EVALUATING

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EVALUATING SOURCES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
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TRUE OR FALSE? A photo taken right before the
9-11 disaster?
www.urbanlegends.about.com/library/blphoto-wtc-gl.
htm
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1- FIRST STEP IN EVALUATING SOURCES ON
THE WEB
URL uniform resource locator or address
www.urbanlegends.about.com world wide web
sponsor of site domain
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DOMAIN NAMES what do they tell you?
.edu education .gov
government .org not-for-profit
organization .net network .com
commercial
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2- SECOND STEP IN EVALUATING SOURCES ON
THE WEB
AUTHORITY identify sponsoring organization or auth
or
www.martinlutherking.org/
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3- THIRD STEP IN EVALUATING SOURCES ON
THE WEB
CONTENT critically analyze what you read and
see for accuracy and reliability
http/www.rythospital.com/
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4- FOURTH STEP IN EVALUATING SOURCES ON
THE WEB
CURRENCY date of creation or last-updated
date and do the links work?
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REVIEW
STEPS IN WEB EVALUATION
1- URL identification
2- authority
3- content
4- currency
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USING
BETTER
Google Scholar for .edu sites
Google UncleSam For .gov sites
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Student Resource Center and Grolier DATABASES
www.hflcsd.org