7th Wikipedia Edit

I have made my first wikipedia edit to the article, Berlin Township, New Jersey. Many people do not realize that there is a difference between Berlin and Berlin Township, New Jersey.. they are in fact, two different towns. Berlin sends its students to Eastern High School while Berlin Township sends its students to Overbrook High School in Pinehill, New Jersey. I made a change within the sentence, "Schools in the district are John F. Kennedy Elementary School for Preschool through 4th grade and Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School for grades 5-8." The first version read "PreK-4" so I changed it to "Preschool through 4th grade" because I thought it sounded better. Feel free to check it out!

Required Blog List Post 4

I also came across the article, "15 Year-Old Scams YouTube", on Slashdot and thought it also peaked my interest. The article states that "a fifteen year old from Perth, Australia, posed as an employee of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, demanding that YouTube remove hundreds of video clips of 'The Chasers War on Everything.' The amusing part is that The Chaser is a comedy company well known to perpetrate exactly this sort of prank." While this article was relatively funny, I also found it to be relevant to the Viacom vs. Google case that we spoke about in class. Viacom was demanding Google/YouTube to take down certain video clips from YouTube's site. It seems that YouTube has been dealing with not only Viacom, but other companies, with this issue.

Required Blog List Post 3

After reading through some of the blog posts on the required blog list, I came across the article, "Should Schools Block Sites Like Wikipedia?" on Slashdot. The post states that a school board blocked Wikipedia from the entire school, including teachers and faculty because the information on the site is created and edited by users; therefore, it is not a reliable or credible source. I thought this was particularly interesting because we are editing wikipedia articles in this course. I have used wikipedia as a research tool for initial research, but have not relied completely on the information provided on the site itself. I think that wikipedia is a good source to use as a starting point when researching and I do not think that the school system, or any school system, should block the site from its students.

6th Wikipedia Edit

I've made my 3rd wikipedia edit to my 2nd article, Eastern High School. I added the sentence, "There are presently approximately 2,225 students enrolled at the two high schools" to the article. I thought it was important for the article to state the number of students who are enrolled at Eastern High School.

STIUQXELA

The class is conducting an experiment on the keyword, "stiuqxela", to see whether or not it will come up as a result after doing a keyword search on google.

5th Wikipedia Edit

I made my 2nd Wikipedia to my 2nd article, Eastern High School. I added the sentence, "Eastern Senior and Eastern Intermediate are located on the same site, however, operate independently." The entry previously stated that there are two high schools-- one for grades 9 and 10 and the other for grades 11 and 12-- but it did not mention that the two schools were located on the same site. I thought this was important to note in the article. Check out my changes!