Category: Bookmark Assignments

For your fourth social bookmarking assignment, find and bookmark a credible resource on military cryptography.  This can’t be a resource you used for your expository paper assignment–you’ll need to work a little harder than that. But it can be a resource on one of the topics mentioned in this week’s chapter of The Code Book.  Tag your bookmark with “Military,” along with at least one other meaningful tag.

Your bookmark is due by 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 1st. If you have any questions about using Diigo or determining if a source is credible, don’t hesitate to ask.

Your third bookmarking assignment will help prepare you for Tuesday’s in-class discussion of writing for blogs. Below you’ll find a list of some interesting blogs about math, science, and the history of math and science. Look through several of the blogs listed and select one post from one blog that you feel is particularly well written. Bookmark that post in Diigo, using the tag “BlogPosts” along with at least one other meaningful tag. Also, leave a comment on your bookmark in which you explain why you thought the post was well written.

• Wonders & Marvels
• The Atlantic – Technology
• BBC – Future
• Cocktail Party Physics
• The Curious Wavefunction
• Bad Astronomy
• Krulwich Wonders
• The H Word
• Notes & Theories
• Steven Strogatz
• Terence Tao
• The Loom
• Not Exactly Rocket Science
• Galileo’s Pendulum

Your bookmark and comment are due by 8 a.m. on Tuesday, October 16th.

Image: “Interesting Pin,” by me, Flickr (CC)

For your second social bookmarking assignment, find and bookmark an example of cryptography in the news.  Your bookmark should be a news story dated within the last two years. Tag your bookmark with “InTheNews,” along with at least one other meaningful tag.

Your bookmark is due by 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 25th. If you have any questions about using Diigo or determining if a source is credible, don’t hesitate to ask.

For your first social bookmarking assignment, find and bookmark a credible source that provides additional information on some topic introduced in Singh Chapter 1. Tag your bookmark with “Chapter1,” along with at least one other meaningful tag.

Your bookmark is due by 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 6th. If you have any questions about using Diigo or determining if a source is credible, don’t hesitate to ask.