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Internet Savvy

Internet Savvy. Don’t Bet on It!. By Hazel Peterson, Librarian Molina High School, Dallas ISD. What’s In a URL?. www.dallasisd.org/athletics To get information from the URL, ask these three questions: What is the domain name? What is the extension? Is this a personal page?. Domain Name.

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Internet Savvy

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  1. Internet Savvy Don’t Bet on It! By Hazel Peterson, Librarian Molina High School, DallasISD

  2. What’s In a URL? www.dallasisd.org/athletics To get information from the URL, ask these three questions: • What is the domain name? • What is the extension? • Is this a personal page?

  3. Domain Name • www. dallasisd.org /athletics • The domain name follows the www and comes before the first slash ( / ). • It tells you who sponsors the page. You can sometimes tell about the reliability of the information from the name of the sponsor.

  4. Extensions • May provide more reliable information than others, but there are no guarantees • More reliable are .edu, .gov, .k12. • Watch out for .com, .org, .net. Keep in mind that while some of these sites may provide good information, they are able to be purchased by anyone and may be special-interest sites or commercial sites. • http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html • What is this .com’s purpose?

  5. Types of Extensions • www.dallasisd.org/athletics • .edu       Educational organization (most US universities).k12       US school site (not all US schools use this).ac         Academic institution (outside of US).sch        School site (schools outside of the US use this).com     Company (usually .co in the UK).org        Any organization.gov       Government agency.net        Network.mil        Military institutions

  6. More about Extensions • Can include a country or state code • .uk – United Kingdom • .us – United States • Full List: • http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/text/web_country_codes.html

  7. What a difference an extension makes? www.moises.molina.net

  8. What a difference an extension makes? www.moises.molina.com

  9. Personal Web Page • Is a website created by an individual • May or may not be reliable, often biased • Usually has a personal name following a tilde (~) or a percent sign (%) • http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html

  10. Who is the Publisher? • You can often find the owner or publisher of a website by using the Whois? Database. • http://www.martinlutherking.org • WARNING!! • (This site may contain offensive information.)

  11. martinlutherking.org • Looks innocent • Has a .org extension • Found near the top of results when researching Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Includes Dr. King’s name right in URL

  12. How to find the publisher • www.easywhois.com

  13. And the publisher is….. • Registrant ID:Registrant Name:Registrant Organization:StormfrontRegistrant Street1:Registrant Street2: Registrant Street3: Registrant City:West Palm Beach Registrant State/Province:FLRegistrant Postal Code:33405 Registrant Country:USRegistrant Phone:+

  14. Google the publisher As you read the material on the site, you will find very negative and misleading information about Dr. King. It is published by a White Pride organization called Stormfront. In fact because it is a hate site, it will be blocked by many Internet filters.

  15. What is the History of the Site? • When looking at sites, you may want to see what it looked like earlier in its lifetime. Using the Wayback Machine, you can see a site throughout its lifetime. • http://www.archive.org

  16. History of martinlutherking.org • Note the changes. • Do you see anything • that warns you of • the content of the • site? • Would you be likely • to open this site to • use the information • for research? • How does this site • compare to the • newer one?

  17. What external links can you find? • External links: • Come from other sites linked to the one you are viewing • Can be made by anyone else in the world • Invisible • Linked to a website from an external source

  18. 3 Questions to Validate External Links • What types of sites are linked to this website? • What is the purpose of the link? Why have these groups or individuals chosen to link to this site? • What do other sites (those linked to this one) say about the information on the site?

  19. How to Locate Links • Go to www.google.com • In the search box, type link: and then add the URL of the site you would like to research. Be sure to add http:// to the URL. • link:http://www.dallasisd.org • How many external links are there? • What types are there?

  20. Truncating when searching • If searching for a URL and you receive no results, truncate the URL. Truncating means removing one folder at a time, moving from the last one. A folder is the information in the URL between slashes. • http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html • Type in the URL, then truncate it back to see how the site changes.

  21. Is it important to evaluate a site? • Verifies the information • Shows the validity of its use in your research project • Keeps you away from the 98% garbage-level information found on the Web • Keeps you from using bogus information

  22. Remember: • Databases contain verified information on academic topics. Use a database first. • If you have to search the web, search wisely using the tips you have been given to evaluate the site.

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