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Hello and welcome to our new pandemical world of distance learning!
I'll explain the blog in more depth later but, in general, it is a quick and easy way for me to communicate my instructions and an easy place to go back and look if you are stuck!
This is our first Asynchronous assignment.
- This is an assignment that you do on your own
- It is DUE the night before your next live class (that should be Sunday, right?)
What you know from Sync class
- There are a lot of websites in the world
- There are a lot of them that people in the US never use
- Some of them we all seem to use
- Some of them nobody in this class use
What you are thinking about in this assignment
- Why do people use particular websites for particular things?
- Why do you go to the websites that YOU do?
- What do those websites do for you and how do they do it?
THE ASSIGNMENT
Think about the websites from the poll in class. (The list is at the bottom of this page**) you will write your answers on a form in a moment
Now, choose THREE of the websites below that you visit and ask yourself these questions.
- Why do I go there?
- What do I get from it?
- How are they giving it to me?
- What is the reason I go THERE and not some other similar website?
Now think about your favorite website (that is not one of the three you already chose and is also school appropriate) and ask yourself the same questions:
- Why do I go there?
- What do I get from it?
- How are they giving it to me?
- What is the reason I go THERE and not some other similar website?
After thinking go to THIS FORM and put in your answers. Try to write complete sentences, with complete ideas.
**The Curated List of US & Intl Websites**
Amazon: E-commerce and cloud computing
Apple.com: Online shopping & tech support
Baidu: Internet-related services and products
Bing: Web search engine
Blogspot/Blogger: Blogging
CNN: News
eBay: Online auctions and shopping
Facebook: Social networking
Google: Internet services and products
Haosou: Internet security and web search engine
Instagram: Photo sharing and social media
Jingdong Mall: Online shopping
Linked in: Social networking
Microsoft Office: Online office suite
Microsoft Online: Software
Microsoft: Software and technology
Netflix: Streaming TV and movies
Okezone [id]: Portal
Reddit: Social news and entertainment
Sina Weibo: Social networking
Sohu: Portal
Stack Overflow: Question and answer site
Taobao: Online shopping
Tencent QQ: Portal
Twitch: Streaming primarily on video games
Twitter: Social networking
Walmart: Online shopping
Wikipedia: Encyclopedia
Windows Live: Software plus services
Xinhua News Agency: News
Yahoo!: Portal and media
YouTube: Video sharing
Zillow: Real Estate
Zoom Video Communications: Videotelephony
Bored..?