Web Essentials
Web Essentials provides basic important skills for Internet use:
- Reading a website
- What is a URL?
- Powerful techniques for using Search Engines and Directories
- Strategies for Evaluating Web Content
- Awareness for Determining Bias
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An example of a Good Quality Website
To view this multimedia tour of the solar system, click below
http://nineplanets.o
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An example of a Poor Website
To view this site with information about Dihydrogen Monoxide click below
http://www.dhmo.org/
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Good Quality Websites
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Poor Quality and/or Hoax Websites
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The Nine Planets
A multimedia tour of the solar system
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First Genetics
The website of the first laboratory to have successfully genetically engineered an ape to be able to communicate with humans via typing on a keyboard. |
NASA
Images, videos, activities, text about anything and everything space related.
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Titles from Facts About series
This includes information about Beluga Whales, Huckleberry Finn, Sheldrake the Beneficent, Ancient China, the American Civil War, the Planet Mars, Biomes of the World, Albert Enstein
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Passageways (Canadian Explorers)
True tales of adventure for young explorers.
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BioEd Online
Article explaining how some unreliable websites put patients at risk.
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Kakapo Recovery Program
This site is sponsored by the NZ Department of Conservation, Forest and Bird, and Rio Tinto. It is kept up to date and is free of advertising.
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Extinct Animals - Kakapo
While this information may be correct, there is no author, the site has not been recently updated, and "You are our Daily Winner" ads flash on the screen. Also the title Extinct Animals - Kakapo is misleading since as of 2008 the animal is endangered.
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