Website on digital immigration 2
This website is a wiki site and so the information may not be as reliable as other sites, because anyone can post the information on these sites. They are open to every one. Although the site was set up by Berkman Centre For Internet and society At Harvard Law School and the Research Centre for information law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. These students are hosting and working on the core of this site and so it may be slightly more reliable than other wiki websites. The main page is the one with most of the information. The talk about qwhat the Digital Native pages is, why they have used a wiki for there project, an introduction to the life of digital natives, the questions for discursssion, other places they are places, eg facebook and what they are currently reading. All these sections on the homepage are valid because they explain what they are doing and why. The problem is the other navigations on the page are limited. For instance when you click on current events and donations there is no text on the page. These links are dead and so until they have information for these links maybe they should not be there. Also you have to be a member of the site inorder to read any discussions that have been created.
4 comments:
Kayleigh,
Oooh, I'm not so sure about the validity of this site....though you do seem to be aware of this yourself and you give considered reasoning to this. Did you find because students have written on it, that it was easy to understand in non-jargon terms?
All the best
Emma
The information was not any less jargon than some of the other sites that i found, but they do go ot an IV league college in america and this may be the reason why!
I think some websites written by students are not necessarily less academic, but the style of writing is much more accessible and easy to understand. Like I've said on my blog, sometimes it's easier to understand what's been said in a lecture when your peers describe their take on what was said.
I think this is true as well, this is one of teh reasons i look at websites like this, because they do break it down in to easier language. So i can understand exactly what i am wrting about.
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