It is once again time for the virtual scavenger hunt in Living and Working in a Virtual World. The students will be in teams of three and have laptops with wireless connections to work with.
When I first started doing this, the teams would be lucky to find half the items. With search engines and search techniques being much improved, it is now a race to see which team finishes first.
I have tried to add a couple of tougher queries that require special search engines or specific sites to succeed.
One new item, which is in my opinion a bit spooky is this one.
"What is the maiden name of my youngest sister?"
That is the only information given. Substitute a question similar to this with the name of one of your family members and think about how easy or hard it might be to find online. I will guess that half the teams get this one right, even though there are no official public documents out there which give the answer away.
How do internet systems, the world wide web, online social networks, databases and client server technologies serve relationships and the arts? What are the consequences of putting so much data about ourselves onto the web, and how can we manage the impression and information that is given out?
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Wouldn't it be Fry?
SShhhhh!! That is supposed to be a trick question. One team has answered it.
Even the trickiest of trick questions will not trick out tricked out team.
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