Module 4 – Evaluating the Web

Choose your best 'source' or site from the three you used in the last task, then evaluate it according to the tutorial Ohio SU net.Tutor.

LOG ENTRY:
Record your annotation in your learning log. (Allen et al. n.d.)

I believe most of the people will choose an article to do this task unfortunately I am not. I choose this consider my best source because “movie database” is not an article, it is actually a database of all the movies from pass to the latest. As I said before from the previous task I have try quite many of the movies from this database and it actually have all the information, which is why I decided to give it a try for using this “movie database” for this task.


Annotation

This is quite a reliable site for all the movie lovers, it contain not just the latest movie it also have many old and classic movie like “Monkeyshines No. 1” from 1890. This web site is actually very informative about the movie, it gives you all the information about the director, writer, actor and actress, release date, plot, under what movie category, runtime, which country from, language and many more. You can actually click and find out more about the director or anything you are interest in. This site kind a provided almost everything like selling DVD, message board for fans, the latest of TV and movie news, top box-office earn, photo gallery etc. This web site definitely fulfils net. Tutor's 6 main key points, like purpose, author, content, coverage, currency, and recognition. It also mentions more than 57 million movie and TV lover visited every month, I believe this web site not only for movie or TV lovers it is actually for anyone who like to do some research about the movie or TV program.

Reference
The Internet Movie Database. (n.d.). IMDb.com.Inc. Retrieved August 12, 2009, from http://www.imdb.com/



in terms of your own future use, which 'body ' of information (ie. the original 'snapshot' of the site, or your own, annotated, analytical version) would be most useful to refer back to? (Allen et al. n.d.)

I would say the annotated analytical version would be better than snapshot. To be honest the design of the web site not so good, it may not drawn people attention to look at it. Therefore annotated analytical version sure will be the best summary of this web site, because it tell you more of the web site then the snapshot.


In term of external users (i.e. if you included this site as a hyperlink or resource on a website) which body of information would best help them judge if the site was useful or of interest to them? (Allen et al. n.d.)

Same again and I still believe the annotated analytical version would be more useful for the external user. It gives them quick and short summary write-up what is all about the web site, which I don’t think the snapshot would be able to achieve that. My annotation gives them more information than just look at the snapshot, although visual may draw people attention than words, but I don’t think is happen to this web site.


Reference
Allen, M., et al. (n.d.). Module 4: Using the infosphere: taking & organising. Curtin University of Technology. Retrieved August 12, 2009, from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_18825_1&content_id=_985243_1