Which of the following is NOT true about the Internet?

A person must apply for a license to create a website.

Some websites provide very reliable factual information.

Some websites manipulate data in order to sell a product.

Some websites are created as jokes.

You wake for school only to discover that four inches of snow fell overnight. Using the Internet, what's the best way to find out if your school has been canceled or delayed?

A. Check Instagram to see what your friends are doing.

B. Check the school's website to see if the administrator has posted anything there.

C. Check the website of your local television station; it has a whole section on closings and cancellations

You are researching space exploration and you find a website that details all of the Apollo space missions. In evaluating the legitimacy of the site, you examine where links go from the site. Which types of links would most add to the site's credibility?

Links out to an astronaut's Instagram page

Links out to the ice skater, Apollo Ono's, personal website

Links out to the move Apollo 13

Credibility Test

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Finding information that is up-to-date is also important. What can you look for on a website to let you know how current the information is?

Title of the website

Date last updated

Author of the website

Works Cited

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Some information is not intended for students your age. How can you decide if a website has material that is appropriate for you?

Google has everything! Just start there.

Everything online is true. It doesn't matter if it's appropriate or not.

Ask yourself, "Is the author's language and vocabulary intended for me or for someone older/younger than me?"

If the page is blocked, that's a sure sign the website has inappropriate content.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The details about a website help us to decide if it's worth spending time there. What is one thing to look for when looking for a website's "user-friendliness"?

copyright date

pretty pictures

lots of text

a site map, which is like a table of contents

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Finding information that is up-to-date is also important. What can you look for on a website to let you know how current the information is?

Title of the website

Date last updated

Author of the website

Works Cited

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Sometimes it's hard to tell the intent or the reason why information has been published on the web. What might distract you from getting the information you need?

Ads or pop-ups

A mission statement explaining why he/she created the website

Date last updated

Links to additional information

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which words are associated with credibility?

Trustworthiness

Believing

Reliablility

All of these choices are correct

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which website can be considered most credible?

.net

.com

.int

.edu

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Credibility Test

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Finding information that is up-to-date is also important. What can you look for on a website to let you know how current the information is?

Some information is not intended for students your age. How can you decide if a website has material that is appropriate for you?

The details about a website help us to decide if it's worth spending time there. What is one thing to look for when looking for a website's "user-friendliness"?

Finding information that is up-to-date is also important. What can you look for on a website to let you know how current the information is?

Sometimes it's hard to tell the intent or the reason why information has been published on the web. What might distract you from getting the information you need?

Which words are associated with credibility?

Which website can be considered most credible?

A web URL that ends with ".gov" means that the website is associated with what?

Blog posts and Facebook status updates are the best sources for factual information.

Which of the following is not an example of a personal website?

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