Hw assignment 3

Motoko Rich’s The Future of Reading: In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update follows a school librarian (a dying breed) as she updates her library and reaches out to students and teachers alike in hopes of keeping their interest in reading and enabling their ability to check the sources of information found on the internet.

“Soon Ms. Rosalia progressed to teaching students how to ask more sophisticated questions during research projects, how to decode Internet addresses and how to assess the authors and biases of a Web site’s content... ‘We are teaching them how to think. But sometimes the Board of Ed seems to want them to learn how to fill in little bubbles.’”

I think that this article is important because usually when checking the Internet for information, we tend to just look through “credible sources” without thinking about what criteria their credibility is being judged. If we are going to be posting information up we should not only be thinking of whether it is correct or not, but also see if it is biased or spun. The other thing gathered from this article is knowing that a librarian is a great updated resource we often forget about.

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Hw assignment 2

dot-com bubble burst- when a bunch of seemingly successful web-based businesses failed in Fall 2001

shakeout- term used to describe the unsuccessful and foolhardy businesses that are thrown to the wayside during industry fluctuations

Web 2.0- standards and approach used by post-crash thriving websites

Buzzword- a stylish or trendy word or phrase

mashup- a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool

platform- provides a structural representation of the document, enabling you to modify its content and visual presentation. Essentially, it connects web pages to scripts or programming languages.

Web Interaction design- aims to minimize the learning curve and to increase accuracy and efficiency of a task without diminishing usefulness; the objective is to reduce frustration and increase user productivity and satisfaction.

standards-based presentation-

Document Object Model- provides a structural representation of the document, enabling you to modify its content and visual presentation. Essentially, it connects web pages to scripts or programming languages.

algorithmic data- is a procedure used to solve a mathematical or computational problem or to address a data processing issue. In the latter sense, an algorithm is a set of step-by-step commands or instructions designed to reach a particular goal.

To get these definitions, I simply placed the terms in to the Google search engine followed by the word “definition” and sometimes (if needed) “web.” The only one I had problems with is standards-based presentation.