Wikiventure

Day 1: What's the Big Idea

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The Shift from Browsing to Searching

From AOL to Yahoo! to Google and Back Again

Web 2.0: Welcome to the Read / Write Web

Some BIG Ideas

Simplicity of Use

Free and Open

Collective Intelligence

Dynamic Content

User as Producer not just Consumer

Social Capital

Web 2.0 according to Wikipedia

New Literacies

http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/

The 5 Functions of New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension

IDENTIFYING important questions

LOCATING information

ANALYZING information

SYNTHESIZING information

COMMUNICATING information

Bluff The Internet Searcher Game!

As a tribute to one of my favorite radio shows, NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me..." I present "Bluff the Internet Searcher!"

Here are some of my favorite Internet Hoaxes and one that is just plain funny.

Which is the most "reliable?"

Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

RYT Hospital

www.rythospital.com

Dog Island

www.thedogisland.com

Where to Hide from Mother Nature

Storrs, CT - The safest place to live in America

www.slate.com/id/2126321/

Like those? Here is a whole site of Internet Hoaxes

www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html