Thursday, April 15, 2010

Looking for pictures

I will start my website implying the question of Wikipedia’s credibility. I will start with an unknown source, so the website will be black with a white door opening, in flash animation. This is the only place the reader can click, since it is the beginning of my website. After the door is open, the reader will be lead to a white page with a lot of heads of people with different ideas about Wikipedia’s credibility. By the end, the reader will be able to conclude about Wikipedia’s credibility by himself or herself. Right now, I am looking for pictures and figures in which I will be including in my website…

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Free Writing and an Invitation for Stephanie to Join Me. Anyone Else Interested?

First of all, I will confess that I am lost and I don’t know yet what I am doing for sure, but wait! I think I have an idea: I think that creating a website to talk about Wikipedia’s credibility would be a good idea! Maybe Stephanie and I could put our research papers together and work on the same topic? I am thinking about starting from a dark website representing the unknown. From there it is going to have a door that will take you to a lot of heads from all over the world. Some heads will be mad, some will be happy, some will be thinking. Each head that the person clicks will tell a different idea about Wikipedia’s credibility. After clicking in all heads (including teachers, professional, student, and people who are not academic heads), the last head will take the reader to a conclusion. In the conclusion, there will be a picture of a connected world or knowledge somehow. It will be showing Wikipedia’s success in maintaining its articles creditable, and the connection of all knowledge from all over the world solving the problem of the unknown. ..kind of like that! LOL What do you think Stephanie? Wanna help me out here? LOL

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Therapy Session For My Research Paper

I started my research paper looking for Wikipedia's credibility, but I found so many interesting articles on Wikipedia talking about the community and correlating it to Wikipedia's credibility, that I ended up changing a lot of my ideas. There are a lot of people criticizing Wikipedia, but they are failing to see that Wikipedia is just another step into a future where people will be able to learn faster based in community knowledge. In the other hand, students, and even professors and librarians are changing their perspective into the whole idea of individual authority. I feel exhausted by having to read so many articles that lead me to different question, that lead me to different articles that lead me to different ideas that lead me to a different paper. As time is passing, I sit here, changing paragraphs, adding different points of views, and even deleting and changing ideas. By the end of the day, I look at my paper, and I feel like it is still not enough.

After all, I will have to work on my ESL mistakes and try to make it sound more coherent. As I look into each paragraph, I feel like I could add much more information, but each paragraph is already enormous. Then, I think about dividing each paragraph in half, but the ideas are all connected and it feels like it is not right to make each paragraph short, when there are still so many more ideas I could add into it.


On one hand, I am very tired since it is a time consuming task, but in the other hand I know that I’ve been learning so much with this research paper. I am gaining a lot of experience, and I am learning how to analyze in my own research from the experience of the other researchers, and the surveys they have done. I am also getting experience searching for research articles.

Picture found:http://www.softwaremag.com/archive/2002-02/images/E-Learning.jpeg

I have to admit that I am also frustrated with the fact that every time I try to make an appointment in the Writing Center, they are full. I think that there should be more people working there.

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Ok… now, that I am done with my therapy session, and Nathalia is already asleep, I better get back to my research paper before I run out of time…