For an assignment in our Instructional Design class, we were to the explore the information literacy resources section of the www.novemberlearning.com website. This section was very interesting to me as I did not know several of the items listed.
I took the quiz and scored enough points to be considered "moderately savvy". I guess I would rather be "moderately savvy" rather than "downright nerdy!!"
I did not know that you could find the publisher of a web site. I looked up several of the websites I look at on a daily basis. I noticed that some of the "news" websites were published by the same company so I guess there is a standard for "news related" companies.
I liked the fact that you could look up the history of a web site. Some of the websites that I looked up dated back to as far as 1989. I would not have thought that websites were that popular 20 years ago!
I feel it is very important for the public to know whether they are on a personal web page. The story of the professor at Northwestern was interesting. I am sure that some people who viewed this web page thought the professor's opinion was an opinion of Northwestern University rather than the professor. It is also very important to know the publisher of a website as with the Martin Luther King example that was given. This website does look legtimate, and I am sure students have gone to this website thinking they would find history details of Martin Luther King only to find that this website was racially motivated. If teachers are assigning a research topic, they should probably look up the publishers of websites in order to protect students, especially if students are doing research during school hours.
I am presently teaching a Microcomputer Applications class this semester, and I plan on incorporating some of these activities into my Internet browser chapter so students can be better informed regarding the Internet.
This activity was very informative to me as there were several questions that I did not know.
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