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1 STI Brochure

2 Why bother with accuracy? Consider your potential audience – Doctor’s office – School nurse’s office What would that information mean to another human being? Your brochure could mean life or death!

3 World Wide Web of MisInformation Free Online Pregnancy Test - think you may be pregnant, take the test for guaranteed results Male Pregnancy... video evidence, then it must be true ;) Free Online Pregnancy Testvideo

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5 Acai Berry Diet Same photoshopped photos used on different sites. Depending on which site you visit, her name is Kirsten Hunt, Ann Conrad, Daniella Conrad, Jenna Patterson

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9 CRAAP test Currency Relevancy Accuracy Authority Purpose

10 Sources for Searching Websites – Remember, anyone can put anything on the web – Let’s look at a few examples Questions to ask yourself: – Who is publishing this information? Can’t find the answer? Consider another source – What is the date of publication? Still calling it an STD? Consider another source – What is the intent of the information? Attempting to sell you a drug to cure the STI? Consider another source

11 Searching The magic box… Type keywords and Boolean Operators, NOT COMPLETE SENTENCES – AND NOT OR HIV AND symptoms HIV symptoms NOT syphilis – “ ” HIV “Centers for Disease Control” – - HIV -Africa Use wording from your assignment sheet to help you with keywords Google custom search- only returns results from approved websites. – There are shortcuts to getting good results from a general Google search, but that’s a lesson for another day What are the symptoms of HIV?


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