Reflection 2

After completing the MAPping information activity, what are your reactions to your findings? What will you do differently while searching on the Internet for information now? How confident are you with the information you've used in the past (as part of your college career and/or in your profession)?

• After completing the MAPping information activity I realized that I knew very little about the resources that I utilized for research purposes. After using the resources presenting in this weeks section, I will do a better job of examining and finding more creatable resources. At this time I will try to gather a number of credible sites that I can keep on my delicious bookmark. I am concerned about information that I have used in the past. And to be honest I am glad that information is in my past, yet concerned because some sites that I now know are not creditable were deemed creditable by my peers, instructors and myself.

What are some implications for the future of our students if we fail to teach them these skills in school? After all, the schools may block access to sites, but students still have access at home.

Do you see any advantages for organizing your information via Delicious and/or Google Reader? What are some ways you think you could use these tools in the future?

• If we do not teach these skills to our students then they will have a greater chance of learning inaccurate information. With inaccurate information, our current students will become uneducated  students who believe they are knowledge of various subjects. If this form of teaching is not done quickly and efficiently then we continue a generational course that will be damaging to society as a whole.

• I just returned from out of town this week. However while out of town I was transferring a friend of mines information to a new computer. the old computer moved so slow that it took me a couple of days to complete everything. One of the main issues was that he wanted to transfer his favorites section from the old computer to the new. Now if his computer would have been working better, like he told me, then I would have already known about Delicious and could have utilized it instead of copying his Favorites from the old to the new computer. Hindsight. Well now that I know better, I can do better.

This week, you also explored the concept of wikis and created a wiki for a specific purpose. What purpose did you have in mind when developing your wiki and have you started to implement your ideas yet?

• My wiki is going to help me function better with my students at my congregation. We will now be able to formulate better discussion questions for our bible class, as well as utilize the wiki to plan some very important upcoming events. I will be sending out the site to a number of them on Sunday, to have them subscribe and get to work. I think this will make things a lot easier.

What advantages do you see in utilizing wikis? What disadvantages do you see? Think back to the digital natives reading. How do wikis have the potential for engaging them?

• The main advantage I see is that it will resolve the distance issue that my members were having with being involved in bible studies. Also to help us become more organized on who is doing what, and what is needed done for various task. One disadvantage that I see is my members utilizing the wiki when they may be able to come to bible class.The easy way out may become their way of being engaged, instead of meeting face-to-face. Wiki do have the power to engage, by giving people the ability to be a teacher/facilitator and not just a learner. When people are able to contribute some for of knowledge, they are more likely to participate in the event.