Have you internet-searched for your own name lately?

have not been following up with Pew/Internet‘s excellent series of research lately until i saw this in /. today that reminds me of its existence.

this issue entitled “Digital Footprints” released on 16 Dec 07 looks into how people looked at personal identities in the internet, and how development of Web 2.0 has changed pple’s perception of things. believe this 50-pages report would be insightful, will find time to look at it after i have completed the killing examinable assignments *arghh*

check it out 😉

Reliability and Validity in Research

As cited in Golafshani, N. (2003):

Joppe (2000) defines reliability as:
…The extent to which results are consistent over time and an accurate representation of the total population under study is referred to as reliability and if the results of a study can be reproduced under a similar methodology, then the research instrument is considered to be reliable. (p. 1)
Joppe (2000) provides the following explanation of what validity is in quantitative research:
Validity determines whether the research truly measures that which it was intended to measure or how truthful the research results are. In other words, does the research instrument allow you to hit “the bull’s eye” of your research object? Researchers generally determine validity by asking a series of questions, and will often look for the answers in the research of others. (p. 1)

two other websites gathered via google search:
Reliability and Validity: What’s the Difference?
Colorado State University Writing Guide: Overview: Reliability and Validity

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What Is Web 2.0

this article isn’t new, but KT mentioned that perhaps we can weave it into a lit review on audioblogging/podcasting in education that we are preparing. just to capture a few URLs on the topic here as well:
1. What Is Web 2.0 – Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software by Tim O’Reilly
2. Web 2.0 – Wikipedia
3. Mindmap created by Markus Angermeier on November 11, 2005 summarising Web 2.0 presented by Tim O’Reilly on September 30, 2005.