Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Gadgets, Political Rants, Wikipedia, Oh My!


Today, in the September 5, 2012 edition of Mr. Schick’s Human Geography class, we certainly learned a bunch of handy information when researching for a paper and how to make our BLOG more exciting. The first thing that we learned today in class was how to add links to our BLOG pages. You do this by going to your dashboard, then click layout on the side, then you just add a gadget and voila. After showing us this process Mr. Schick then rambled on about his undying love for Wikipedia and how he sends it Valentine’s cards while jumping up and down very excitedly. Last but not least, Mr. Schick showed us how to determine whether or not a website is legit or not. While going through some examples, we found one that could have been deleted and tossed in the internet garbage similar to what one might do with a messed up drawing of which you wish to do again. You could tell that it was just some dude making up some rant or another by the fact that the site was not very visually appealing and that they had not capitalized the first letter of the first sentence of the first paragraph of the article. However, we were informed of one source with very reliable information, which is the CIA’s website “World Fact Book.”

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