Chris Nolan

When Chris Nolan came to talk to our class last Tuesday, I will admit that I was a little sceptacle over if I would actually learn anything new. But shortly into his presentation, this mind set changed as I imediately began to learn. I thought i knew the basics of how to search on the Internet, however I was wrong. One thing I learned from Chris is that when you search on google for instance, the list of results is not by which website is best, but by how often they are used everyday. So its not always the best information that shows up first on your list. Also, .com sites are not always the best sources of infromation, and .org sites are usually form religous or political groups trying to sell something to you. .edu and .gov sites however are usually highly relaible on the other hand and provide fact filled information. Thanks to Chris' presentation, I now feel more comfortable in searching for information in order to do a project or write a paper.