Experiments in digital creation.

This week is more of a work week in class where we submit a final project and start working on a new one. It is a transitional week where I find myself ready to be fully immersed in final projects. It feels so satisfying to be at the end of the semester. This is my…

Verified, over the course of many weeks, has indeed come to its end. Verified has uncovered many blankets over the pondering questions of the internet over the course of just a handful of chapters, and after it all, the final chapter still managed to surprise me. A simple and completely understandable answer of the group,…

This week we finished the book we were reading, Verified. The final chapter moved away from the Internet focused strategies and focused more on you as a reader. This chapter was about feelings and how to use feelings in a way that is beneficial. Using the strengths of both feelings and analysis together is much…

This week’s reading was pretty cool. I struggle to use those words and mean them regarding most course readings (barring Beowulf and the Romantic era of poetry), but I do mean it this time. I have emotion’s role in discerning whether or not a source is worth reading, critical ignoring (!!!), and the potential death…

Well guys, this last reading marks the end of an era. We never have to think about Sam and Mike again. We probably still will but when we do it will be of our own volition. Anti-Spock propaganda I hate to say it but I thought this chapter on emotion wasn’t really saying much. Maybe…

The book that we’ve been reading throughout the past few weeks is finally done, including both the introduction and the conclusion. What a good read! I actually thoroughly enjoyed Verified. If you somehow are someone who is not part of our class and are reading this post, I encourage you to read it! Mike Caulfield…

Welp, we’ve finally finished up Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg’s Verified! I’ve really enjoyed this book, and am glad that I decided to buy it as opposed to renting it. It has shown me how many of the internet fact checking practices I used before were, essentially, time wasters. I know that I’m not the…

The Last of Verified With the end of “Verified” comes the last few lessons to take away from our designated Internet driving manual. We’ve focused so much on taking more logical processes when deducing if something is fake or not on the internet, but now we return to the most basic method of deciding things:…

The first part of the title sounds like something you’d hear in therapy, but I think it’s the best way to describe chapter ten of Verified. Caulfield and Wineburg say that rather than completely shutting off your feelings when looking at online information (and potential misinformation), it’s better to think of them as a partner…

We did it! We finally finished reading through Wineburg and Caulfield’s Verified. We discussed the last couple chapters and post-script sections in class this week. We’re also finishing up our own Verification Quests, implementing the strategies we’ve learned on a “real-world” situation, and moving on to the Interactive Nonfiction. The final sections of Verified covered…