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Questioning the Quality of Internet Information
SESSION 4

• with
• Internet Detective

This workshop islicensed under a Creative
Commons License.
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The Internet reflects the real World- it
contains the good, the bad and the ugly ...

• It is left up to you, the user,
• to decide which is which!

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Quality Warning!

• On the Internet
• anyone can publish anything
• - academic journals sit next to comics
• -presidential speeches, next to idle gossip

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Quality Warning!

• Internet resources are volatile
• - can be here today, gone tomorrow
• - might be useful one day and useless the next

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Quality Warning!

• Resources are not always
• user-friendly
• - bad design can prohibit access
• - usability will vary

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You need to be careful with Internet Information!

• dont degrade your work by using poor quality
  information
• dont get caught citing mis-information
• learn how to filter search results and sort the
  good from the bad

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It can pay to think like a detective

• look for clues
• ask questions
• consider the motives of people publishing on the
  Internet

• trust nobody until you have good cause to do so

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Internet Detective

• a Web-based tutorial
• free to do
• self- paced
• interactive - with quizzes and exercises

• offers tips and hints for evaluating information
  found on the Internet

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Time to hire the Internet Detective!

• http//www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/

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AdditionalResources

• The 21st Century Information Fluency Project
• Or this one http//library.acadiau.ca/help/tutori
  als.html

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