Evaluating the Web

Having completed a few management courses through OUA I have been reguired to write annotated bibliographies on several occassions, so I felt fairly comfortable writing them as part of the concepts assignment. In saying that I wish I had have looked forward to this module prior to completing the assignment.The Ohio Su tutorial is an excellent tool which shows how to evaluate the entegrity of a website and its reliability by following the 6 main points.
I guess the main point a came away with after completing the tutorial is that all web pages are pushing either ther commercial beliefs if its a business page or personal beleifs if its a blogging or social networking type page. It is essentially up to the reader of the page to determine whether the pages credentials stack up with the information/product/service they are trying to sell.

Here is an annotated bibliography I wrote for my concept assignment-

Facemyer, K.C., 1997, ‘Asynchronicity: Distributed Learning Communities’, Virtual WSU, Washington State University, viewed 31st December 2008. http://www.wsu.edu/vwsu/direction/DirectPapers/Asynchronicity.html


This electronic paper looks at the learning activities of universities and how there teachings can be best described as asynchronous.

In this paper, Facemyer outlines the historical roles of a lecturer and the roles asynchronicity plays in allowing the student to take the information taught by the lecturer and use this in their own time to fulfill their learning objectives.

This paper will help to highlight the concepts outline when used within the context of online learning being just as effective as opposed to learning within a classroom.

The age of this paper is a limitation, so will only be used as a source to argue that, to be able to study in ones own time has allowed opportunities to students irrespective of there circumstances.

This annotation outlines an authors personal opinion on online learning.

I have been fortunate enough through my studies to realise that annotation is a much better form of referencing a web site,reference paper or book than taking a snapshot or extract from the source. I have found by completing an annotation, it does minimise the chance of plagarism.