Webpage Subtopics

This week was designed to build more onto our webpages that we had created. We were instructed to create subtopics for our webpage. I chose to divide my areas up very similar to the way I had done it in Google Bookmarks. All my websites were already found and a small summary was made on each one so I divided them up according to their subtopic as it dealt with obesity. I feel as though I have become very good at navigating through Google Sites and Google Bookmarks that I will be able to use them both in the future. I hope that my website will become useful to anyone who stumbles across it.

WebQuest

This week in class we had to create a WebQuest Activity for our webpage. I found this to be pretty fun because I learned about a lot of activities to test knowledge in my undergrad program. I was able to devise an activity that involved everyone in the class and allowed them to gain an insight on a specific area of obesity. Once everyone in the class became an "expert" in their area, they shared their knowledge with the rest of the class. The WebQuest activity was very helpful for me.

Fair Use

This week we had to determine whether or not the use of certain information was fair use or not. We were given a detailed checklist to go by that was very interesting to me. We looked at different scenarios and then had to determine whether or not the information was being used fairly by someone. It was also useful to see what some of our classmates had written about the scenarios because many times we had differences of opinion. The checklist was very useful and I will probably hang on to it and use it down the road.

We also had to create four scenarios of our own that were either fair use or were in violation of it. This was also a great experience because it allowed me to determine just where the line is drawn for fair use.