internet safety
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Internet Safety Skills
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Steps for Web Evaluation
Adapted from i-Safe America materials (http://www.isafe.org)
URL
Look and Feel
Content
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Check URL
URL
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Check Site Look and Feel
•Does it look professional?•Is it well organized?•How easy to use is the site?•Are there advertisements?•How long does it take to load?•Is author information available?•Can you tell when it was last updated?
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Check Content using 5 W’s
Adapted from i-Safe America materials (http://www.isafe.org)And Kathleen Schrock (2002) The ABCs of WebSite Evaluation http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/pdf/weval_02.pdf
URL
Look and Feel
Content
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•Who wrote the pages and are they an expert in the field? (Authority?)•What does the author say the purpose of the site is? (Bias? Written for what audience?)•Where does the information come from? (Citations?)•When was it created or last updated? (Dates?)•Why is the information useful for my purposes?
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Triangulation
Triangulation is also a good strategy for increasing the likelihood that the content is credible.
Triangulation means verifying the information using multiple sources rather than just one source.
Credible Information
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Website Evaluation
Practice Time
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http://www.stanford.edu/~jdowens/politics.html
We can infer all of the following from this URL except…1. It is for educational
purposes.
2. It is a personal website.
3. It is a political website.
4. It is a government site.
5. It is not a secure site.
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https://gradebook.alpinedistrict.k12.ut.us/login
We can infer all of the following from this URL except…
1. It is a secure site.
2. It is a personal website.
3. It is a school district site.
4. It is for a school district in Utah.
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http://www.ed.gov/teachers/jobs.php
We can infer all of the following from this URL except…
1. It is a government site.
2. It is for a district in Utah.
3. It is for educational purposes.
4. It is not a secure site.
5. It is a dynamic page.
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Go to http://www.dhmo.org/
Evaluate this website based on WHO.
1. Confident
2. Somewhat Confident
3. Not Very Confident
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Go to
http://www.dhmo.org/ Evaluate this website based on WHAT.
1. Confident
2. Somewhat Confident
3. Not Very Confident
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Go to http://www.dhmo.org/ Evaluate this
website based on WHERE.
1. Confident
2. Somewhat Confident
3. Not Confident
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Go to http://www.dhmo.org/
Evaluate this website based on WHEN.
1. Confident
2. Somewhat Confident
3. Not Confident
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Go to http://www.dhmo.org/
Evaluate this website based on WHY.
1. Confident
2. Somewhat Confident
3. Not Very Confident
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Consequences of Website Evaluation
H2O hoax believed by California City Officials
• http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4534017/
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Go to http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Evaluate this website based on WHO.
1. Confident
2. Somewhat Confident
3. Not Very Confident
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Go to http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Evaluate this website based on WHAT.
1. Confident
2. Somewhat Confident
3. Not Very Confident
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Go to http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Evaluate this website based on WHERE.
1. Confident
2. Somewhat Confident
3. Not Very Confident
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Go to http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Evaluate this website based on WHEN.
1. Confident
2. Somewhat Confident
3. Not Very Confident
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Go to http://zapatopi.net/afdb/Evaluate this
website based on WHY.
1. Confident
2. Somewhat Confident
3. Not Very Confident
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http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.htmlAfter looking at the website above, which of the 5 W’s do you think is the biggest red flag
regarding the website’s credibility?
1. Who
2. What
3. Where
4. When
5. Why
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http://www.beefnutrition.org/ After looking at the website above, which of the 5
W’s do you think is the biggest red flag regarding the website’s credibility?
1. Who
2. What
3. Where
4. When
5. Why