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Let's see what you can tell by a website's
address or url. Print out the grouping
websites worksheet. Explore these sites and group them into the following
subject areas: government, education,
k-12 education, commercial, Canada
and organization. |
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The World Wide Web has millions and millions of sites. Go to the following site and print out the sheets to learn how to do smart keyword searching.
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Visit
the Quick
Quality Information Checklist and read carefully. Visit all the
sites related to the site as this
information will be important for
you in Activity #4. |
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Using
all the information you have learned
in the previous activities, now create
your own Web Site Reliability Checklist
with your partner that can easily
be used by other students and teachers
at WES. Create a webpage to display
your checklist and linked to this
site. Once this has been approved
by the teacher it can be printed for
others to use. |
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Deconstructing Web Pages
Check out the authenticating online info site from Media Awareness Network.
Visit
the following
sites.
With your partner determine whether
the sites you have visited are reliable
sources of information. In other words,
you have to decide if the sites you
are visiting are hoax sites. You will
need to explain your choices with
arguments in order to convince others
that might visit these sites. Make sure you use tools from Activity 2 & 3 to support your opinion. |
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Teens today use chats, msn, webpages, and email regularly to communicate with others. It is important that you can distinquish between sharing personal and private information. Print out the checklist for each one of the four sites and work with your partner to identify the information in each person's site using the checklist:Mike's page, Jeremy's page, Jessica's page and Adam's page. |
