1. Types of Website Domains

2. The Start of the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a collection of text pages, digital images, music files, video, and animation that you access using the Internet.

3. Why is it important to verify the content that you find on the web?
Discussion
Why is it important to verify the content that you find on the web?
Anyone can post content to a Web site
Avoid false and outdated information
Use content from a trustworthy website
Make sure the content is current
Start this lesson with a discussion before revealing the answers.

4. Reviewing Websites A good Website has information you can trust.
Decide if the site is a reliable source of information.

5. Authority Considerations:
Contact information
Domain name (.edu, and .gov)
Anyone can make a Website and claim to be an expert on a subject. Look for evidence that the website is trustworthy.

6. Bias Considerations: Personal opinions Advertisements
Bias is presenting information to promote a specific point of view without including alternate views. On a Web site, distorted data, missing or incomplete information, emotional arguments, and personal attacks are examples of bias.

7. What is a URL?
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a unique address so that any computer can locate information stored on any Web server.
Think of URLs as street addresses for the Internet.

8. The extension classifies the type of web site.
Domain Extensions
The domain extension is an easy way to classify and identify who controls the web resource.
.net
.edu
.com
Education
(College websites)
Computer Network
Commercial
(Amazon, eBay)
.org
.gov
Have students guess the answers before revealing.
.mil
Government Agency
(house.gov)
Nonprofit
Organization
Military
The extension classifies the type of web site.
For example, all U.S. government web sites all have the extension .gov.

9. Domain Extensions for Countries

10. Citing Sources Copy and paste the URL Example:
I got this information from:

11. Plagiarism Checker
Locates the words on other websites.

12. Finds the definition of words.
Online
Dictionary
Finds the definition of words.

13. Finds the synonyms and antonyms
Online Thesaurus
Finds the synonyms and antonyms
of words.