continuing a bit late, week five reflection

I've let the information from week five stew, and sink in...this was an interesting class based mostly on an activity, and practice that I already performed: Vetting your resources. the material covered in this class was about making sure that your internet resources were as reliable as most people consider text based resources to be. the internet is a great places to start any research, as long as the material is viable. to quote one of my favorite video bloggers on Earth: "with the advent of the internet, information has been liberated" this quote, to me, means that where once, one would have to go to a library, search through the 2 ton catalog of books, the go find their desired book among every other book in that same category. while this system worked for a couple hundred years, since Ben Franklin decided to make the first public libraries in America, you no longer need to do that. this sounds powerful, but like all things powerful, one has to be careful or it will backfire, we need to not only be teaching students the old methods, involving that two ton catalog, but also, how to appropriately use Google, or similar search engines. many teachers have a small list of pre-approved websites that their students can use, which sadly doesn't teach students how to do research, though it's a safe method for getting the information to their students. I seem to be drawling...alot...so i'm going to end the post here for now, and pick up next post, with: continuing late: Week six: week five:part 2