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Questioning the Quality of Internet Information:

Questioning the Quality of Internet Information with Internet Detective SESSION 9

The Internet reflects the real World: - it contains the good, the bad and the ugly ...:

The Internet reflects the real World: - it contains the good, the bad and the ugly ... It is left up to you, the user, to decide which is which!

Quality Warning!:

Quality Warning! On the Internet anyone can publish anything - academic journals sit next to comics -presidential speeches, next to idle gossip

Quality Warning!:

Quality Warning! Internet resources are volatile - can be here today, gone tomorrow - might be useful one day and useless the next

Quality Warning!:

Quality Warning! Resources are not always user-friendly - bad design can prohibit access - usability will vary

You need to be careful with Internet Information!:

You need to be careful with Internet Information! don’t degrade your work by using poor quality information don’t get caught citing mis-information learn how to filter search results and sort the good from the bad from the ugly

It can pay to think like a detective:

It can pay to think like a detective look for clues ask questions consider the motives of people publishing on the Internet trust nobody until you have good cause to do so

Internet Detective:

Internet Detective a Web-based tutorial free to do self- paced interactive - with quizzes and exercises offers tips and hints for evaluating information found on the Internet

Time to hire the Internet Detective! :

Time to hire the Internet Detective ! http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/brief.html

Additional Resources:

Additional Resources The 21 st Century Information Fluency Project Or this one: http://library.acadiau.ca/help/tutorials.html

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