While I found much of Mr. Nolan's presentation very interesting, I have been practicing many of the techniques and cautions that he talked to us about. The only thing that was new for me was that you could search exclusively for .org, .edu, and .gov websites using the advanced search option on Google. I can clearly recall several instances in the past in which I wanted to find websites that were not commercial sites on Google for research, but had to wade through .com websites to get to the .gov, .edu, and .org websites that I wanted. I think this new ability will help me in the future to search more effectively when looking for resources for papers.
I was surprised by the Martin Luther King Jr. website that was really a white power website that Mr. Nolan had us evaluate. If I had run across this website while looking for resources, I wouldn't have used it anyway, but I was shocked at how the white power group masked their biased information on that website.
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Yes, it is shocking. It seems like the Web has the power for good and for evil. Some other sites are much more difficult to evaluate.
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