Wikipedia1
The World of Wikipedia starts off by giving an outline of how the website started. It gives examples of the first conversations on the page. The mane idea of the first half is how the Creator, Jimbo Wales wanted to make an easy access encyclopedia. This book gives examples of previous paper encyclopedias. What the reader is supposed to take away from this book is how information is controlled.
When Wales created the website Wikipedia, he wanted people to be able to access information from wherever they are. Some of the chapters in the book tell of a site called conserveapedia where information is shared, but controlled. What is sup prizing about this chapter is how kids are home schooled from the internet. The problem with this, is using pages like this to teach is uncertain. Pages like wiki, medi, or conservapedia are monitored, but they are still made by users. If people are us9ing them as a primary teaching source, they are taking the risk that what they are learning or teaching is not true.
The ideas in this book are what members of the groups learned when doing the project last week. A person can pick a topic and search but there is always the chance that what is posted on the page is inaccurate, or just not true. it
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
group Presentation
Group Presentation
Today our group did our presentation. My group was me, Stephanie and Janet. Our topic was Assisted Suicide. We gave the description of Pad, Physician assisted Death and euthanasia. The difference is Pad, the doctor will give the injection, while the other, the patient will give themselves the lethal dose of medication. We found that this medical practice is aloud in states like , Montana and Washington. There were a number of Wikipedia sources on this topic.
There fifteen sources we found on Assisted Suicide. We opened all of them to follow the links in side. A few of these were primary sources, but most were secondary sources. The interesting thing about sources 2 and 15 were that they were dead sources. This is because neither had anything to do with the topic were investigating.
For the source found in the article euthanasia, only number1 is a primary source. The second threw fith sources were not very useful. One of these was a blog and tow others were election results. Another source was a journal article. Number5 had nothing to do with our topic at all. The rest of the sources, numbers 8-13 could not be found.
Our group found that the information was being presented in a balanced format , our team checked each source to establish whether it was in support or against PAD and euthanasia. What our group found is that the sources are balanced, half for and half against. We also found that Wikipedia is not enough information. The articles are good to explain what assisted suicide is, and the difference between PAD and euthanasia. The sources and links do not give enough information to write a paper or help some one who knows A person who wants to choose one of these options. What the members of the team found surprising was we had to do a great deal of information to find information on the Terry Schivo Case. Since it was fairly recent, one would think the Wikipedia page would have at least one mention to it, or a page with a link to some kind of information. The most important think team members should take from this project is that Wikipedia is not a place to solely base facts and information on. Our team believes that it is useful when introducing yourself or others to a topic, but only basic facts that can be easily chest should be taken seriously from the webpage.
Today our group did our presentation. My group was me, Stephanie and Janet. Our topic was Assisted Suicide. We gave the description of Pad, Physician assisted Death and euthanasia. The difference is Pad, the doctor will give the injection, while the other, the patient will give themselves the lethal dose of medication. We found that this medical practice is aloud in states like , Montana and Washington. There were a number of Wikipedia sources on this topic.
There fifteen sources we found on Assisted Suicide. We opened all of them to follow the links in side. A few of these were primary sources, but most were secondary sources. The interesting thing about sources 2 and 15 were that they were dead sources. This is because neither had anything to do with the topic were investigating.
For the source found in the article euthanasia, only number1 is a primary source. The second threw fith sources were not very useful. One of these was a blog and tow others were election results. Another source was a journal article. Number5 had nothing to do with our topic at all. The rest of the sources, numbers 8-13 could not be found.
Our group found that the information was being presented in a balanced format , our team checked each source to establish whether it was in support or against PAD and euthanasia. What our group found is that the sources are balanced, half for and half against. We also found that Wikipedia is not enough information. The articles are good to explain what assisted suicide is, and the difference between PAD and euthanasia. The sources and links do not give enough information to write a paper or help some one who knows A person who wants to choose one of these options. What the members of the team found surprising was we had to do a great deal of information to find information on the Terry Schivo Case. Since it was fairly recent, one would think the Wikipedia page would have at least one mention to it, or a page with a link to some kind of information. The most important think team members should take from this project is that Wikipedia is not a place to solely base facts and information on. Our team believes that it is useful when introducing yourself or others to a topic, but only basic facts that can be easily chest should be taken seriously from the webpage.
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