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Determining Legitimate Web Sites www.defenselink.mil usmilitary.about.com. Is it someone’s personal page?. Does the URL use words like: Personal J Smith (or a person’s name) GeoCities, AOL, or other commercial servers. What about its domain name?.
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Determining Legitimate Web Sites www.defenselink.mil usmilitary.about.com
Is it someone’s personal page? Does the URL use words like: • Personal • J Smith (or a person’s name) • GeoCities, AOL, or other commercial servers. What about its domain name?
Legitimate Web Sites use endings like: owl.english.purdue.edu/ Domain Names: www.sikids.com/
Domain name = Type k12.ia.us = k-12 school in IA .gov = government.edu = college, university.org = non-profit organization.mil=military OR
Use endings like:State / Country .ca=California .k12.ca.usOR .ca =Canada www.city.timmins.on.ca .au = Australia .de = Deutschland
Less dependable sites(anyone can write these)use domain endings like:.htm or .html HyperText Markup Language.net = Internet service Provider.com =Commericalsite
Are these dependable sites?www.fuelfacts.org/headlines008.htmwww.niddk.nih.gov/www.diabetes.org.uk/home.htmwww.city.timmins.on.ca/Municipal.pdf
How could you tell which sites were dependable? • Look at the domain names. • Look at the site and then • Evaluate the content.
What do these endings tell you? www.fuelfacts.org/headlines008.htm www.niddk.nih.gov/ www.diabetes.org.uk/home.htm www.city.timmins.on.ca/Municipal.pdf
When you look at the sites, remember to always evaluatefor accuracy, currency, and appropriateness.
Who published the pages? Is the publisher a trusted source? The publisher is listed between the “www” and the domain name. .www.nytimes.com = the New York Times www.goarmy.com = U. S. Army http://www.alberteinstein.info = a university site
For more examples, go to http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html