This week we learned about a few different websites that give you information on all other specific websites. Before this week’s assignment, I would go to google.com and type in whatever I was searching for. After typing something such as easy kid crafts, I would get a list of websites that I could choose from to visit. This list has a title and a brief description of how this website relates to my search. After visiting a website I could easily leave it and go back to my original google search page and visit another website if I want. I could do this over and over again until I find the website that gave me the best craft. I find this to be a relatively easy and quick way to find what I need.
The assignment was to go to certain websites such as altavista.com, easywhois.com, and archive.org and simply play around with them and see how they would be useful. Originally I thought that this assignment would help me find the information I wanted to find easier on the web, however, I found that these web sites were not really meant to assist in the search for information. What they are helpful for is to find out how reputable the site actually is. I don’t think that I will be using any of these sites on my daily searches at all. As a future teacher however, this assignment will be very important. It will help me ensure that when I send my students to the web for any kind of assignment, that I am sending them to a reputable website.
After doing this week’s assignment I have found that this assignment was not at all what I originally thought it was. This assignment was not to help me find information easier. This assignment is to help me as a future teacher to direct my students to the appropriate web sites. It’s important to know who owns the sites you visit because that tells you if the site is in fact to the place you are searching. I think archive.org was by far the most interesting one of all three. It shows the history of the web site, including how many people have logged on to the specific web site since as far back as 1996. This is a good tool to have when doing research on a certain topic for school. It really gives you a better idea of maybe an event that took place in the recent history, such as the stock market crash.
I like how most everyone has started their blog this week by talking about google searches. If you find a good thing, why mess it up??
ReplyDeleteI do like how you pointed out that this activity did not help make searching for specific things easier - which is what I originally expected as well.
I also like how even though this isn't something that the majority of us plan on incorporating currently (making it seem pointless) we all agree that we will be using it as we start teaching in order to keep ourselves in check by using what is reputable (and therefore making this lesson COMPLETELY worth it!).
-Lyndse H.
I think this information through mapping will really benefit students when doing assignments like writing an article about certain informaion. Mapping will really let the students in on all different types of information they never new about before. Instructors will be very satified with information that the students have learned on a certain topic if they incorporate mapping in with the assignment given to them.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree, I thought this assignment would be about making searching easier, also. I also hope to use archive.com. I think as a teacher of any subject or grade level should use this. It gives them the opportunity to gain the students' "trust". That and us as teachers will show the parents that we really care and want the best for our students!
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I think that you are right when yous stated that we must go to these sites to ensure ourselves we are not getting children into any trouble. However, I do think that these sites are helpful and that everyone should use them.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like everyone loves google, haha. I do agree that google is the fastest and easiest way to search on the internet and it is by far my favorite search engine! I also agree that these websites will be useful to pass on to your students as an educator even though they may not serve much purpose in helping search information on the internet faster.
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