NET 11: Module 4 - Searching the web

Organising search information task

First, choose the best three sources found in the previous task

Using whatever software or tool you think appropriate, record the following information about those sites:

* URL.
* author,
* institution,
* blurb/ summary / screen shot (this can be a direct copy of an appropriate abstract or introductory paragraph on the site: but make sure you record and reference it as such)

Again, using any useful software you have downloaded, or utilising your existing software, record this information on your computer in the way that you think will be most useful to you in terms of preparing for your concepts assignment (that is, in terms of how easy you will find it to access, retrieve, understand, contextualise and recall why you saved it - and with what!).

* LOG ENTRY:
Record this information in your learning log, and also detail how you saved this information, what software you used and why.

This is kinda weird since I've already done the assignment, but meh w/e.

URL: Blinklist. I can add it to it's own area include a comment to remind me of why I chose that site and if my computer packs it in, it doesn't matter.

Author: Again Blinklist, just add the information to the comment when blinking the site. Copy and paste! (I'm guessing you mean author of the article not author of the page >.>)

Institution: Blinklist >.> for the same reason as above.

Blurb or Summary: Blinklist. Can just add it to the comment.

Screenshot: Fraps. Hit F12 and then move the file into an appropriate folder, after renaming the file so I knew what it was for.

Other than Blinklist I didn't use any software to get the info I needed when I did my assignment and more often then not I just wrote a few notes to remind myself of things on a piece of paper. I've got absolutely not intentions or interest in downloading a website onto my computer and everything listed can be obtained by copy and paste.

Note ~ Of course it's just dawned on me that the words in the search might have had to have something to do with this course and with the concepts assignment... even though there's no mention of that till the end of the tasks page.

So technically the first part of this is still right, since it did say -> "words of your choosing", but I guess I'll drag out some bookmarks that I had for the concepts assignment and use those for the rest.

URL: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html
Author: Jakob Nielsen
Institution: Nielsen Norman Group
Blurb/summary/screenshot: Detailed information about the reading pattern of web users and in particular the F-Shaped pattern.

URL: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=120470
Author: Sara Dickenson Quinn
Institution: The Poynter Institute
Blurb/summary/screenshot: Script from a presentation about the reading habits of online and offline news readers.

URL: http://www.psy.dmu.ac.uk/drhiles/Savant%20Syndrome.htm
Author: Dave Hiles
Institution: The Virtual Office of Dave Hiles
Blurb/summary/screenshot: An essay by Dr David Hiles about the Savant syndrome.