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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.

We enjoyed your presentations and reading your group projects.  Your grades have been added to Blackboard and should be up on WIN.

If your group lost any points on the Notebook, you will see comments from us explaining why.  Some individuals also lost extra points for not making changes we recommended earlier.

Thanks everyone for a great semester.  We really enjoyed having you in our class.  If you have any questions please let us know!  We’d also be happy to help you with research projects in the future, so be sure to get in touch with us if you have any questions on future projects.

Have a great holiday!

Hi everyone,

We have updated grades for everyone in the gradebook, so you should have grades for everything you’ve done up through now.  The total number of points that have been assigned so far are out of 55 (not counting extra credit).  Remember, the total number of points for the semester is out of 100, so if you are at 50 points, you know that your highest possible grade at this point is 95.

Be sure to make the corrections we recommended to your work before contributing it to your group notebook!  If you have any questions at all, please be sure to ask.  Kaeley and my contact information is in the sidebar to the right.

If you want to meet with us as a group or individually before your presentation or before your notebook is due, please let us know.  We’re here to help and want everyone to do as well as you possibly can.

Don’t forget… the Wikipedia extra credit is due on Monday during class.

Thanks!

Here are the correct answers for the last two quizzes:

Quiz 9:

• Results higher up in a Google search are linked to by more websites.
• All of the above (or ownership, authority, accuracy of content, purpose, and objectivity) should be criteria used to evaluate websites for use in research.
• Anyone can post information online, where traditional media is filtered by editors or purchasers.

Quiz 10:

• Web 2.0 is different from the earlier web because it is much easier for everyone to publish information online. This can be useful for very specific types of research such as information that is social (what is appropriate to wear when traveling, etc.) or extremely current (what are the user reviews of the new gaming system that just released last night).
• RSS is a technology that pushes new information to you. If you know you want to keep up with a specific website you can subscribe to it and get news delivered to you. This is particularly useful if you follow many sites because it will save you a lot of time.

For this extra credit assignment, find a page in Wikipedia to edit.  You’ll need to add at least one sentence to get the extra credit points.  If you do this, you’ll get one extra credit point on your final grade.  If you make an addition that needs citation, and add the citation to the appropriate place on the page, you’ll get a total of two extra credit points on your final grade.

To get the extra credit points, print off the page before you make the edit and afterwards, and highlight or circle the area you’ve changed.  Bring them to class on Monday.

If you have questions about how to make edits to Wikipedia, please see Kaeley or Lauren.

As requested, here are the links to the sites we discussed today in class.

• RSS (defined), Google RSS Reader- good for having content pushed to you
• Creative Commons- good for finding media to use in your presentations
• Flickr- good for finding photos to use in your presentations
• Archive.org- good for viewing websites as they looked in the past
• Del.icio.us bookmarks- good for tracking current sites on various topics
• Zotero- a Firefox extension designed to make research and bibliographies easier

Let us know if you have any questions!

Please read Becoming Net Savvy and comment below.  This is due November 28.