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**Evaluating Information Source** 'Fifa Boss Done Over By Wikipedia', The Age Newspaper article 21/7/2010 showing how Wikipedia can include errors - Fifa president: Sepp Blatter [|wikipediaerror.png]

Following info. from http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/2010/07/23/alan-november-effective-searching/ Who is the author, owner, publisher of a web site? Go to http://www.easywhois.com

Example of a white supremist site: www.martinlutherking.org. Name looks authentic - publisher has chosen it well. Site may be blocked on school computers but it usually turns up in top 5 in a Google search:

[|//Martin Luther King// Jr. - A True Historical Examination]
The truth about //Martin Luther King//: Includes historical trivia, articles and pictures. A valuable resource for teachers and students alike. www.**martinlutherking**.org/ - [|Cached] - [|Similar] Type martinlutherking.org in the easywhois.com domain name box. Look at information. Registrant information shows Stormfront. Check who Stormfront is. stormfront.org has links to the www.martinlutherking.org site. Have a look at the history of the web site in the Wayback Machine: www.archive.org.

Other examples to try:
 * The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus**: @http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html (Search the octopus in Google).
 * History of Robots in the Victorian Era**: http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html
 * California’s Velcro Crop Under Challenge:** @http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html - fact or fiction?
 * Dihydrogen Monoxide:** @http://www.dhmo.org (look at site, water, search Google - hoax)
 * How to read a web address**
 * Chop off end of web address to go to root site, sounds easy enough but more information on teaching this here.
 * See which organisations use which domains:
 * Go to alta vista link:web address host:edu.au
 * Britain schools sch.uk higher ed ac.uk
 * Url:k12 to see which schools are using it. great ideas on how other teachers are using it.
 * The history of websites and leaving your digital footprint even when you think it’s been erased.**
 * Teach students not to ruin the rest of their life today! www.archive.org finds sites even when sites have been deleted. Copy URL, delete http:// then paste, click ‘take me back’. Archive also shows website changes over time. Can show origins of websites. See here for more information.
 * ~ means personal subdirectory, which is someone’s own opinion.
 * US Freedom of speech protects all sites, even if they are malicious ones.
 * .org in the US is not designated for non profit sites.
 * Anyone can apply for a .org

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