Friday, November 11, 2011

Evaluating Websites

1- While evaluating the first website, Google Gulp, I found that the website was flawed because there was no author, but it is a organiztion, and there is not a way to contact them. The second website, Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie, I think that the website is very accurate, and very well studied,  because it has contact information, and is by an organization.But  on the other hand I am not sure because it hasn't been updated since 2008.

3- The first site was 50 megs,  that I looked at was very persuading but it didn't have any contact numbers, and it didnt say when it was last updated. It also wasnt very structured well, it didn't say much to persuade someone to go, but enough that they would look more into it. The second site was Makonta, was the best site, because it had contact information, and it had very updated information, like the plaque that was being placed there today at 11 A.M., also it was very nice, it made me want to go there, and it was very organized. The last site was Wikipedia, it was all over teh place, wasn't organized, had no contact information, wasn't very inviting, and interesting.I didnt like that it didnt provide the information I was interested and needed.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Citation Builder Critique

I liked about Easybib, because it was that it was very easy to use. It had a search bar for the thing you were looking for and filled as much information as was shown, in the report/page. I also liked it because it made everything easy, it made it easy for me to look up any site, book, newspaper, or magazine, ect. and would make it easy for me to learn about that peice of work. On the other hand I think that CitationMachine was harder because it was more confusing than Easybib, and sourceaid. CitationMachine had more information needed to fill in. It also made it hard to understand considering that was the first time I used CitationMachine. I liked it because when you had finished putting in all the information, you learned a lot more than the other sites showed. Sourceaid was easy and hard. It was easy because it didn't need too much information, but it made it look like there was a lot when it organized it all. It was hard because you had to change the type of article, and then it changes the information needings.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Avatars

1) An Avatar is a graphic image that represents a person on the internet.

2) Someone might use a avatar in his/her personal life for fun, and entertainment. Someone might also use a avatar in their educational career for a project, or to show something, or to post to a blog for information instead of someone having to read all the information. Someone may also use a avatar for business for points in a presentation or if they lost their voice and needed something to take the place of it, they may also use it to make something more visible, like there points on graphics or on technology.

3) No, I have not used a avatar prior to this class.

4) Out of the three Web sites I liked GoAnimate the best, because it was fun to create and was also interesting compared to the others. You made dialog instead of only what you would say. I also liked the fun people that you could use to create the dialog.

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Monday, September 26, 2011

Feed Reader

Between Google Reader and Bloglines, my favorite Feed Reader Web site is Google Reader because I think it is more organized and easier to understand. Google Reader is easy to access things such as who you follow, your unread items, ect. Bloglines on the otherhand you much click and search for things you may want to see. Google Reader is also very understandable because they are simple tabs, such as your shared or all items, people you follow, and subcriptions. These are some reasons I prefer to use Google Reader over Bloglines.