Where are you now?

You have now learned about how to use the SIFT process to evaluate information for credibility and done a simple search on a fresh water object. Your Revision assignment will further your digital literacy by introducing or reminding you of how distance digital learning (online) courses operate and what other digital skills you'll need this semester.

Where you are going?

During your search for credible sources, you likely encountered some difficulties. Understanding how the digital world is created will help you navigate these difficulties.

Your Revision 1 Assignment is in two parts.

• [ ] First, do Lessons 1,2,4, and 5 from the Return to Enter: An Introduction to Distance Digital Education site. You can do Lesson 3 if you want an introduction to D2L, but it's not important for our class.
• [ ] 2nd, apply three pieces of information you learned in Return to Enter to your Project 1 Assignment. Explain how your new knowledge from Return to Enter **would improve your Project 1 in three short paragraphs (minimum of three complete sentences.)

<aside> 💡 All Projects and Revisions should be written with regular, North American, academic English usage. This means writing with complete sentences, with appropriate punctuation and capitalization. I do not expect a formal tone or advanced vocabulary. I do expect work that has been spell checked and proof read.

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Example

In my searches I came across a couple broken or outdated pages at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For example, a timeline that was supposed to include the Arabian Peninsula from 1600 to 1800 CE had the url of https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht//.html but the link returned a "page not found." From the Return to Enter lesson I learned that I can go back to the root Url (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/) to investigate if there is other Arabian material. Diagramming a URL will help me find what I need even if the full link I have is broken. Diagramming a URL also helps me trace (T in SIFT) information back to its sources.

From Lesson 5 of Return to Enter I learned about academic integrity and using citations. In my Project 1 assignment I just dropped URLs, but I now realize I should include authors, publication information, and date accessed. I struggled a bit to keep track of all the sources. From my English class I know that some pages have citation buttons that create a full citation for me, which I'll use in the future. I could also use Zotero to manage all my sources as that software creates bibliographies instantly without me worrying about formatting. So, my big take away is that academic integrity requires I give credit to others for their ideas, words and images and I'm going to work on ways to do that quickly.