1. Understanding the Importance of Internet/Web-Based Learning

2. How to read a “URL” (Uniform Resource Locators)
is the protocol that shows it is an internet address. Most, but not all contain www, which stands for world wide web.
Nasa is the domain name, the name of the computer or server to which you connect.
.gov is the domain abbreviation or domain designator (tells what kind of group owns the server
/home is the path which leads to a specific webpage

3. Common Domain Abbreviations
.org=organization
.gov=government agency
.com=business
.net=network
.k12._.us=public schools
.mil=military agency
.edu=university

4. Safe Search Engines Google KidRex All the Web Ask Jeeves Yahoo
netTrekker
Fact Monster
Pics 4 Learning
Bing
Dogpile

5. How to Evaluate a Website For Validity and Reliability?

6. 5 W’s of Website Evaluation
WHO
Wrote the pages and are they an expert in the field?
WHAT
Does the author state is the purpose of the site?
WHEN
Was the site created, updated, last worked on?
WHERE
Does the information come from?
WHY
Is the information useful?

7. Where do we Begin? Go to the following website
Then spend the next minutes going over the tutorial. This will serve as the basis for our next group activity

8. Evaluating Website Credibility
1.Each group of people will receive websites. 2.As a group use the checklist for website credibility. 3.Be able to justify your assessment

9. What Constitutes Plagiarism?
According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to “Plagiarize” means:
To steal or pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own.
To use (another’s production) without crediting the source
To commit literary theft
To present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.

10. Plagiarism You Quote it, You Note It!

11. Where do we Begin? Go to the following website
Then spend the next minutes going over the tutorial. This will serve as the basis for our next group activity