I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours

These days, it's rare to have someone hand you an actual photo of, say, their new grandson. More than likely they are showing you the dozens, if not hundreds, of digital photos on their cameras. Or iPods. Or cell phones. With the internet you can see even more photos of the little darling's every move with photo sharing.

Don't Believe Everything You Read on the Internet!

Welcome back! Help yourself to a piece of chocolate and roll up your sleeves - today we're going to check out some sites on the Internet and learn how to determine if what they're selling is anything we're interested in buying!
You will get a handout with some helpful indicators to look for when doing Internet research. You may not need to check all of these items all of the time, but once you begin to look for certain things, you'll begin to do it naturally.

Ready? Let's check out some of these web sites:
 RYT Hospital

 Garden help and information

CNN

NeuroGenesis

Women & AIDS


Other aspects of the web page to consider:

Objectivity

• Is the bias explicit or hidden?
• Does the identity of the author or sponsor suggest a bias?
• How does the bias impact the usefulness of the information?

Clarity

• Is the information clearly presented?
• Is the text neat, legible and formatted for easy reading?
• If there are graphics, do they add to the content or distract?
• If there are advertisements, do they interfere with your ability to use the page?
• Are the pages well organized?
• Are there mistakes in spelling or word usage?

Accessibility

• Does the site load quickly?
• Can you move around the site easily?
• Is there a text-only alternative for the visually-impaired?

For international and new domain names and extensions, go to:
Country extensions - http://www.norid.no/domenenavnbaser/domreg.html?sort=name
New domain names - http://www.internic.net/faqs/new-tlds.html

Adapted from Lesley University - Evaluating Web Sites

The survey says...

Glad to see you back again! We're going to take a look at some organizing techniques today and explore some of the places that you wrote that you are interested in. Like Facebook. Here is a previous post that has a couple of links for us - previous post. (I love citing myself!)

I think I sent all of you the link to this blog so that you can access it at home - but if I didn't, just let me know.

Welcome to the Fall Semester!

And welcome to Not Your Father's Internet! This class will provide you with an opportunity to explore the applications and functions of the internet in a guided -- and hopefully fun -- environment. For the first class, we'll just get to know each other, find out what you came for and begin our exploration.
The first place we'll explore is this blog - I will post links and updates periodically here. You can access it from your home computer, too. And you'll probably want to after you see this video - so you can show your friends. If you haven't seen it already!



I'm looking forward to a great semester!

Flowers in Black and White - straight from Picasa!

Pics to Play With!

Here are a few of my pictures that you can download and play with.
Click on the picture - it will open in a new window. Right click on the picture and choose "Save Image As" and it will take you to a location to save it. Choose a name for the file or leave it as is. Click Save.
Click on the Back button to return to the Blog site - and repeat for any other pictures you want to download!

 

Right Click

Using the right click button on the mouse gives you further options in whichever context you are working in. The example above shows the menu for when you click on a hyperlink. The top option, "Open Link in New Window" lets you open a link for another web page while staying on the current page. This is handy when you are exploring links in a list, like the one above, or links that are embedded in an article, like the example below.

The right click menu is available in most applications and functions. On a Mac, you can access the right click menu by holding down the CTRL button and clicking the mouse.