Archive for September, 2012

Blog 5: Mason’s PowerPoint Presentation “The Basics”

I decided to read up on the copyright basics in the PowerPoint presentation.  I didn’t know the gritty details about the copyright laws, so I thought it would be a good start.  While some of the information was slightly confusing, I did understand that while researching, one has to be aware of what they are copying […]

Published in: Uncategorized on 24/09/2012 at12:57 Comments (0)

Judging Wikipedia

I chose Adolf Hitler as my historical topic to judge Wikipedia.  I have read the majority of his page before and knowing that it was in depth, I thought it would be interesting to see any editing done, sources used, and the history of it all taking place by the volunteers of Wikipedia. I clicked […]

Published in: Uncategorized on 20/09/2012 at09:45 Comments (0)

Blog 4: Heavy Metal Umlaut

For this week, I watched Jon Udell’s video Heavy Metal Umlaut, which talked about how extensive editing can reshape content on Wikipedia using the article page “Heavy Metal Umlaut” as an example.  What I found most interesting is that the we view what Udell is doing on the Wikipedia page as he explains the increase […]

Published in: Uncategorized on 17/09/2012 at10:03 Comments (0)

Blog 2: Research Questions

I was interested in learning more about Nazi Germany, with specifically researching the Hitler Youth Program.  What was the purpose of the Hitler Youth Program?  What were the children specifically taught about Hitler, the war, Jewish religion and people?  Were there any resistors and what did they do?

Published in: Uncategorized on 10/09/2012 at19:53 Comments (0)

HTML Practice Post

Want to learn basic Spanish and Italian? Foreign languages are pretty cool. =) The words will all be in English first, then Español, then Italiano. Hello- Hola- Ciao (informal)/ Salve (very formal) Bye!- Adios!- Ciao! (informal/ Arrivederci! (formal) Please- Por favor- per favore Thank you- Gracias- Grazie You’re welcome- De nada- Prego Let’s try some […]

Published in: Uncategorized on 06/09/2012 at23:05 Comments (0)

Blog 1: The History of the Web

The first thing that captured my attention in the YouTube video, History of the Web, was the following quote: “… the scientific, military, and commercial approaches of these concepts are the foundations of our modern internet.” As the narrator was talking about DARPA, the Rand Corporation, NPL, and Cyclades, (the US scientific, US military, English commericial, and […]

Published in: Uncategorized on 03/09/2012 at10:22 Comments (0)