For 2201

1. Information Literacy Do you know how to establish authority, credibility, & validity of information on websites?

2. Can you read a web address? http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html Do you recognize the domain name? What does the domain tell you about the authority and credibility of the information on the site?

3. http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html What is the extension? What does the extension tell you about the authority and credibility of the information on the site? Name some other extensions?

4. http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html Which of these extensions can anyone buy? .k12 .com .mil .sch .ac .net .org Which of these sites would have the most credible information?

5. http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html Are you on a personal page? What does “di” stand for? What page of the website are you on? How credible is the information on this site?

6. Who is Arthur R. Butz? Let’s triangulate! Google SpyFu How reliable is Wikipedia? How are search engines different? Duck DuckGo

7. Find the publisher of a website. Researching Martin Luther King. www.easywhois.com

8. What is the history of a site? www.archive.org