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Free-Form Browsing As we search the internet, our preconceptions about what is interesting, valuable, relevant, and "good" steer us from page to page, sometimes narrowing our attention and limiting what we see. In the Free-Form Browsing component of eQuest, you will explore cyberspace in a more random, wandering sort of way. Hopefully this free-form browsing will help you discover new areas of cyberspace that you would not have seen otherwise. What you find may not seem directly related to the issue for your project, but when you spend some time thinking about it you may realize that you've learned something about yourself that leads to insights into your project. Try these three techniques at least once, spending at leas 20 minutes with each:
1. Wander on Your Own - Start anywhere on the internet you like and then jump from link to link in a "free association" style, allowing your movement to be more spontaneous, less influenced by conscious intention and evaluation. Just wander around the internet looking for anything that seems interesting to you. Sometimes even "speed click"without thinking at all.
2. Random Link Generators - Wander around cyberspace as you did in #1, but use these random link generators to help you. They will throw you randomly onto different pages on the internet. Once they toss you onto a page somewhere, you can continue wandering around on your own from that page, or return to the generator whenever you want.uroulette3. Vision Quest - Start off with an open-ended question about yourself and your life, one that is important to you, perhaps one related to the issue that you are exploring in eQuest. With that question in mind, use either method 1 or method 2 to start wandering around cyberspace. Keep your question in the back of your mind. Continue wandering until you get a "sign" or perhaps a series of signs that in some way gives you an answer or an insight into your question. You'll know the sign when you see it. If this vision quest method sounds silly, then just think of it as a way to allow your subconscious mind to help you discover an insight into your question.
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- What was it like doing using these free-form browsing techniques?
- Which of these three methods worked best for you? How come?
- What places that you visited stand out in your mind? Why do you think that is?
- Did you learn anything about yourself, your interests, your personality?
- What sign did you receive? What did you learn from it about yourself?
- How might the things you learned about yourself from this free-form browsing be related to the issue you are exploring in eQuest?