Thursday, April 26, 2012

1. This checkpoint help us to know where we usually find the author's name, how to know if the author is reliable.#inforeliability 2. a good website will tell you who it's for and what it's trying to tell you . 3. Read through the information and then decide whether it has really told you what it said it would. #inforeliability 4. If the website doesn't answer your questions, it is not useful to you. The more answers you can find, the better the site. 5. how can you tell? You can tell btwn fact or an opinion by checking if it's repeated on another (reliable) website 6.Check your resources, books or newspaper. Once in a while, they updated new thing so it's good to check. 7.To determine whether the website is bias ask yourself "Do they giving you lots of information that you can make up your own mind? 8.Rule: do not trust any website that provide you only 1 option Because they want you to trust only their website, ussually the websit's fake

Checkpoint

The checkpoint has help me by look at the author of the information. Base on that author we can find out is the web reliable or not

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Internet searching

5 ways to improve your search: 1. Be specific 2. Don't put worlds like 'and' or 'the' 3. Use quotes around words 4. Put a plus symbol to make sure that the word is searched. 5. Put a minus symbol to make sure the word is not searched. _ It is important to search properly because we can find more useful information of our topic. for example if you want to search about "dog". They will give you all kind of dog so it hard to find the information that you wanted

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Bizzare facts

1. Did you know... 38% of Americans eat breakfast everyday. 2. Did you know... 65% of the candy that is produced in an year is consumed by American adults 18 years and older. 3. Did you know... 850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter. 4. Did you know... Jacob scare of dog