Searching and Evaluating the Internet

What does adding AND do to your search?

• It expands your search to make it larger
• It narrows down the search to only what you are looking for
• Give you differing options
• Nothing

What does adding OR do to your search?

• It opens up your search, but only a little bit
• Doesn't change anything
• It compares things and then tells you which is better
• It gives you options that expands your search

What does adding "quotes" do to your search?

• It broadens it so that you have more options
• It explains who made the quote
• What ever is in the quotes is exactly side by side in your search 
• It shows your reader you understand how to search

What does adding (NOT or - ) do to your search?

• It gives you things you don't want in your search
• It separates terms
• It gives you a mathematical formula for an equation
• It removes the item after NOT in your search term

When you evaluate websites, what does checking for accuracy mean?

• That only the information is correct for the past year 
• How reliable is the info.  Can you cross reference it?
• That people who created the site didn't make errors
• That the information was used to figure out something complex

What does bias mean?

• Some trying to persuade you or has a strong opinion about things
• It is an argumentative technique used by certain people
• It is factual information not opinion
• People who think differently

Why is locating the author important on a website?

• To be able to contact them if you need to
• You need to make sure the information is credible
• The site won't work if there isn't any author.

How do you know if the information is in-depth and up-to-date?

• Only if you can see it on the first page
• Are there stats and links to other sources.  Is the page current
• If it is in wikipedia
• When you find it in books also

Is everything you read online correct?

• Yes
• No

How should you view the Internet when using information in research?

• That it is primarily trustworthy, so I'm ok
• Lots of shared content that I can share with others
• That most of it is chunk, so why bother
• With healthy skepticism applying the evaluating websites techniques