Accessing+Information

The first week we learned about databases and whether or not they are reputable source. It is important to find this out for ethical purposes. This includes finding out who has written the information, if the information is backed up by an organization, how up to date the information is, and who the intended audience is. The second week we talked about copyright laws. There are many different types of laws and rules to abide by. Some laws we can take the information and change it, some we can take use for educational purposes, and there are some that we may not use at all. Copyright laws are important to understand because we need to remember to give credit to the original author. In week three we learned how to evaluate a website and how to do RSS feeds and post them on a Wikispace. It's important to evaluate a website to find out if it is a credible source. We also need to make sure that the information on the website is recent. Week four we learned how to use and process data on excel taken from the surveys that we made in class. We also made accounts on google docs and we used that to make our survey about special education.