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This page is designed to help WCMS students to explore the idea of web literacy - how we know how to find information, where to find it and if it's for real... on the web.

This web quest is designed to give you some freedom and flexibility in your search for understanding. We're going to "examine the elephant" so to speak. Imagine what would happen if we actually had an elephant in the classroom - lots of stuff would probably get squished, some people would be afraid, some people would think it's cool, but the place would probably end up smelling like a barnyard. Thankfully, there isn't a real elephant in the room, but imagine what would happen if there were a tame and friendly elephant in the room, and five of you were blindfolded and we asked you to describe for us this "unknown object". Depending on which part of the elephant you were closest to, you would describe very different experiences when you touched that elephant. Some of you would describe the elephant as hard and smooth (tusks), some of you would describe the elephant's skin as hard an tough. Others might describe the trunk as something round a wrinkled, while others might describe the tail as feeling like a brush. The internet is something like this elephant, with different experiences for each of us, depending on what we're looking for. Our focus for the next few weeks will be on looking at many different parts of the internet and working to understand ways to know more about what we see when we look.