The Common Loon
This weblog about facilitating lifelong learning in a digital age is maintained by Shanta Rohse. I created it to support a graduate independent study course I am taking at Athabasca University's Centre for Distance Education in Winter 2005. You can find out more about me from my personal web site.
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Tag It!
~ an application of the Tag It! pattern: recently tagged websites via del.icio.us ~
Extract It!
~ an application of the Extract It! pattern: a
real time boolean search via PubSub ~
Why the loon?
It's from an old reading blanket that's incubated many a lifelong learning project.
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Check for quality*
You want to distinguish a good online resource from a bad one.
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Incomplete, misleading or poorly conceptualized websites may be indistinguishable from high quality, well-researched authoritative sites. Sometimes this misdirection is intentional.
The ability to judge resources builds progressively. The more you know about the domain of your inquiry, the better informed you are of the criteria that constitute a quality resource in that domain.
You cannot judge the quality of a site when you have not progressed beyond the rudiments of the subject.
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Therefore, use checklists designed by experiences searchers or subject matter experts until you acquire basic knowledge of the domain.
Checklists support your growing level of expertise.
You are placing your trust in someone else’s judgment.
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Nicole Auer (2004) maintains a bibliography of checklists for evaluating websites.
Note: See also Trust a Secondary Source
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