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How do Cochlear Implants effect the literacy of children?

When looking at my presentation and the requirments I think that my presentation appropriately answers who, what, when, where, how, and why in relation to the technology I selected. It describes that the software is for the deaf and hard of hearing population, it tells how you use it, what it can do with it, where you can use it (in the classroom, work, and everyday life), and the reason why is that it helps improve communication and literacy.
My presentation also describes the technology I selected including the cost (explaining the different packages), features (speech files, ect.), and it describes the capablilities of the technology such as translating the information in 3 different ways. My presentation includes information from my articles because it says that seeing and reading information in sign and written language helps them comprehend the information. The presentation also could be used to help promote and tell others what the technology is for and how it is used. The presentation was also to my ability presented in a professional manner and includes appropriate citations at the end of the presentation. As far as I know it is also produced without errors. Overall I think that I covered all of the requirements for the presentation.
The presentation is professionally produced, error free, and includes appropriate citations.

10/22/08
Name of site: Better Dog Food.competchick@betterdogfood.com). It also said that she had experience in her past life of creating a dog breeder magazine. When looking at the CEO and Founder, Carl Malamud worked for the telephone company when he got started and he worked under “the legendary” Arlington Hewes, who I have never heard of. He is an international speaker, and he has a dog named Bob.

URL: http://www.betterdogfood.com/

Accuracy:

• When looking at the accuracy of this site you can see that this cite does not cite any other sources. It also tells you a little bit about the management team that included a creator, CEO, and the pet of the site. It says that woman, the creator, has a little experience in her “past life” with digitizing and designing a dog breeder magazine, the CEO/ Founder worked for a telephone company before, and the other is a made up dog named spot.
• It is defiantly not possible to determine the legitimacy of the woman’s past life, and when you click on the link for the guys telephone company he worked at it takes you to the telephone companies remote printing service. This is defiantly not legitimate either.
• The background of this author, or creator that I can find does not lead him to having any knowledge of the subject whatsoever.
• This site is not research based.

Authority:

• I did not recognize any names on the management team.
• The only information that was given about he management team was that Rebecca Hargrave was the President and Chief Creative Officer of Best Dog Food.com. It also gave and email to reach her that was not very professional (
• I have never seen this site referenced anywhere.

Objectivity:

• When looking at the title and reading the cite it looks like they are trying to sell you dog food for virtual pets, but the only things that I found on sale were items for real dogs that were from different companies that I have heard of before. I never saw anything about the virtual dog food.
• The purpose of the this site was to allow you to make a virtual pet, and sell you dog food to go along with it. It also had link to blogs for your dogs, but you could not make a dog, use the blog, or buy the dog food because either the link didn’t work or their was no place to do it. The blog actually said at the top that it was inactive.
• I do not trust and would not trust the author of this site because they have no background experience and their website doesn’t even work.

Currency:

• The date was clearly displayed at the bottom of the page and it said 2000.
• The date referred to the copyright of the page.
• Their were no resources to determine if they were current.
• This page defiantly needs updates, and fixed but I do not think that it requires these regularly.
• The links on this page were not good at all. The ones on the side of the page of ads for other dog related sites were good, but as far as the actual website they were not. Most of the ones I clicked on didn’t even send you to a page you just got a message that said an error had occurred, the site was unavailable, or the account was no longer active when looking at the blog.

Coverage:

• I didn’t see any topics discussed in depth they were all very shallow.
• The links on the page were suppose to be comprehensive to help you understand more about what you clicked on. When it had the links listed it only gave you a short blurb about the topic, but when you actually clicked on most of the links they didn’t work.
• When looking at the relevance of the links they seemed to go along with the site, but they could have had a few more like the virtual dog food they talked about for you.
• The information in this site I do not think is valuable at all. There is really nothing to do on this site, because almost every link is dead.