Is it Accurate? Is it relevant? Is it Appropriate? Reading the Web Is it Accurate? Is it relevant? Is it Appropriate?

Learning Goal I can compare digital resources for accuracy, relevancy, and appropriateness.

Reading A Book! How do we know what is inside of a book before reading the actual book itself?

How can we tell what is inside of a website without clicking the website open, and making the website a part of our digital footprint?

Open Mozilla Firefox 2. Search – pbskids.org 3. Look for a review of pbskid.org on first page

A BIG Clue is the Domain Register .org .com .gov ..edu Website address video http://viewpure.com/XZ7b2BsmFbI?start=0&end=0

.biz .com .net Anybody Businesses No Rules

.gov Must be government Closely monitored

Education Only School, Colleges, Universities

http://www.girlscouts.org/ .org http://www.redcross.org/ Organizations Non-profit (businesses that help people and make the world better) Profit (business that make money) It is considered to be mostly trusted and reliable www.humanesociety.org

Who Wrote the Web Page? How do we know Where can we look?

Let’s look at a website Together! http://www.kidsplanet.org/