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Please watch the following: Wikiality and Wikilobbying.

These fun videos brings up several thought provoking points. Please comment. If you aren’t sure where to begin, reflect on one of the following questions:

• Does this impact your view of unrestricted online resources? How?
• What, if anything, in this video reinforces the importance of citations?
• Does the ease of updating Wikipedia compensate for the possible inaccuracies?

The following are the answers to the first two quizes:

Quiz 1

1. Date, source, geography and group of people are all ways of broadening or narrowing topic.

2. The length of your paper or project can impact your topic and how many sources you need in several ways.  Broader topics will need more space to discuss them, so they will work better with longer papers (15-20 pages).  A very specific topic will work better with a shorter paper (5-7 pages).  Similarly, a shorter paper will require fewer sources, while a longer paper will require more research.

Quiz 2

1. Anorexia OR Bulimia will give you more results than Anorexia AND Bulimia.  The OR requires that all results include EITHER of the terms, while the AND requires that all results include BOTH terms.

2. Folksonomies are classification systems created by users of the information rather than experts in the field.

3. Truncation is using the root of a word along with either a “?” or “*” to get as many variations of the word as possible in your search results.  This allows you to get plurals or different endings without doing multiple searches.

Today’s presentation:

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Take a look at this video and comment on some aspect of it. If you are not sure where to start, think about what statistic was most surprising or interesting, or what impact these changes might have on your future career or educational plans.

Here is the powerpoint presentation from today:

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We will be using this blog space as a location for you to respond to various articles and videos related to our course.