Information You Can Trust

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Information You Can Trust

• Where to go when you need to know

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When you have a question, where do you go?

• Depends on what you want to know
• If you think theres a snow day
• If you want to learn a sport
• If you need to know which planet is closest to
  the sun

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Why do you trust those sources?

• Lets discuss!

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Why you trust these sources

• Theyve given you good information before.
• You know theyre the experts in that area.
• A friend has gotten good information from them.
• An authority has told you you can trust them.

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What happens if you trust the wrong source?

• Lets discuss!

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If you trust the wrong source

• You could end up looking silly.
• You could get hurt.
• You could not find what you need.

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Lets Go Online!

• Which Web sites can you trust?

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All web sites active as of 7/24/03.
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Five types of Web sites

• .com Commercial or personal sites. Sometimes
  reliable, sometimes not.
• .net Similar to .com usually commercial.

• .edu Colleges or universities. Usually
  reliable.
• .org Organizations. More reliable than .com.
• .gov Government site.

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.com/.net examples

• Trustworthy
• Sites created by the Nations themselves
• http//www.senecaindians.com/
• http//www.oneida-nation.net/
• Less trustworthy
• A site created by an individual with no known
  authority
• http//www.crystalinks.com/iroquois.html

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.edu examples(Trustworthy in general)

• A site created by a class with teachers
  supervision
• http//alpha.lsb.syr.edu/projects/we_are/4th/Iroqu
  ois.html
• A site created/hosted by a university
• http//www.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/iroqclo
  th.htm

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.org examples(Trustworthy in general)

• A site created by a museum or other trusted
  organization
• http//www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/north
  -south-east-west/iroquois/index.html
• http//iroquoismuseum.org

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.gov examples (Trustworthy in general)

• http//www.doiu.nbc.gov/orientation/bia2.cfm
• http//www.loc.gov/bicentennial/propage/NY/ny-23_h
  _boehlert4.html

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What have we learned?

• Lets discuss!

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We have learned that we

• Cant trust all sources of information
• Need to know something about the person or group
  the information is coming from

• Cant trust all Web sites
• Need to look at sources and Web sites carefully
  to decide if they have good information