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Website Evaluation. Prior Knowledge. Use previous knowledge to evaluate a website A quick overview may provide clues Inreach.com Does it make sense? Trust your judgment. Checking credentials…. Whether site looks or sounds good, always check credentials (“About Us” “About”, etc.)
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Prior Knowledge • Use previous knowledge to evaluate a website • A quick overview may provide clues • Inreach.com • Does it make sense? • Trust your judgment.
Checking credentials…. • Whether site looks or sounds good, always check credentials (“About Us” “About”, etc.) • May have to Google the author • Are they qualified to write about the topic? • ufos-aliens.co.uk vs. • badastronomy.com
Clues in the URL…. • Some domain names are usually trustworthy • .gov • www.whitehouse.gov • www.libraryofcongress.gov • www.nih.gov • Sometimes clues are hidden in domain names • tilde (~) indicates a personal page • check this information with more reliable source
Clues in the URL cont.: • Check out this site: • http://umich.edu/~engtt516/index2.html • Now check out this one • http://umich.edu/~engtt516/masterforgers.html • **Always a good idea to check info. on a site with other reliable sources like encyclopedias
Become a detective…. • Site could: • Look professional • Sound reliable • Link to good organizations • **and still be misleading…. • www.dhmo.org
dhmo cont.: • Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is only water • made to sound scary and dangerous by: • how it was written • omitting of facts • easy to circulate misinformation or urban legends on the Internet because nooversight
Who owns the site? • Use http://www.register.com/whois.rcmx • Can identify the owner of the site and research them on Google • www.martinlutherking.org • “Stormfront” is listed as owner of this site • Google search indicates that “Stormfront” is a hate group • Will this information be unbiased?
Works Cited • "Dihydrogen Minoxide." Dhmo.org. Tom Way, 15 Nov. 2012. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://www.dhmo.org/>. • "Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax." Bad Astronomy. Phil Plait, 11 June 2001. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html>. • "http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html." Cosmic Conspiracies. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicapollo.html>. • "Life and Times." Jacopo de Poggibonsi. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://www.umich.edu/~engtt516/lifetimes.html>. • "Martin Luther King, Jr." Martin Luther King, Jr. Stormfront, n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://www.martinlutherking.org/>. • Umbach, Ken. "California's Velcro Crop under Challenge." Inreach. Inreach.com, 1993. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html>.