1. Combating Mind Control
& the 3 Bare Essentials
of Website Searching
By Jeff Dungan
Adapted from M. Romard/B. Boyer
Adapted from M. Romard/B. Boyer
Adapted from M. Romard/B. Boyer
Adapted from M. Romard/B. Boyer
2. 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?
3. 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!
5. 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.
6. WebSite Fail Search #1
http://en.xianchemical.com/newEbiz1/EbizPortalFG/portal/html/Progr
Use the Website Evaluation Tool-Link on Mr. D’s Blog
7. 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Is this information correct or outdated?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!
8. ✤ 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.
9. What’s in a URL?
Can we judge the reliability of a website
before reading through all the content?
Glad you asked....
• Com
• Gov
• Edu
• Org
10. Support the Ban of DMHO.
Help save the world by being informed
about this lethal and ever present gas!
Click link on Mr. D’s Blog page (Links 1,3,5)
11. WebSite Fail Search
#2
Best Dumplings in Shanghai
✤ http://gochina.about.com/od/wheretoeatinshanghai/gr/SH_DinTaiFu
✤ http://www.shanghai-eats.com/portal/best/20_0.aspx
✤ http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Asia/China/Shanghai_Shi/Shan
12. 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
13. Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanies
Block most forms of brain scanning and mind reading, keeping the secrets in
Click on link on Mr. D’s Blog
14. Keywords for Searches
✤ So how can we find better sites faster?
✤ Let’s watch Common Craft’s Web Search Strategy video
15. Smart Web Searches
Boolean Searches-AND....OR....NOT
Quotation Marks
“+” “-”
Other search operators available on Mr. D’s Blog page
16. 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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