
Website 4: Yes
Website 5: No
Website 6: Yes
7. Is the site a credible research source? and explain why or why not.
Website 3: No, because there is nothing important it is funny news that you don’t need.
Website 4: No, because it is lots of pictures of frogs and nothing about them.
Website 5: Yes, because you can read about everything he has done in his life.
Website 6: Yes if you are studying about the museum
Website 1: Broken
Website 2: Did in class
Blake, CJ
ReplyDelete8/30/11
English 9
Website 1 Link broken.
Website 2 Did in class.
Website 3
1. Yes
2. No
3. Yes
4. Yes, They are an expert in the field.
5. A biographical document.
6. Yes
7. No, because of too much opinion.
Website 4
1. No
2. No
3. No
4. No, They are not expert in the field.
5. None
6. Yes
7. No, It doesn’t have good information.
Website 5
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No
4. Yes, They are an expert in the field.
5. Yes, biographical information.
6. Yes
7. Yes, It has lots of information about the topic.
Website 6
1. No
2. No
3. No
4. Yes they are not expert in the field.
5. No information
6. Yes
7. Yes, He has no clue what he is talking about in the topics.
Website 7
1. No
2. Yes
3. No
4. Yes, They are an expert in the field.
5. None
6. Yes
7. Yes, he knows what he is talking about.
Website 8
1. No
2. Yes
3. None
4. Yes, He is very knowledgeable in the field.
5. No results
6. Yes
7. Yes, It has excellent information on the topic.
1. Is the author's name provided?
ReplyDelete2. Is there a contact person or an address provided?
3. Is there biographical information provided about the author?
4. Does the author seem knowledgeable? Is he or she an expert in the field?
5. What kinds of results do you see when you do a search on the author's name?
6. Does the site have more resources and links?
7. Is the site a credible research source? and explain why or why not
Marley Tolliver
ReplyDelete8/30/11
Website 1--link is broken.
Website 2--did as a class.
Website 3—
1. Yes.
2. Yes
3. No
4. Yes
5. Wikipedia, Biography, and Website(Improbable Research)
6. No
7. Yes, it’s a credible research source because it has a lot of facts.
Website 4:
1. No
2. No
3. No
4. Yes
5. No results, no author.
6. No
7. No, it doesn’t have an author, or results.
Website 5:
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No
4. Yes
5. Website and Wikipedia
6. Yes
7. Yes, it has a lot of links.
Website 6:
1. No
2. No
3. No
4. Yes
5. No results
6. No
7. It’s not credible at all.
Website 7:
1. No
2. Yes
3. No
4. Yes
5. No results, no name
6. Yes
7. Yes, it has a lot of information on where to find them, phone number, and address.
Website 8:
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No
4. Yes
5. Biography and Website
6. Yes
7. Yes, he seems to know what he’s talking about.
Ryan Holcombe
ReplyDeleteBranden chism
Website 1-- link is broken.
Website 2-- did as a class.
Website 3—
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. He has a noble peace prize and seems very knowledgeable.
6. Yes
7. It is a credible site sight because it is well maintained and the author is very knowledgeable.
Website 4
1. No
2. No
3. No
4. No author
5. No author
6. Yes
7. No sight has games and jokes
Website 5
1. Yes
2. No
3. No
4. Yes
5. He has a phd
6. Yes
7. Yes, it has a lot of good information
Website 6
1. No
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. No author
6. Yes
7. No hasn’t been updated in a long time
Website 7
1. No
2. Yes
3. No
4. There is no author
5. No author
6. Yes
7. It seems like a good sight for art
Website 8
1. Yes
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. Is a multi media artist
6. No
7. possibly for art
1. Is the author's name provided?
2. Is there a contact person or an address provided?
3. Is there biographical information provided about the author?
4. Does the author seem knowledgeable? Is he or she an expert in the field?
5. What kinds of results do you see when you do a search on the author's name?
6. Does the site have more resources and links?
7. Is the site a credible research source? and explain why or why not.
Jerrod Carlson
ReplyDeleteWeb site 1
1. Is the author's name provided? Yes
2. Is there a contact person or an address provided? Yes
3. Is there biographical information provided about the author? No
4. Does the author seem knowledgeable? Is he or she an expert in the field? No
5. What kinds of results do you see when you do a search on the author's name? Yes
6. Does the site have more resources and links? No
7. Is the site a credible research source? And explain why or why not. Yes. Cause there is a lot of different sites that talk about different things.
Web site 2
1. No
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. Nothing
6. No
7. No. they don’t talk about anything pretty much.
Web site 3
1. Yes
2. No
3. No
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. Yes. It talks about a disease and what it sort of does.
Web site 4
1. No
2. No
3. No
4. No
5. Nothing
6. No
7. Yes. The site talks about the Stick insect its food, habitat, and what it does.
Web site 5
1. No
2. Yes
3. No
4. No
5. No
6. No
7. Yes. There are a lot of sites about the site.
Web site 6
1. Yes
2. No
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. Yes. Because it talks about how people made robots and what they did and what year were made in.
Brian Hughes English 9
ReplyDeleteWebsite 3
1. Is the author's name provided?
Yes
2. Is there a contact person or an address provided?
Yes
3. Is there biographical information provided about the author?
Yes
4. Does the author seem knowledgeable? Is he or she an expert in the field?
Yes, he looks like an expert.
5. What kinds of results do you see when you do a search on the author's name?
He is the co founder of the website.
6. Does the site have more resources and links?
Yes
7. Is the site a credible research source? And explain why or why not.
Yes the site is credible source because the information is provided and has links.
Website 4
1. Is the author's name provided?
No
2. Is there a contact person or an address provided?
No
3. Is there biographical information provided about the author?
No
4. Does the author seem knowledgeable? Is he or she an expert in the field?
No
5. What kinds of results do you see when you do a search on the author's name?
Nothing
6. Does the site have more resources and links?
Yes
7. Is the site a credible research source? And explain why or why not.
No because it is a website for entertainment.
Website 5
1. Is the author's name provided?
No
2. Is there a contact person or an address provided?
Yes
3. Is there biographical information provided about the author?
No
4. Does the author seem knowledgeable? Is he or she an expert in the field?
Yes they have use knowledgeable resources.
5. What kinds of results do you see when you do a search on the author's name?
Nothing
6. Does the site have more resources and links?
Yes
7. Is the site a credible research source? And explain why or why not
Yes it seams like a good source but it may be fake because it doesn’t have an author.
Website 6
1. Is the author's name provided?
No
2. Is there a contact person or an address provided?
No
3. Is there biographical information provided about the author?
No
4. Does the author seem knowledgeable? Is he or she an expert in the field?
Yes but he may not be an expert.
5. What kinds of results do you see when you do a search on the author's name?
nothing
6. Does the site have more resources and links?
Yes
7. Is the site a credible research source? And explain why or why not.
No the site looks like a hoax.
Website 7
1. Is the author's name provided?
No
2. Is there a contact person or an address provided?
Yes
3. Is there biographical information provided about the author?
No
4. Does the author seem knowledgeable? Is he or she an expert in the field?
Yes he seams an expert.
5. What kinds of results do you see when you do a search on the author's name?
Nothing
6. Does the site have more resources and links?
Yes
7. Is the site a credible research source? And explain why or why not.
No the website is an advertisement
Website 8
1. Is the author's name provided?
Yes
2. Is there a contact person or an address provided?
Yes
3. Is there biographical information provided about the author?
No
4. Does the author seem knowledgeable? Is he or she an expert in the field?
No
5. What kinds of results do you see when you do a search on the author's name?
He is an artist at large.
6. Does the site have more resources and links?
Yes
7. Is the site a credible research source? And explain why or why not.
No it is a fake about old robots