Small Pieces, Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web Exploration

Based on the online book and website by David Weinberger

Directions: Read the questions for the chapter. Read the chapter. Answer the questions.

1. Write three ways you use the web.

2. What connects the web?

What is one challenge about these connections?

How do you create a neighborhood on the web?

Which difference between the Web and the real world was a new idea to you?

Do you agree with the author? Explain.

3. The Web allows people to connect in new ways. Name them.

Do you use the old ways of communicating?

"It's much easier to let yourself sound one way instead of another on the Web than in the real world
because no one knows who you are on the Web." Do you agree with this statement?

4. When are we humans at our best? READ his thoughts. WRITE your own opinion.

Give an example of someone you have met on the web you would not know otherwise.

Learn more:

About the Internet Hunt | Check out the Living Internet site | Pew Internet & American Life Project | Email Internet Hunt

The Revoluntionaries | Online Collaborations & Social Networking | Using Online Collaboration and Social Networking to do work

Watch What is Digital? at Future Channels

Cyberinfrastructure - examines the convergence of three realities -- the spread of
the Internet, the shrinkage of computers, and the accumulation of databases

"The self we sometimes feel stuck with in the real world gets unstuck on the Web." David Weinberger

Internet Hunts / Nature / Pennsylvania Project / Computers / Puzzles & Projects / Site map / Home

1/2007 Cynthia J. O'Hora this worksheet is released to public domain. The book and the web site for the book belong to the author.

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Aligned to the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Reading Writing Listening, Science and Technology