This document discusses how to evaluate the trustworthiness and reliability of online sources. It provides tips for determining if a source is credible, such as checking the URL and domain extension, verifying the author's credentials, examining what other sites link to it, distinguishing facts from opinions, and using multiple sources to verify information. The key message is the importance of carefully evaluating online sources and not relying on any single one.

1. Digital Literacy
Kathy Kraemer and Becky Beck

2. What is Digital literacy?

3. Why do we care?

4. How do we know
if we have a good source?

5. Where do we start?
URL

6. Anatomy of a URL

7. Http://doepud.co.uk/blog/anatomy-of-a-url.php

10. http://www.startribune.com/sports/twins/188619681.html

11. Domain name extensions
.gov
.com
.net
.org
.govt
.co

12. Location codes
.au
.cn
.tx
.jp
.es
.ca

13. Whitehouse. COM

14. MartinLutherKing. org

15. Http://martinlutherking.org

16. Is the author trustworthy?
Teaching Zack
to Think
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~abutz/index.html

19. Now, we can cheat.

20. Is the author trustworthy?
•Look for a biography of the author.
•See if you can contact the author.
•Look to see what sites are linked
to the author.

21. What sites are linked to this site?

22. Use this trick…

27. Is the organization trustworthy?
• Check the URL.
• See who is linked to their site.
• See if you can contact the organization.
• Use multiple sources.

28. Hurricane Sandy Slideshow
90,ooo
70,000

29. What photos don’t belong in
this Hurricane Sandy slideshow?

30. Authentic Hurricane Sandy?

33. Is the author trustworthy?

34. The Old Guard’s response

39. Authentic Hurricane Sandy?

40. French Art Installation

42. Fact or opinion?

43. When was the site updated?

44. Is the site free of spelling
and grammatical errors?

45. Are sources
given for statistics?

46. Can you tell the difference
between ads and content?

47. Who sponsors the site?

48. Name 3 things that aren’t trustworthy…

49. Wikipedia as a springboard

50. Google as a place
for an appetizer

51. ELM as a place for a meal

52. Café ELM (elm4you.org)

53. DESTINY

54. Global Issues in Context

55. Global Issues in Context

56. http://goo.gl/PSDPp

57. Use multiple resources.
Use multiple resources.
Use multiple resources.

58. Use your tricks
• Examine the URL.
• Verify that the author and organization are
trustworthy.
• Confirm sites are linked to your resource.
• Determine opinion from fact.
• Utilize reputable sites.
• Use multiple resources.

59. Thank you!
Kathy Kraemer and Becky Beck
Fridley IB World Schools