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EVALUATING SOURCES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

TRUE OR FALSE? A photo taken right before the 9-11 disaster?

#1- FIRST STEP IN EVALUATING SOURCES ON THE WEB URL uniform resource locator or address world wide web sponsor of site domain

DOMAIN NAMES: what do they tell you?.edu education.gov government.org not-for-profit organization.net network.com commercial

#2- SECOND STEP IN EVALUATING SOURCES ON THE WEB AUTHORITY identify sponsoring organization or author

#3- THIRD STEP IN EVALUATING SOURCES ON THE WEB CONTENT critically analyze what you read and see for accuracy and reliability

#4- FOURTH STEP IN EVALUATING SOURCES ON THE WEB CURRENCY date of creation or last-updated date and do the links work?

REVIEW STEPS IN WEB EVALUATION: #1- URL identification #2- authority #3- content #4- currency

USINGBETTER Google Scholar for.edu sites Google UncleSam For.gov sites

Student Resource Center and Grolier DATABASES