In History we looked at both the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus website and a Google a Day.The Google a Day really made you think outside the box and think carefully about what you were typing. It also made you choose your words wisely because one wrong word could throw you off.
http://www.agoogleaday.com/
A Google a Day was a pretty interesting website. I found searching for an answer to a question through Google surprisingly fun. It felt similar to a scavenger hunt and you had to find the answer somewhere deep in the internet. Frustrating is an understatement to this "game" though because the minute you see that "Sorry, wrong answer" more that 5 times that's when it starts to become a pain. I learned that it is much more important to choose your keywords wisely than to just put a bunch of words into the search bar to hope that you will get lucky.
Accuracy is the use of right information that connects to what the website was advertising. Authenticity is how accurately it displays what it supposed to do and does it well. The website does what it meant out to do. Reliability is about the writer of the website specifically in that the author must be a good source of information and is not a Historian writing about the science behind the Big Bang theory. The Tree Octopus website could not be used in school because even though it is authentic it is not reliable or accurate information (no such thing as a tree Octopus).
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
No comments:
Post a Comment