NJN Week 2- A re-Sourceful Breakdown

Saving NJN-Week 2
Hello Fellow Internetworkers,

How is everyone? Hope all is well, Its Sergio blogging in on October 4, 2010. Pleased to be here and currently working on sources for the New Jersey InterNetwork Solution. It seems there’s lots of information, if only it dealt with NJN.
This week has been quite interesting. After we left last class on the 28th, it seemed as if we had more of a grasp with what we wanted to do with the project. Though we left off on a positive note, it seems as if our project is going to be much harder than expected. We believe the idea of creating a social network where we can receive the news, educate ourselves, our children and maintain communication between those that share interests of New Jersey is the reason for saving NJN and part of the solution. As we established what we were willing to work with and what routes we wanted to take, we were able to narrow down what information we want to research. We established a plan and divided it evenly among each other.

Plan: Read Chapter 5 carefully
Annotated Bibliography
-10 sources: 5-Scholarly Sources, 5-Popular Sources
-150-word description

We left with the plan in action, and we knew that each of us had to find 1 scholarly source and 1 popular source. We figured that since we are in New Jersey and the issue is taking place in New Jersey that there would be a plethora of information. Communications through Twitter and Facebook has revealed to each member that the information is quite scarce and that each of us is having a difficult time finding sources. Facebook is our main gateway of conversation. We all work independently for the majority of the week, skimming through info and sharing links and articles through the thread on Facebook. The weekends seem to be the most active, where most of the information-collecting is done and Monday evenings, we all revise and submit our information into a new thread.
I feel like a lot of us seem to wait last minute but the added pressure helps us find useful articles. With the help of social networks we can instantly communicate with each other and almost immediately post our works online and share what we find. Though the info is intangible, we can compare the info just as well as if we had a hard copy and we can see what more we have to contribute or how we can connect all the ideas from the different authors. I think facebook serves as more than a social network, and can actually be used for beneficial purposes. Using it as way to unite thoughts the social network facet clearly is an underestimated factor.