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Testing your web IQ

http://www.soople.com

http://www.snap.com

http://www.ask.com

http://www.answers.com

http://www.technorati.com

http://www.kartoo.com

http://www.clusty.com

http://www.tekmom.com

http://www.scholar.google.com

http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest/

Validating Information on the Web--Get REAL

R--read the URL

Do you recognize the domain name?

What is the extension of the domain name?

Are you on a personal page? (look for a name, a tilde, a percent sign, or words like member,users, etc)Truncate the address and to see what the homepage looks like

E-Examine the Content

Don't judge a book by its cover

Be a critical reader

A-Ask about the author and owner

Check the "contact us" or "about us" button, look up the author in google

Use easywhois to see who owns the site

http://www.easywhois.com

Check out the past versions of the site

http://www.archive.org (try Harrypotter.com)

L-Look at the links

Check the URL's of the forward links (hover your cursor over the linked text)--you should find a wide variety of academic sources. Be leary if all the links take you other spots in the same home page.

Check the back links (see who links to this site--it's easy with Soople). Who is linked to the site? Why? What do other sites say about the material on the site?

http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/

http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html

http://www.dhmo.org/

http://www.martinlutherking.org/

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html

http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html

Links for the Flickr project:

Flickr

My Flickr Project

Kentucky Core Content 4.1