Yesterday was great as well! We discussed how to search information on the internet. We learnt that in many cases we type so many details in the search engine while a simple word can get you to the same details and give you more information. This means that at times we direct ourselves to the wrong information by typing so many words which are unnecessary. Funny was that the fastest results were from Wikipedia, yet we labeled it as not trustworthy. Fact is one needs to go to the links to get to the original source-that makes it trustworthy!
I learnt that most of our students are prone to plagiarism simply because they do not go further than the links they come across in the texts that they copy and paste from the sites they find. Majority of whom i believe have no knowledge on how to go about the links.
Minor details like choosing the right search words, opening pages in new tabs, trying different google search options, going to original sources by following links, are things most of us never took seriously but have learnt to be of importance.
The greatest part was learning how to make links in our own texts in the blogs. I never knew it was as simple as highlighting, copying and pasting the original link and clicking 'ok' that turns a word into a highlighted word!
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