Evaluation
For investigation:
At the beginning of the project we sat with our class and Ms. Wilson and discussed about wikiality (modern internet) and internet many years ago. I answered all of the questions including what is a wiki, information about who creates and edits them and why do people use it. I explained what are our task and the importance of learning this Wikipedia project for us as a student and as an individual in developing society. Then, after answering all of these questions we had to post this on our blogs. Then the next following questions we had to answer in groups but I didn’t have a chance to do that. I investigated how Wikipedia gets its information, the role of people that are in the charge of all the information on wiki. Also, I explained how or what would be the process of solving the problem, if the will be a debate about including information in an article. As a student I wrote what I think about Wikipedia and how the information in it is reliable. After answering the questions I listed all the methods of finding inaccuracies on Wikipedia and how to know whether an article contains inaccurate information.
I think Wikipedia.com is the biggest source of information and knowledge from people all around the world. In my opinion it is useful to use Wikipedia.com to get information because it gives our society more opportunity to see things from many points of views of different people. Wikis are the modern version of many history books or encyclopaedias, because these books were written by the many historians, exports, writers, philosophers and etc. Our work that we included and our corrections are very affective. May be we helped some people to know and read not the wrong information, but what is real and true.
Next time I will try to include more information and show a work with an evidence of using many resources to investigate this topic. I have learnt so many things that I didn’t know before doing this project. I didn’t know every single question on Criterion A. But I researched about it and answered them which means that there were so many things that I have learnt.
Test:
· Choose a topic that you really know well
· Choose a short article (because it will easier to find a mistake or add some more
Information comparing with the other sites)
· Read it very careful and see if there is a mistake
· Find sites that have a same article and compare to Wikipedia to see if there is any mistakes.
This is my test and it helped me to actually find a mistake on Wikipedia. I followed every step of it and it worked well.
Design specifications:
Here are my design specifications:
1. Choose a topic or article on Wikipedia.com that I know well.
2. Include at least 2 sources that have corrected and right information in it.
3. Follow Ms. Wilson’s instructions to show and correct a mistake.
I think I followed my design specifications very careful. I choose a topic or an article on Wikipedia that I know very well, which is my favorite singer George Nozuka. I included two sources that have corrected information in it. I followed Ms. Wilson’s Instructions to show and correct a mistake.
Next time I would include more detailed design specifications for my work.
For design:
I found and copied the Wikipedia section that I was planning to change or correct. I showed my corrections on my blog using the method that Ms. Wilson showed us. After that to make sure that my article contains some mistake, I researched and find accurate sources for the information that I would liked to correct. I found two sites and cited them in MLA format. I made a list of three design specifications for my final Wikipedia correction, which you can see above.
Next time if I had a chance to do the design again I would include more sources that has accurate information, which would be a prove of Wikipedia’s mistake.
For create:
First of all I read and sign the responsibility agreement which reminded the students the responsibility of the teacher and school. I logged in using the isutechnlogy username and “password” password. I clicked the part which is saying edit and found my section where I am going to edit or correct. First of all it was kind of hard to figure out on the page which is the actual part of article and which part was the URL source. I found a part that I was looking and corrected it and included the citation. After that, I explained what have I changed in this page to Wikipedia. I wrote there that I changed the information of a singer’s first album release. The last step is to save the page and see how the new corrected version looks. I think I did a very simple and right job.
Next time I would choose a hard topic and try to find a big inaccuracy spending more time on my work.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Create D
First of all I read and sign the responsibility agreement which reminded the students the responsibility of the teacher and school. I logged in using the isutechnlogy username and “password” password. I clicked the part which is saying edit and found my section where I am going to edit or correct. First of all it was kind of hard to figure out on the page which is the actual part of article and which part was the URL source. I found a part that I was looking and corrected it and included the citation. After that, I explained what have I changed in this page to Wikipedia. I wrote there that I changed the information of a singer’s first album release. The last step is to save the page and see how the new corrected version looks.
First of all I read and sign the responsibility agreement which reminded the students the responsibility of the teacher and school. I logged in using the isutechnlogy username and “password” password. I clicked the part which is saying edit and found my section where I am going to edit or correct. First of all it was kind of hard to figure out on the page which is the actual part of article and which part was the URL source. I found a part that I was looking and corrected it and included the citation. After that, I explained what have I changed in this page to Wikipedia. I wrote there that I changed the information of a singer’s first album release. The last step is to save the page and see how the new corrected version looks.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Design (B)
Here is the Wikipedia section that I plan to correct:
George Nozuka sings dances, plays piano, guitar and harmonica. He released his first album Believe in (2007). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nozuka)
Here is the correction:
He released his first album believe in 2006.
Here is the citation of sites with the right information which is reliable or accurate.
"George Nozuka - Biography." LetsSingIt. 11/11/2006. LetsSingIt. 7 May 2009.
URL: http://artists.letssingit.com/george-nozuka-vxnlh/biography
"WHO IS GEORGE?” George Exclusive. 2006. HC Entertainment Group. 7 May 2009.
URL: http://georgeexclusive.com/low.php
Design specifications:
1. Choose a topic or article on Wikipedia.com that I know well.
2. Include at least 2 sources that have corrected and right information in it.
3. Follow Ms. Wilson’s instructions to show and correct a mistake.
Here is the Wikipedia section that I plan to correct:
George Nozuka sings dances, plays piano, guitar and harmonica. He released his first album Believe in (2007). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nozuka)
Here is the correction:
He released his first album believe in 2006.
Here is the citation of sites with the right information which is reliable or accurate.
"George Nozuka - Biography." LetsSingIt. 11/11/2006. LetsSingIt. 7 May 2009
URL: http://artists.letssingit.com/george-nozuka-vxnlh/biography
"WHO IS GEORGE?” George Exclusive. 2006. HC Entertainment Group. 7 May 2009
URL: http://georgeexclusive.com/low.php
Design specifications:
1. Choose a topic or article on Wikipedia.com that I know well.
2. Include at least 2 sources that have corrected and right information in it.
3. Follow Ms. Wilson’s instructions to show and correct a mistake.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Wikiality
WikialityJ
Our new project is to investigate and research about wiki and its importance in nowadays. Internet at the very beginning was only for:1) Checking mails2) Read3) Check some sitesPeople created something new and big, a website which can be changed by people all around the world which are called wiki- collaborate (for example wikipedia.com, wikianswers.com). A wiki is a set of web pages where every page can be edited by whoever is visiting and reading that website and wants to change or add some information. This all means that basically anyone can create a wiki page and visitors can edit or add what they think they need to. After that, another person gets into that page and edits it in his/her way and so on.
Our task is to find inaccuracies on Wikipedia, even though someone might change it back or may be not. That means there is no point of finding inaccuracies, the whole point is to understand and learn about what Wikipedia is. In my opinion it is important for me to learn about wiki because it is huge now in our society. I think a wiki pages are the source of communication and chance of expressing ourselves as well as podcasts. Using the wikipedia.com for doing school assignments is very inaccurate because people can put wrong information in it. That is why it is important for me as a student to learn more about these sites. As a learning person I think it is important to be a part of the developing society.
Anyone in the whole world who wants to share their knowledge or opinion is in charge of deciding what goes into an article and what gets removed from the article. Wikipedia gets its information from those people. If there is some debate about whether a particular bit of information should or should not be included in an article the process of deciding this problem might not end. Or some people might just delete that page and start a new article over again. I think Wikipedia.com is reliable because this site will become the biggest source of information and knowledge from people all around the world. In my opinion it is useful to use Wikipedia.com to get information because it gives me more opportunity to see things from many points of views of different people. Wikis are the modern version of many history books or encyclopaedias, because these books were written by the many historians, exports, writers, philosophers and etc. If there is a mistake or inaccuracies I would research more about that on different sites, book, magazines, ask people and etc, to make sure that particular article is very accurate.
A method of finding inaccuracies on Wikipedia:
· Choose a topic that you really know well
· Choose a short article (because it will easier to find a mistake or add some more
Information comparing with the other sites)
· Read it very careful and see of there a mistake
· Find sites that have a same article and compare to Wikipedia to see if there is any mistakes.
Resources used:
http://www.oreillynet..com/pub/a/network/2006/07/07/what-is-a-wiki.html
Inaccuracy on Wikipedia.com
Article: George Nozuka
George Nozuka sings dances, plays piano, guitar and harmonica. He released his first album Believe in 2007. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nozuka)
Corrected inaccuracy:
George Nozuka sings dances, plays piano, guitar and harmonica. He released his first album Believe in 2006.
URL’s of correction:
http://artists.letssingit.com/george-nozuka-vxnlh/biography
http://artists.letssingit.com/george-nozuka-album-believe-669kc8
Our new project is to investigate and research about wiki and its importance in nowadays. Internet at the very beginning was only for:1) Checking mails2) Read3) Check some sitesPeople created something new and big, a website which can be changed by people all around the world which are called wiki- collaborate (for example wikipedia.com, wikianswers.com). A wiki is a set of web pages where every page can be edited by whoever is visiting and reading that website and wants to change or add some information. This all means that basically anyone can create a wiki page and visitors can edit or add what they think they need to. After that, another person gets into that page and edits it in his/her way and so on.
Our task is to find inaccuracies on Wikipedia, even though someone might change it back or may be not. That means there is no point of finding inaccuracies, the whole point is to understand and learn about what Wikipedia is. In my opinion it is important for me to learn about wiki because it is huge now in our society. I think a wiki pages are the source of communication and chance of expressing ourselves as well as podcasts. Using the wikipedia.com for doing school assignments is very inaccurate because people can put wrong information in it. That is why it is important for me as a student to learn more about these sites. As a learning person I think it is important to be a part of the developing society.
Anyone in the whole world who wants to share their knowledge or opinion is in charge of deciding what goes into an article and what gets removed from the article. Wikipedia gets its information from those people. If there is some debate about whether a particular bit of information should or should not be included in an article the process of deciding this problem might not end. Or some people might just delete that page and start a new article over again. I think Wikipedia.com is reliable because this site will become the biggest source of information and knowledge from people all around the world. In my opinion it is useful to use Wikipedia.com to get information because it gives me more opportunity to see things from many points of views of different people. Wikis are the modern version of many history books or encyclopaedias, because these books were written by the many historians, exports, writers, philosophers and etc. If there is a mistake or inaccuracies I would research more about that on different sites, book, magazines, ask people and etc, to make sure that particular article is very accurate.
A method of finding inaccuracies on Wikipedia:
· Choose a topic that you really know well
· Choose a short article (because it will easier to find a mistake or add some more
Information comparing with the other sites)
· Read it very careful and see of there a mistake
· Find sites that have a same article and compare to Wikipedia to see if there is any mistakes.
Resources used:
http://www.oreillynet..com/pub/a/network/2006/07/07/what-is-a-wiki.html
Inaccuracy on Wikipedia.com
Article: George Nozuka
George Nozuka sings dances, plays piano, guitar and harmonica. He released his first album Believe in 2007. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nozuka)
Corrected inaccuracy:
George Nozuka sings dances, plays piano, guitar and harmonica. He released his first album Believe in 2006.
URL’s of correction:
http://artists.letssingit.com/george-nozuka-vxnlh/biography
http://artists.letssingit.com/george-nozuka-album-believe-669kc8
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