WIKIPEDIA
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake. Its epicentre was near the town of Léogâne, approximately 25 km (16 miles) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.[3][4] By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater had been recorded.[5] As of Feb. 12, an estimated three million people were affected by the quake;[6] the Haitian Government reports that between 217,000 and 230,000 people had been identified as dead, an estimated 300,000 injured, and an estimated 1,000,000 homeless. The death toll is expected to rise.[7][8] They also estimated that 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed or were severely damaged.[9]
Correction
it may exceed 100,000 people had been identified as dead,
CORRECT WEB'S CITATION
CNN's Ivan Watson, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Susan Candiotti, Gary Tuchman, Chris Lawrence, Anderson Cooper, Brian Byrnes, Felicity Cruikshank, Hada Messia, Richard Greene and Mike Mount , . "Haiti appeals for aid; official fears 100,000 dead after earthquake." CNN World. January 13, 2010 10:57 p.m. EST. CNN, Web. 23 Feb 2010. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/13/haiti.earthquake/index.html
DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS
1. Use the fact of the web site of CNN includind a few other reliable sourses too (BBC, FOX)
2. Add the sourses to the reference on Wikipedia.
3. Follow the steps of the method of finding inaccuracy in Investigation.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
testing method of inaccuracy
We found an inaccruacy on wikipedia about the number of deaths caused by the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. On wikipedia it says 217,000 230,000 people have died. And on the website of CNN it says 100,000. CNN is a worldwide source of news and information which will contain more accurate and depenabble facts and datas compared to wikipedia. To make sure that CNN was absolutly correct we looked at the citations. The proof on CNN was that the Government official said the number of deaths. And many CNN professional reporters worked together to write this article, which increases the accuracy. On wikipedia, it says it's an estimation, and normal unprofessionals edited it.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Investigate Answers to Questions
Enkhi and Temuulen
Wikiality- investigate
Where does Wikipedia get its information from?
-From volunteers all around the world
Who is in charge of deciding of what goes into the article and what gets removed form an article?
-They have staff and administrators in an office and they decide what gets removed from an article.
If there is some debate about whether a particular bit of information should or should not be included in an article, what is the process of deciding?
-People try to come to an agreement being neutral no page of information can be biased.
How reliable do you think Wikipedia is?
-It is reliable because there are many staffs that work for Wikipedia that have reliable sources so they check what people wrote and they can delete anything that is false. Every half an hour or so, someone checks a page of information.
How would you know whether a particular article really is accurate?
-The only way to know if a piece of information is accurate and reliable is if there is citation. But on Wikipedia there is rarely citation, so you have to use your instincts to trust that piece of information or not.
How would you go about discovering whether an article contains inaccurate information?
-If it doesn’t have citation, you may not want to trust it, but if it seems to be true, then it’s just your decision.
Method to find inaccuracies
1. Research about that topic and read info’s
2. Compare the original info’s from other sites with the one in the Wikipedia
3. Look for citation
4. Look for one piece of info from the Wikipedia and from another site that is reliable and see if that piece of info is same.
Wikiality- investigate
Where does Wikipedia get its information from?
-From volunteers all around the world
Who is in charge of deciding of what goes into the article and what gets removed form an article?
-They have staff and administrators in an office and they decide what gets removed from an article.
If there is some debate about whether a particular bit of information should or should not be included in an article, what is the process of deciding?
-People try to come to an agreement being neutral no page of information can be biased.
How reliable do you think Wikipedia is?
-It is reliable because there are many staffs that work for Wikipedia that have reliable sources so they check what people wrote and they can delete anything that is false. Every half an hour or so, someone checks a page of information.
How would you know whether a particular article really is accurate?
-The only way to know if a piece of information is accurate and reliable is if there is citation. But on Wikipedia there is rarely citation, so you have to use your instincts to trust that piece of information or not.
How would you go about discovering whether an article contains inaccurate information?
-If it doesn’t have citation, you may not want to trust it, but if it seems to be true, then it’s just your decision.
Method to find inaccuracies
1. Research about that topic and read info’s
2. Compare the original info’s from other sites with the one in the Wikipedia
3. Look for citation
4. Look for one piece of info from the Wikipedia and from another site that is reliable and see if that piece of info is same.
Monday, February 8, 2010
WIKIALITY
We have started a new unit called Wikiality. It is about the wikipedia put in real life so that we can understand about the things that wiki-ers go through.
To get started, we got in pairs and made wiki's of our own. I got together with Binderya. It is really easy to make a wiki. You just go on pbwiki.com and create an account. Once you have created and account, you can put new posts and stuff just like on blogger.
Then, we put on our script that we did a long time ago. Our page was changed, but better than some other people's. On our page, the words were switched around and making the meaning of our script exactly the opposite. Lots of it were very funny, to tell the truth. But if i were a serious wiki-er and put on real information that i think is important for other people, and then people go and change it just for fun, i think it would be really fustrating and i would feel unworthy because people are not making my wiki worthy to them. Only our class kids edited eachother's pages, so they put really funny stuff. It was fun to see all the funny things that they wrote.
When someone has changed a wiki, you can change it back, but it might be hard. You have to look at recent activity and see exactly what people changed. You can look at it and change it back. Sometimes it might be difficult because someone might have changed a huge amount of things.
Wikis i think is not a very good site to put anythink on. Even if you put just a sentence saying "i love apples" anyone can go on there and put false information that some other person can see and think that you wrote it, getting a false understanding of you. It is better to have nothing than to have some fake things.
The ways that wikis could be used are:
-just for fun
-get feedback or surveys of some sort
I think the best way is to question people for their ideas and opinions. For example, you could ask people to say what they think about global warming. The people can edit it and tell you what they feel. It is still not a good way because after someone wrote something thoughtful, someone else can go on it and mess up what they wrote. I think there is a lock button on a wiki. But if there is'nt, then there definitely should be.
The people who create these wikis can be anyone. Mostly people from the wiki staff put the main information up in the beginning and others can change them. Other people can make wikis too. They dont have to only edit posted wikis.
Why use wiki? Because it is a universal and widespread source of information. It is rare that informatin is true. The people that edit them are, like i said previously, are the wiki staff and administratives.
Our task is to find a wiki and make changes on it. The create part is to edit a wiki, but only one that has false information.
To get started, we got in pairs and made wiki's of our own. I got together with Binderya. It is really easy to make a wiki. You just go on pbwiki.com and create an account. Once you have created and account, you can put new posts and stuff just like on blogger.
Then, we put on our script that we did a long time ago. Our page was changed, but better than some other people's. On our page, the words were switched around and making the meaning of our script exactly the opposite. Lots of it were very funny, to tell the truth. But if i were a serious wiki-er and put on real information that i think is important for other people, and then people go and change it just for fun, i think it would be really fustrating and i would feel unworthy because people are not making my wiki worthy to them. Only our class kids edited eachother's pages, so they put really funny stuff. It was fun to see all the funny things that they wrote.
When someone has changed a wiki, you can change it back, but it might be hard. You have to look at recent activity and see exactly what people changed. You can look at it and change it back. Sometimes it might be difficult because someone might have changed a huge amount of things.
Wikis i think is not a very good site to put anythink on. Even if you put just a sentence saying "i love apples" anyone can go on there and put false information that some other person can see and think that you wrote it, getting a false understanding of you. It is better to have nothing than to have some fake things.
The ways that wikis could be used are:
-just for fun
-get feedback or surveys of some sort
I think the best way is to question people for their ideas and opinions. For example, you could ask people to say what they think about global warming. The people can edit it and tell you what they feel. It is still not a good way because after someone wrote something thoughtful, someone else can go on it and mess up what they wrote. I think there is a lock button on a wiki. But if there is'nt, then there definitely should be.
The people who create these wikis can be anyone. Mostly people from the wiki staff put the main information up in the beginning and others can change them. Other people can make wikis too. They dont have to only edit posted wikis.
Why use wiki? Because it is a universal and widespread source of information. It is rare that informatin is true. The people that edit them are, like i said previously, are the wiki staff and administratives.
Our task is to find a wiki and make changes on it. The create part is to edit a wiki, but only one that has false information.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Evalutaion: my podcast
The unit of “Podcasts to examine adolescence” has come to an end. I think I have learnt a lot on podcasts and adolescence. I learnt more about me by thinking about me and my friends. I realized that all friends aren’t that good friends but still you need them.
For my podcast, I think it was audible and clear. I published it on podomatic.com. In the beginning I though I was going to use podcastalley.com but it was too complicated due to the fact that I am bad at technology, not the school subject technology but technology.
My podcast was about a teenager. Me. And the last maybe I should have talked more about friends because that would have made it better.
At the beginning, we did many things for investigate and that was the most fun part. I like interviewing my friends and my dad. It felt like I was an interviewer. When me and Binderya made a test practice podcast, it was fun too because I went to her house. When I had to do the podcast, it was kind of boring for me, to tell the truth. I might have picked the wrong topic, but it was just not that exciting for me, so design was a little tricky for me, but after I had picked my topic, it was easy making the outline about what I was going to talk about. I think the making the plan was short and easy. For the create part, I just had to change the script around a bit and record it. Publishing it on a site was the hard part.
According to my design specifications, most of them were achieved: it was loud and clear, I think what I talked about made sense and it does show emotion. But the things that were not achieved were the music in the background and 10-15 minutes long. It was totally not 10 minutes long, it was 3 minutes.
My test as I said in the beginning of the unit, is to make at least 2 people read it and answer questions I wrote. The questions were:
• Do you think this podcast was true and it relates to my life from what you know about me?
• Was it over exaggerated?
• Does this relate to your life in any way? And how?
• Would you recommend this to other people? Who?
My two classmates answered very positively so I think it makes my podcast reasonable and it relates close to them. They said it does relate closely to me as well as to them. They both said it was not over exaggerated. And one of them said they would recommend it to a person looking for a close friend.
This is the end of the unit called “Podcasts to examine adolescence.” I think it was a great way to learn about all the podcast in the world that it is out there, and also about my adolescence life as well as others.
For my podcast, I think it was audible and clear. I published it on podomatic.com. In the beginning I though I was going to use podcastalley.com but it was too complicated due to the fact that I am bad at technology, not the school subject technology but technology.
My podcast was about a teenager. Me. And the last maybe I should have talked more about friends because that would have made it better.
At the beginning, we did many things for investigate and that was the most fun part. I like interviewing my friends and my dad. It felt like I was an interviewer. When me and Binderya made a test practice podcast, it was fun too because I went to her house. When I had to do the podcast, it was kind of boring for me, to tell the truth. I might have picked the wrong topic, but it was just not that exciting for me, so design was a little tricky for me, but after I had picked my topic, it was easy making the outline about what I was going to talk about. I think the making the plan was short and easy. For the create part, I just had to change the script around a bit and record it. Publishing it on a site was the hard part.
According to my design specifications, most of them were achieved: it was loud and clear, I think what I talked about made sense and it does show emotion. But the things that were not achieved were the music in the background and 10-15 minutes long. It was totally not 10 minutes long, it was 3 minutes.
My test as I said in the beginning of the unit, is to make at least 2 people read it and answer questions I wrote. The questions were:
• Do you think this podcast was true and it relates to my life from what you know about me?
• Was it over exaggerated?
• Does this relate to your life in any way? And how?
• Would you recommend this to other people? Who?
My two classmates answered very positively so I think it makes my podcast reasonable and it relates close to them. They said it does relate closely to me as well as to them. They both said it was not over exaggerated. And one of them said they would recommend it to a person looking for a close friend.
This is the end of the unit called “Podcasts to examine adolescence.” I think it was a great way to learn about all the podcast in the world that it is out there, and also about my adolescence life as well as others.
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