Friday, January 20, 2012

Project 7 - Benefits of Blogging

Blogs are an easy way to share brief ideas with your teacher and classmates. In this project, you are going to share what you know about validating websites as credible.

By credible, I mean you trust the website to provide accurate and factual information. This is a critical part of any research project because there are many websites that contain peoples' opinions, inaccurate information, and sometimes outright lies.

Review the list of bogus websites on the DigLit7 wiki.  Review one or more of them and post a comment with three reasons how you identified the website as not credible.  The reasons must be unique and not already used by another student.

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14 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 26, 2012 at 7:46 AM

    Hi! This is Samantha Ehlers. Here are my tips:
    1) Check the date. Websites are often updated. If the last update was many years ago, the website is FAKE.
    2) If the site is for a charity or organization, it should have a link for donations. If it does not have any way to donate, it is FAKE.
    I hope this helps!

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  2. MegJanuary 27, 2012 at 11:06 AM

    Hi!!!!!! Its Meg and I found these 2 clues to show if a website is fake or not.
    1. If the website tells you to do something and something will happen that could NEVER happen in real life. An example is if they say to put food out and a tree octopus will get it that is NOT possible.
    2. If the website tells you that it is not on the endangered species list than it must not be real because the goverment would put it on the list.
    Bi!!!!!

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  3. SamFebruary 6, 2012 at 9:46 AM

    Here are 2 tips about a website being fake...
    1. If the website has no advertisements, its fake
    2. If the website says false info such as a man being pregnant or aluminum foil being able to "protect" your brain, is fake.
    Adios :P

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 6, 2012 at 10:00 AM

    My first reason that the treeoctopus is a fake website because they compare it to king kong and king kong isn't real. My second reason is that the treeoctopus isn't on the endangered species list.

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  5. Caroline BenjaminFebruary 6, 2012 at 10:02 AM

    Hi!!!! its skiergirl and i have 2 tips to share on how to find out if a website is fake.
    1. If there is no creator of the website metioned.
    2. If the date it says it is created was the date you looked at it then it is fake

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 6, 2012 at 10:04 AM

    Hi! This is Caroline S! I found these two tips for figuring out if a website is fake or not:
    1. If the website hasn't been updated for more than a year, it's fake
    2. If the website makes no sense, like a tree octopus, than it is also fake

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 6, 2012 at 10:04 AM

    for the RYT Hospital- Dwayne Medical Center is fake because there's no ER and ICU and my second reason is there is no address or where the hopsital is located.

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM

    1 if the website has only one picture it is a fake

    2 if the website has a animal that is a fictionel character or its from a book it is a fake

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 6, 2012 at 10:07 AM

    my second reason for the treeoctopus is there was no more than 4 pictures on the treeoctopus

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  10. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2012 at 5:51 AM

    Hi this is Adele(:
    here are my two ways to find out if a website is FAKE or REAL
    1. If there is no email to contact the owner then the website is most likely FAKE
    2.If it doesnt say who made the wesbite it is probably NOT Reall
    thannksss
    byeee(:
    -Adele

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  11. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2012 at 10:41 AM

    heyyyyyy it's jojo, so i found two ways to find out if a website is real or not,so here they are!!!!!!!!!
    1.) if the website doesn't say who made it then it's probs not real, like in Haggis Hunt
    2.) then another one, if you can only see about one or two pictures on the website, it's not real because the person just needed to get it done, and thought people wouldn't notice

    thanks yalllllllll <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3!!!!!!!!!!
    jojo

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  12. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2012 at 10:46 AM

    Hi it is Owen Bass, these are reasons of how to find a fake website.
    1.) First if they mention things like IACUC committee and you look it up and it is not there, it is probably fake.
    2.) second if you open a link from the webpage and it does not load and say's "webpage not found" then it is fake

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  13. alex sFebruary 16, 2012 at 12:47 PM

    I googled Patrick Boone a guy who researched cats according to the Feline Reaction site. He was listed in the bibliography. When I googled him, he didn't exist. When I googled the link it sent me to a Hoax Website.

    1) Google the topic on Hoax websites.
    2) Look up researchers names from the bibliography to see if their research can be found

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  14. bbrakmanFebruary 22, 2012 at 11:06 AM

    Hi its Bram Brakman and i found 2 ways this is fake
    1. the IACUC and if you look it up and its not existing there is fake
    2. If the websiste does not say who made it it is fake
    good bye
    Bram

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