Combating Mind Control & the 3 Bare Essentials of Website Searching

By Jeff Dungan Adapted from M. Romard/B. Boyer

The 3 Bare Essentials

✤ Useful - is your info interesting and pertain to your project?

✤ Reliable - is the site giving unbiased truthful information?

✤ Makes sense - can you easily retell the information from the site?

So what makes a website or webpage good?

With your partner use Kidspiration to map out what makes a Website/Webpage good.

You have 5 minutes!

What You Said...

Bare Essential #1: Useful

✤ Is the info useful? Will it be helpful for your project?

✤ Did Thomas Edison really invent the lightbulb?

✤ Is this new information exciting and enhances what you already have? Is it making you more interested in going there?

✤ Remember your audience is someone like you - a 5th grade student.

WebSite Fail Search #1

http://en.xianchemical.com/newEbiz1/EbizPortalFG/portal/html/ProgramShow.html

Use the Website Evaluation Tool-Link on Mr. D’s Blog

Bare Essential #2: Reliable

Is the website the best authority on the topic?

Is this website biased?

Is this information correct or outdated?

Don’t Be Misinformed!

✤ Biased means the website is trying to push a particular opinion.

✤ If you visited the websites of America’s top restaurants, they’d all say they have the best hamburger or ribs or chicken wings, but obviously they can’t all be right.

✤ Some fact quotes are really opinions or the person/company may have a desire for you to believe them so they can get rich by your actions (you buy their product) so we have to be careful with the information we read.

✤ Finally, the information could be inaccurate.

What’s in a URL?

Can we judge the reliability of a website before reading through all the content?

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✤ http://gochina.about.com/od/wheretoeatinshanghai/gr/SH_DinTaiFung.htm

✤ http://www.shanghai-eats.com/portal/best/20_0.aspx

✤ http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Asia/China/Shanghai_Shi/Shanghai-1003464/Restaurants-Shanghai-Nanxiang_Mantou_Dian-BR-1.html

WebSite Fail Search #2

Best Dumplings in Shanghai

Bare Essential #3: Makes Sense

✤ Like your ‘Just Right’ books, with ‘Just Right’ websites - do you understand what was said.

✤ If we turned away from the website would you be able to explain what you read in your own words

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Keywords for Searches

✤ So how can we find better sites faster?

✤ Let’s watch Common Craft’s Web Search Strategy video

Smart Web Searches

Boolean Searches-AND....OR....NOT

Quotation Marks

“+” “-”Other search operators available on Mr. D’s Blog page

Purpose of this slideshow...✤ Students learn which websites to READ

✤ Students learn how to USE the information from a website

✤ Students can clearly indicate WHERE the information came from

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