Hey everyone,
So week 4 has come to an end. This week I got to learn about the importance
of bookmarking on the cloud. I have plenty
of book marks on my browser, and they are all separated into a corresponding folder. However, by learning about DIIGO, and that I could
save those bookmarks in a separate place was really interesting. Tagging is a concept that I had a brief idea
about, yet there was so much more for me to learn. Tags are key words that are found online, in
articles, blog posts, and many more platforms.
When a person is looking for information and conducts a search all of
the results will contain those words. Tags are also a great way to help find
more information that is related to a specific topic.
It is the responsibility of the user to know which
information is reliable and which is completely made up by someone. When it comes to knowing which sources are
reliable it takes time to sift through all of the information in front of
you. I can say from experience, I have
done a few research papers where I used Google to help me gather information. Google will give you millions of possible
resources for the topic you are searching for.
Though, there may be some useful information it will take time to go
through each link trying to figure out what is relevant to the topic.
After completing the Internet Detective tutorial I learned
that doing research is a skill that I need to fine tune for the rest of my
educational career. I knew the basics
that there are certain things that anyone can post anything they want online
and someone if someone doesn’t know better they could believe it to be
true. What I didn’t know was that the
URL of the website will give away the user information on whether it is a
reliable source or not. I had no idea
that a web address composed of so many little parts. The chart under the title What can a URL tell us? on the internet
detective tutorial was really informative in breaking down a URL. (http://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/detective/urlclues.html)
As the weeks progress I am learning so much more on being an
active digital citizen. I had no idea
that there were soo many different resources for people to collaborate and
categorize information. I am looking
forward to continuing my journey on gaining digital literacy as the weeks
progress.
Have a great day!
Aarti
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