Lecture
The lecture consisted on showing us how to use the World Wide Web (WWW). It showed us how the Internet is different from the web such as the sort of information obtain in the web are sounds, videos and documents, whilst the net showed computers. The lecture also stated different Internet terms such DNS (Domain Name System) and HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). The was created by Tim Berners-Lee 1989 to facilitate information sharing. This lecture also stated shortcuts to the key board and how to use it.
Reading
The reading for week 7 consisted of search engines that are commonly used by people that helps with seraching. A brief history of the WWW was also added in the reading to provide a little background of how the WWW came to be.
Workshop
The workshop this week consisted of us identifying and authenticating websites. The first activity was to show two websites and analyze it's authenticity.
Haggishunt.scotsman.com
- The website has no author of the page.
- The publisher was scotsman.com haggishunt is just a link to that website
- T.he webpage is scattered with various advertisement links.
- Mostly photos on the webpage.
Molossia.org
- Most article's in the website has no author.
- One of the article shows at the bottom a note which states " This is not a recognized educational institution, military or otherwise, and is not accredited by any organization" which is not a reliable source of information.
- Most of the article is all pictures with little information.
- It says that this webpage has been around for 30 years starting at 1977, which is false since the net started at 1989.
The next acitvity consisted in predicting what to expect on this website - http://www.martinlutherking.org/.
What i expect from this site is probably articles relating to Martin Luther King like his biography his works such as his famous speech etc. judging from the web address this is a non profit organisation which explains the .org so I expect opinions from people who did website about Martin Luther King.
After visiting the site it gave me the impression of a fake website which shows made stories of Martin Luther King.
After looking around the website I noticed that most the articles are referenced and obtain from different sources making it actually real and not made stories of Martin Luther King.
