Researching the Past

Similar to many honors courses here at BYU, Honors 202 requires not only a willingness to work and think, but also a little initiative. Specifically for Digital Civilizations this requires outside research into topics, people and works. In the spirit of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, our esteemed teachers have asked us to use sources other than those normally used for internet searches,and have even provided us with ideas. There are however problems with rejecting established authority, the one that I have discovered, is that most other sources (non-Wikipedia/Google) tend to focus on ideas as opposed to the people, for example, that we are looking at in the class. To illustrate this I am going to perform a side-by-side comparison of results, and then let you draw your own conclusions.

Learning on the Internet

I have long been distrustful of the internet, for one overwhelming reason, anyone can put anything on it, and with this how can you ever know what is real or true? However, Prof. Burton's post on 10 Ways out of the Google or Wikipedia Rut has convinced me that I may as well give it a go and see what I can learn from the collective physic, more commonly known as the internet. Therefore, to test the research tools set I will set up a 1010 part series and systematically research a topic using the list. The topic???