Internet Safety Skills

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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

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Check 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

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Look and Feel

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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