Final Project

https://sites.google.com/site/classportfolioeduc2201/home

Webquest

https://sites.google.com/site/arewereallyalone/

Webquest

My role was the efficiency expert. Our group decided on the Underground Railroad because it has a combination of internet research, role play, interaction, and time management.

Wikipedia

a. What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
b. How would you answer the question posed in this piece “How reliable can a source be when anyone can edit it?”? 
Many people watch what appears there, so there is a good chance any errors will be caught.
c. Who do the creators of Wikipedia place their trust in when it comes to weeding out misinformation?
wisdom of crowds
d. Why did founder Larry Sanger leave Wikipedia?
He believes that it should give more authority to experts
e. What would abuse or vandalism look like on a Wikipedia page?
It looks obvious sometimes, and other times there is not reference.
f. What do the statistics quoted in the third paragraph of this piece reveal?
A lot of people visit Wikipedia and read the articles.
g. Why do you think Wikipedia is so successful?
Its a place that contains lots of information from many different places.
h. Why might Wikipedia’s creators not want to accept advertising?
They want the information to be available for free and not have the information biased due to advertising.
i. How does Wikiscanner help increase the reliability of Wikipedia entries?
It quickly exposed examples of self-interested editing by prominent businesses and governments around the world.






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_New

1. Start with the main page. Does it have any cleanup banners that have been placed there to indicate problems with the article? (A complete list is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/
   Cleanup.) No

Any one of the following cleanup banners means the article is anunreliable source:

This article or section has multiple issues.
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
The neutrality of this article is disputed.
The factual accuracy of this article is disputed.
This needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone or spelling.
This may contain material not appropriate for an encyclopedia.
This article only describes one highly specialized aspect of its associated subject.
This article requires authentication or verification by an expert.
This article or section needs to be updated.
This article may not provide balanced geographical coverage on a region.
This is missing citations or needs footnotes.
This article does not cite any references or sources.

2. Read through the article and see if it meets the following requirements:

Is it written in a clear and organized way?	Y
Is the tone neutral (not taking sides)?	Y
Are all important facts referenced (you're told where they come from)?	Y
Does the information provided seem complete or does it look like there are gaps (or just one side of the story)?	Y

3. Scroll down to the article's References and open them in new windows or tabs. Do they seem like reliable sources? (For help in determining the general reliability of a source, check out the Knowing What's What and What's Note: The 5 Ws (and 1 "H") of Cyberspace handout.)
   
   Reliable references:
   
   
   Possibly unreliable references: ^ "Brand New". Punknews.org. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
   
   
   Definitely unreliable references:
   
   
    
4. Click on the Discussion tab. How is the article rated on the Rating Scale(Stub, Start, C, B, GA, A, FA)? What issues around the article are being discussed? Do any of them make you doubt the article's reliability?

        GA, there are only some simple facts that are being disputed.

5. Based on the above questions, give the article an overall ranking ofReliable, Partially Reliable or Unreliable.

• You may use a Reliable article as a source (but remember that even if a Wikipedia article is reliable, it should never be your only source on a topic!)
  
• You may use a Partially Reliable article as a starting point for your research, and may use some
  of its references as sources, but do not us it as a source.
  
• You should not use an Unreliable article as a source or a starting point. Research the same topic in a different encyclopedia.

How did you rank this article (Reliable, Partially Reliable or Unreliable)? Give at least three reasons to support
your answer.

        Reliable. There article is not biased, contains many straight facts, and has a community behind it to make corrections. 

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NLCB Activity

The highest peak occurs in Special Ed. Reading Level 1. However, Reading Level 2 has more peaks than Reading Level 1. Reading Level 1 has 3 peaks while Reading Level 2 has 5 peaks. The lowest peak occurs in Asian Reading Level 2. There are no modes in this set, so there is also no bi-modal score.