Friday, January 20, 2012

Project 7 - Benefits of Blogging

Blogs are an easy way to share brief ideas with your teacher and classmates. In this project, you are going to share what you know about validating websites as credible.

By credible, I mean you trust the website to provide accurate and factual information. This is a critical part of any research project because there are many websites that contain peoples' opinions, inaccurate information, and sometimes outright lies.

Review the list of bogus websites on the DigLit7 wiki.  Review one or more of them and post a comment with three reasons how you identified the website as not credible.  The reasons must be unique and not already used by another student.

7 comments:

  1. How to Tell if a Blog is Fake

    1. the U.R.L
    2. the adress

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  2. The website is fake because:
    1. .edu and .gov is always legit, .com, .net, .org, ect. aren't always

    2. Search the details (towns, people, ect.) if the names show up (on .gov, or .edu) for something that the article didn't relate to, the first website isn't legit

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  3. AMAZON RIVER, Brasil - Tons of people have seen a monster emerge from the cold, brackish water of the Amazon River. This frightening otherwordly creature from a slack lagoon comes complete with scary scary sounds that sound like this a little "AHHHHHHHHHHHHH" and everybody runs.
    The first sighting of this thing happened a long time ago, they tell me, and gulp I don't want to keep reporting this story, it's too scary and nerve wracking, but I will push on, the first sighting came when an old woman was taking a breather on the sand and lolling about, "la la la", and then, "AHHHHHHHHHH" it came out of the water all drippy, and when the thing was actually discovered later that year (you ever notice how someone can see something but it's not "discovered" until a guy from university wanders into the tent?)--whad the hell? oh it's just the fridge starting up--and was officially labeled a monster then all hell broke loose.

    This is a little kid.


    also, this website has no sources.

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  4. CLYVEN THE MOUSE:

    When you listen to the live audio feed of Clyven, they repeat the same sounds over and over again. Also, when you try to test your intelligence with Clyven's, it doesn't work.

    This is no doubt a fake website.

    It also doesn't give a place where the hospital is located

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  5. Male pregnancy-4 reasons the blog wasnt credible
    1. this site is fake because males dont get pregnant in the first place
    2. .com, .net, etc. aren't legit
    3. The video is fake

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  6. http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
    -Wikipedia says it is a hoax
    -in the FAQ, some of the questions are not relevant to the website at all

    Uncyclopedia:
    -the site says "Uncyclopedia is an encyclopedia full of misinformation and utter lies"
    -None of the information on the site has a source

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  7. the photos look super fake and plastic

    the website hasnt been updated since 2007

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