Information Creation as a Process Blog Homework

Information Creation as a Process Blog Homework

Identify the format of the sources you find for your research topic (see Research as Inquiry) and articulate why the chosen formats are appropriate for the information need.

The Topic that I chose for Research as Inquiry is 'An investigation of the social networking behaviour of grade 9 high school learners at john ramsay senior secondary school'.

For the first activity they will need to listen to interviews which means podcasts may come in handy, they may also go on sites like youtube, an expert knows that no format is absolete. Content translation or from one source to the next therefore listening may help in direct translation of not just what is said but also how it is said. For this purpose podcasts are very valuable.

Books are another format that I used on this topic because I needed to get an overview of the various perspectives on social media, and how the social media effects learners lives especially as young people are very impressionable. This is what books do, they give information on various topics and gives you the certainty that it is well-researched.

How can one mention a topic on social media and not mention the 'Internet' as a source of information that is very much appropriate for this topic especially. One may take a look into this persons social history on 'Whatsapp' and identify on which side of the scale the person belongs to.

Transform the information that you have created in one format to another format, and write a reflection on what you needed to consider as you went through the process.

Various articles I read and placed on a blog. I considered writing an article about it but time is something that I took into consideration and the main idea was for the content to be made available to aid in the development of other people, and if a blog can get the job done in less time then, I felt, it is a bonus. Another thing I considered was the fact that it would have to also first be accepted by an editor and reviewed for errors. A blog is less time consuming and it doesn't ask for degrees and published work of any format can be used depending on the context. It is appropriate because the topic requires one-one-one sessions gaining persons perspectives on a certain topic, podcasts therefore serve a good purpose because one can go on such sites to listen to podcasts as a lot of information is lost in translation or from one source to the next therefore listening may help in direct translation of not just what is said but also how it is said. For this purpose podcasts are very valuable.

A List of the Sources that I used 

Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QWoP6jJG3k)
I chose youtube because it is easily accessible and a lot of iformation is lost in audio, or articles because many times those formats do not account for a persons body language and in many cases a persons body language tells you alot more than what they are actually saying so in this case youtube and other video sources are very reliable and preferred.

Online Articles
Here I chose an online article to explain what is being said about Social Media and School Children just to briefly get an idea what the general feelings are surrounding the topic of Social Media having a bad affect on school children and came across the following article. https://sites.ewu.edu/cmst496-stafford/2012/06/06/the-effects-of-social-media-on-children/

Magazine Article
Why I chose this magazine article in particular is because it pertained to the topic I am investigating and accessing magazine articles are easy to access and can be obtained without the need of intermediary tools such as computers and internet. You can easily go back and forth with a magazine article and do not have to worry about 'Eskom' and 'Loadshedding'.

Blogs
Blogs can be created and accessed by anyone with internet access and a computer so when it comes to ease of access, blogs as a format should be at the top of the list especially seeing that you get many blogs that are what is termed as 'Academic Blogs'. So to the point of relevance, they can be very relevant and sometimes blogs in general can be very opiniated so it is up to the reader to maybe gather these opinions and later on form a personal one.

I transformed the latter two formats; one from magazine to blog and the other from online article to facebook page.

Find a transformed format at the following link;
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4981559880007748403#editor/target=post;postID=7029058265567873040;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=0;src=postname

Here I transformed a magazine article into a blog.

And, secondly, I transformed another article that I found online to a facebook page which can be viewed buy following the following link; https://www.facebook.com/Social-Networking-Affecting-Schoolchildren-940842099329410/timeline/