Determining

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• Determining
• Legitimate Web Sites
• www.defenselink.mil
• usmilitary.about.com

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Is it someones personal page?

• Does the URL use words like
• Personal
• J Smith (or a persons name)
• GeoCities, AOL, or other commercial servers.
• What about its domain name?

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Legitimate Web Sites use endings like
owl.english.purdue.edu/
Domain Names
www.sikids.com/
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Domain name Type
k12.ia.us k-12 school in IA .gov
government .edu college, university
.org non-profit organization.mil
military OR
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Use endings like State / Country

• .ca California
• .k12.ca.us OR
• .ca Canada
• www.city.timmins.on.ca
• .au Australia
• .de Deutschland

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Less dependable sites (anyone
can write these) use domain endings like.htm
or .html HyperText Markup Language .net
Internet service Provider .com
Commerical site
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Are these dependable sites?www.fuelfacts.org/hea
dlines008.htmwww.niddk.nih.gov/www.diabetes.or
g.uk/home.htmwww.city.timmins.on.ca/Municipal.pd
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• How could you tell which sites were dependable?
• Look at the domain names.
• Look at the site and then
• Evaluate the content.

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• What do these endings tell you?
• www.fuelfacts.org/headlines008.htm
• www.niddk.nih.gov/
• www.diabetes.org.uk/home.htm
• www.city.timmins.on.ca/Municipal.pdf

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• When you look at the sites, remember to always
  evaluatefor
• accuracy,
• currency, and
• appropriateness.

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Who published the pages?

• Is the publisher a trusted source?
• The publisher is listed between the www and the
  domain name.
• .www.nytimes.com the New York Times
• www.goarmy.com U. S. Army
• http//www.alberteinstein.info a university site

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• For more examples, go to
• http//www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/In
  ternet/Evaluate.html