{"id":385,"date":"2004-11-29T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherrycoated.com\/wordpress\/?p=385"},"modified":"2004-11-29T11:47:08","modified_gmt":"2004-11-29T16:47:08","slug":"notes-from-a-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/teaching\/notes-from-a-test","title":{"rendered":"Notes from a test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grading the take-home test from <a href=\"http:\/\/people.umw.edu\/~ernie\/cpsc104\">CPSC 104, The Internet: Technology, Issues &amp; Information<\/a> makes me want to write down a few things to help myself for the next time I teach the course.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasize the different types of writing that will have to be done. On the test students were asked to write a research piece, an opinion piece that was supported by other sources, a site review, and step-by-step instructions. These are typical types of webwriting and the course should include at least one assignment for each type of writing.<\/p>\n<p>Stress the differences between the notions of accuracy and objectivity. Use a site that contains accurate info, but with a slant.<\/p>\n<p>Stress research about an author, even if there is no information at a site that carries the author&#8217;s work. Find out who the author is, what other works she has produced, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Check resources for actual date of authorship, not only using the date on a Web page.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grading the take-home test from CPSC 104, The Internet: Technology, Issues &amp; Information makes me want to write down a few things to help myself for the next time I teach the course. Emphasize the different types of writing that will have to be done. On the test students were asked to write a research [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}