Who Is Providing You Information? By Kristin Willmore RHSM Librarian.

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

Getting Your Web Site Found. Meta Tags Description Tag This allows you to influence the description of your page with the web crawlers.

Advertisements

WEB PAGE EVALUATION: CAN EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET BE TRUSTED? Next.

Maximise Your Online Presence SEO & Social Media Strategies For Local Business Owners.

Continuing Conversations: Using IPY Resources to Extend and Enhance Classroom Investigations of Climate Change Kathy Gorski Einstein Fellow NSF/Office.

Evaluating Search Results Fundamentals of Research Capital Community College Spring Semester 2013.

Website Evaluation Using the internet for research.

Evaluating Websites Using the 5 W’s. What is the Internet? The internet is a vast source of information from around the WORLD. REMEMBER : You can’t always.

Website Evaluation Using the internet for research.

Using sources in your Advanced Higher Investigation.

Study of Legitimate vs. Invalid Research Web Resources GEMP I PCMS Module 4.

Internet Evaluation. Why should I evaluate? Anybody can create and publish a web page. Information on the web goes through a different publication process.

Reliability & Desirability of Data

Evaluating Web Resources How to judge the authority and accuracy of information found on the web.

WEB EVALUATION QUIZ REVIEW. BEFORE USING A WEBSITE FOR RESEARCH THINK ABOUT:

The Internet How to decide which website will be useful for your project.

EVALUATION OF INTERNET RESOURCES FOR HISTORY Or Being a history detective on the web! By Michelle Ward Okanagan College Library

Jeremy Seppi ENGL / 11 /  This presentation will teach you how to comparison shop using Google Product Search, a utility provided by the.

What is it and where do I begin? RESEARCH. Maple trees and Maple Syrup production in Ontario What is your topic ? What are your sub topics? Trees.

Website Evaluations Good stuff vs Bad stuff History 2d1.

Sources: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly How to evaluate reliable Internet sources.

Here you are at your computer, but you don’t have internet connections. Your ISP becomes your link to the internet. In order to get access you need to.

Be a Web site detective.  make sure they’ve found good Web sites.  Good sites have accurate information, they are up to date.

It’s an Information Jungle Out There!

Moving from Ideas to a finished Research Paper. Brainstorming: Beginning the Process Make a list of any subjects that you find interesting - Anything.

Fall 2008Colorado Department of Education State Library 1 What is the URL? URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is an address that specifies the location of.

Information Resources for ENGINEERING. If the information is “shoddy” or incorrect, nothing you do with it will be correct. Think GIGO : Garbage In =

Evaluating Web Sites C. Schwartz, LMS November 25, 2013.

Working out what you can use in your studies from the WWW… EVALUATING WEBSITES.

Jeff Barnes Northwest High School.  Delicious is a social bookmarking site that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized.

Welcome to the Circus! A step by step process to making your own Google Site for the NEW Northern Potter Website!

Evaluating Websites Do you trust everyone to tell you the truth? Osama bin Laden, Terrorist Was one of FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives Reward:

6 TH GRADE SCIENCE FAIR: RESEARCHING WITH THE INTERNET.

Uncovering the Invisible Web. Back in the day… Students used to research using resources hand-picked by librarians and teachers. These materials were.

Living Online Module Lesson 27 — Evaluating Online Information

What’s Next? Why are we here and what are we going to do? Why are we here and what are we going to do?

5th Grade Internet Research

Developing a Topic and Obtaining Background Information for a Science Exit Project 8th Grade Science – Session 2 of 8.

Vocabulary 3 Internet Vocabulary. internet A system that connects billions of computers around the world.

1 Evaluating Web Sites For Teachers and Students by Nicole Slinger.

Vocabulary 2 Internet Vocabulary. online On the internet.

acab Authority Who is the author/responsible for creating the website? What are their qualifications and associations? Are they: Recognised organisation.

An Introduction to your CMEWeb. What is it? O CMEWeb is an online library catalogue that is accessible anywhere there is internet access… O Desktop computers.

EVALUATING SOURCES HOW DO I DETERMINE A RESOURCE’S CREDIBILITY?

Uploading Web Page  It would be meaningful to share your web page with the rest of the net user.  Thus, we have to upload the web page to the web server.

Vocabulary 2 Internet Vocabulary. online On the internet.

#PRhangout Google+ Public Relations Community Expert Hangout with [your name] [twitter handle] [your title] [your address] [your website] Your Title.

THREE CASE STUDIES THAT SHOW WHY WE MUST TEACH OUR PUPILS HOW TO BE INFORMATION LITERATE!!

The Validity of A Website GLE Make distinctions about the credibility, reliability, consistency, strengths, and limitations of resources, including.

Searching Effectively The Free Internet Magazines: EBSCOhost.

What this activity will show you

For Teachers and Students by Nicole Slinger

If a stranger came up to you on the street and started telling you stuff, would you believe every word? No, of course not. The same is true of websites.

Evaluating Websites Last updated: 12/2015.

From taking notes to creating a bibliography

SWBAT understand how to evaluate sources

using the internet for research

Searching the Internet

What is a website that will give me appropriate and reliable information? REAL test for Websites (Alan November) Read the URL Examine the site’s content.

Finding Reliable Internet Resources

C. Schwartz, LMS December 2016

Anatomy of a Search Search The Index:

Evaluating Websites Last updated: 12/2015.

ENDANGERED ANIMALS A RESEARCH PROJECT

HMMMMMM….. So Many Resources, So Little Time! By: Mrs. Papiano.

Finding Reliable Internet Resources

The Validity of A Website

Searching the Web.

Presentation transcript:

Who Is Providing You Information? By Kristin Willmore RHSM Librarian

Who Is Providing You Information? Objective: Who is providing us information on the Internet? AND Why is it important that we find out?

/ Internet today: / Overwhelming / Hard to find stuff / Unorganized / TMI (too much information)! / Internet today: / Overwhelming / Hard to find stuff / Unorganized / TMI (too much information)!

Do you really know who is providing you information? / How often do we check to see who is providing information? / Do you just click on the first few links? / Can we trust those sources? / How often do we check to see who is providing information? / Do you just click on the first few links? / Can we trust those sources?

Example / Martin Luther King.org / Search in Google / In top 5 / Select / Martin Luther King.org / Search in Google / In top 5 / Select

Example / Martin Luther King web site / It’s a dot org (.org) / Top of the search list / Has a good description Can we trust it’s a reliable website? / Martin Luther King web site / It’s a dot org (.org) / Top of the search list / Has a good description Can we trust it’s a reliable website?

Investigate further / Go to Easy Who Is to find out / / Type in the URL / Scroll to registration information / Notice Storm Front Organization / Provides organization, address, phone number and address / Go to Easy Who Is to find out / / Type in the URL / Scroll to registration information / Notice Storm Front Organization / Provides organization, address, phone number and address

Investigate further / Who is Storm Front Organization? / Google it! / Zog Storm Front Org. is a white nationalist organization / Can we trust them for MLK information? / Who is Storm Front Organization? / Google it! / Zog Storm Front Org. is a white nationalist organization / Can we trust them for MLK information?

/ Storm Front = hate group / Why would Storm Front host a MLK website? / Accurate information? / Bias in information? / Storm Front = hate group / Why would Storm Front host a MLK website? / Accurate information? / Bias in information?

/ Many other inaccurate websites / e.g., 1/4 of health information / It’s important to evaluate the source / Can’t trust everything on Internet / Many other inaccurate websites / e.g., 1/4 of health information / It’s important to evaluate the source / Can’t trust everything on Internet

What are some things you can do to evaluate a source? / Go to the help screen on a search engine / Easy Who Is.com / Google your source / Go to the help screen on a search engine / Easy Who Is.com / Google your source

Test Time!!!

Why is it important to investigate who our source of information is?

Would you use this site for popular young adult book reviews? ms ms Would you use this site for popular young adult book reviews? ms ms

Would you use this site for science fair project ideas? Would you use this site for science fair project ideas?

Would you trust this site for a recommendation on a comfortable mattress? Would you trust this site for a recommendation on a comfortable mattress?

Thank you!