Friday, July 20, 2012

REAL Review of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

This is a review of the webpage Help Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (at http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus).  The goal of the video is to show educators and students a way of determining whether a website can really be trusted in terms of content for research. I used Allan November's acronym R-E-A-L to analyze the components and content of the website in order to demonstrate how to go about doing this on your own.

This video can also be found at http://youtu.be/QrXdpGLO-dQ
 
This was my first time using ActivePresenter (http://atomisystems.com/activepresenter/) but it went pretty smoothly.  The built in video editing software is not too shabby.  I would recommend it to anyone looking to try out Screencasting

I encourage you to try out your own review of any other site, but here is a list of great examples that are fun to check out even if you don't feel like you are in an educational mindset right now.  Google any of these phrases and they will be the first links:

RYT Hospital Dwayne Medical Center
MartinLutherKing.org
The British Stick Insect Foundation
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
Britain for Americans
Computer Tan
Save the Rennets

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