Blog Entry: High School IT focus this week/last week:
Continuing and completing unit on
“Searching for and Evaluating
Information on the www: Or Digi Know?”
Learning about: ways to find the best and most accurate info on
the www AND Evaluate it.
Boolean operator and related techniques
Ways to know the information is reliable:
FOUR step process:
1. look for, check-domain name and code
2. determine author or authorship
3. look for date and time of publication
4. Determine ownership, sponsorship who supports, host underwrtites the domain and website
Also some cool tools: The Wayback machine, WHois Look up, Scopes Rumour page an Noodle and related search and citation machines…
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