Understanding the Internet and Article Validation

1. How to find and validate your annotated bibliography article. Understanding the Internet and Article Validation NUR 1024 Critical Thinking for Nurses

2. OBJECTIVES • The student will be able to: • Describe the internet • Define IP Address • Identify domain names • Read a URL and identify its parts • Define truncating and be able to truncate a URL • Identify search engines • Discuss ranking of search engine results

3. OBJECTIVES cont’d • Demonstrate how to validate information on the Web using the READ process • Describe the value of links in validating information.

4. Internet Basics

5. Internet Users

6. Information on the Web

7. URL (uniform resource location)

8. IP, WEB and URL address

9. Practice • http://www.exploratorium.edu/frogs/index.html • Is the above URL found on the web or somewhere else? • What is the domain? • What is directory? • What is the file?

10. Validating Information & Sites • Truncating a URL • http://www.sandiegozoo.org/teachers/classroom_activities.html • http://www.sandiegozoo.org/teachers/ • http://www.sandiegozoo.org/ • Move from right to left to next ‘/’

11. Original web site http://www.sandiegozoo.org/teachers/classroom_activities.html

12. Original Website cont’d

13. First truncation http://www.sandiegozoo.org/teachers/

14. Final truncation http://www.sandiegozoo.org/

15. R.E.A.L. • Read the URL (domains, extensions, clues) • Do you recognize the domain name? • What is the extension in the domain name? • Are you on a personal page • http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html /\ The ~is called a tilde

16. Domains, Extensions etc. Domains: • http://palmbeachstate.edu/nursing.htmx • http://www.seaworld.com/activities Extensions: • .edu • .gov • .mil • .com • .org • .net Personal vs professional • Tilde ~ • A name (such as pleasant) • Percent sign (%) • A word such as: users, people, or members

17. R.E.A.L. • Examine the content: • Is the information on the Web site useful for your topic? • Are additional resources and links provided? Do the links work? • Is the site current? Do you know when it was last updated? • Do you think the information is accurate? • Does the information support information you have found elsewhere?

18. R.E.A.L. • Ask about the author and owner • Is the author’s name provided? • Is there a contact person or an address provided? • Is there biographical information provided about the author? • Does the author seem knowledgeable? Is he or she an expert in the field? • What kinds of results do you see when you do a search on the author’s name? Do they support the author’s education and studies regarding the topic?

19. R.E.A.L. • Links • Look at the links • Forward links – name given to a link from your Web site to a page on someone else’s Web site. • Backward link – name given to a link from someone else’s Web site to a page on your Web site. Hint: To find a forward link, move your cursor over a piece of linked test or graphic. The arrow turns into a hand and a URL appears in the status bar at the lower left of your browser.

20. Search Engines • NoodleTools - • http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html • Google Scholar – • http://www.scholar.google.com/ • Google – • http://www.google.com/ • Ask.com – • http://www.ask.com/

21. Resource • November, A. (2008). Web Literacy for Educators. Thousand Oaks, CA.: CorinPress. 109 pgs.

22. Internet = WEB