Week 4

LEARNING REFLECTION JOURNAL

    I learned to use an important web page, it is called www.diigo.com, this web page is an important site that I should keep on mind because it helps me to save web pages that are useful for me, this  page is recommendable because it helps me to save links for not to forget or copying the whole link in a paper. Besides, its features are really good because this page offers some options before to save a link such as to classify the links for having an organized list of our favorites web pages because I can add some information in each one of them using tags that will help me to find the page faster in the search engine
Many Also, this useful page is like a social network, it is good because we can be participant in forums about any topic with our friend to share aour information and ideas. It can be applicable in our studies because most if time we only copy links that we find and are really useful, bur as they are written in a paper they are usually forgotten, but with this tool our favorite pages will not be forgotten because they will be classified and we will have access evrywhere where we have an internet connection to save pages or to participate in forums

Week 3

                                            LEARNING REFLECTION JOURNAL 

    I learned a very important thing about plagiarism, with the web pages that the teacher provides us, I read them and I understood better about what plagiarism is about. We as students sometimes plagiarism without noticing it because sometimes or most of the times we did not know that this is. The reading I read in some web pages was similar, all them saying, "plagiarism is taking the credit for the ideas of someone else", so I understood that the original ideas of people are important because they are produced with time and effort of them. I read that there are many ways of plagiarism such as: rewriting the same words of someone else without using quotation marks, or when we do not cite the resource we took the information from, another way of plagiarism is paraphrising an idea changing it to our own words making easier to understand for the readers but without  mentioning the main page where we took the information. As we could see, there are some forms of plagiarizing, but we can also avoid plagiarism as for example using quotation marks when we mention a complete idea of an author mentioning his name, citing our information resources, when we paraphrise we should not take the complete information of others and just turn it into our own words because the idea of paraphrasing is taking the point of an idea and to develop it using our criteria, and an important thing we should not forget is when we quotate an idea it should not be more than 40 words. A big help is using the APA style to avoid plagiarism, just following its simple concepts and rules for we to create our original ideas in a writing. I lerned all this by researching information on the internet and I think it will be applied in the scholar tasks and in some other fields to avoid plagiarism. Finally, as I did not understand everything about the differences between each kind of topic inside plagiarism I will leave some URLs that helped me a lot to understand it in a better way.

http://www.wallacestate.edu/fileadmin/user_upload/WallaceState/documents/success/apabrochure.pdf

This one is one of a doubt I had about if paraphrasing is plagiarism: http://daria-przybyla.suite101.com/is-paraphrasing-plagiarism-a93600

http://www.uis.edu/academicintegrity/students/plagiarism.html 

This URL has a good exercise to notice when plagiarism is in a context making easier for us to understand it with examples: https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/example1paraphrasing.html

Week 2: Summary

LEARNING REFLECTION JOURNAL

    During this week I have learned some things, as for example, I learned how to participate in a forum discussion in the "Aula virtual" of the university web page. Also, I learned how use "Aula vurtual", with our account that was created to do the assignments and tasks for this subject. At the beginning we all had the same password, after we changed it for one ours to protect aour account of being stolen. I also edited information about me in the account. after that I learned to share my URL blog on "aula virtual".
    Finally, during this week I learned how to participate in forums because it was my very first time participating in one, I learned to analyze the ideas from others in a forum and to agree or desagree their points of view with good arguments to reply tne information given from the other participants. I hope to use all this acquired knowledge during this week to have a clear idea for participation in ther forums opinions related with the information researched on some other web pages. This week was really productive because now I am able to be an active participant in some other online forums with the information that the teacher provided me.

Week 1: Summary

What did I learn?

This was the first class week I had, during this week. Fortunately, I have learned very much, I started studying how to recognize a web page with the help of the web site the teacher provided me, I used that page to have a guide of how to analyse a web page, if it is reliable with updated information or to recognize a web page owner: if it is from a person, company or organization. These methods to identify the content of the web page are really useful for students because I can also notice if the web page provides me some other links that will help me to expand my search, or if its information is only plagiarizsm from other web sites. Finally, now I can know what is the web page purpose and if it has serious scientific or superficial  information to trust the page or to look for a better one.

How did I learn?

The way I learned it was by researching on a web page that really helped me to understand how web pages work, there were also some words related with internet that I did not understand but there was a dictionary that I read to understand some terms that I have never heard. I learned by using the steps from the Evaluating Web Sites resources document I had to complete with my partner, so it was researching on it anbd following the steps. A really useful method I learned to identify the owner of the site was using the "Truncate back the URL", it tought me to look for the administrator's name of the web page and to look his profile and background to check if his information posted on his web page is reliable and professional, but if there was not his profile I learned from the teacher that we only have to lookf for it on the internet. Basically, the effective way I learned it was applying the information I read from the document and applying it one by one with the teacher's help and guide.

How am I going to apply it?

I think I will apply it when I have to look for written information  from a reliable and professional person that have a big and clear knowledge able to share his scientific information about something with others. Also to use it in scholar tasks or to learn more about some topic from a good source I can rely on. All this knowledge I acquired will help me for my future to improve myself using technology to be better in my professional field or to help other to find: good, effective and useful information.