Async Assignment 1 [M1L1]

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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

[If you  did not do the poll in class click HERE - bit.ly/DLE820 - before continuing]

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..?

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