Understanding Internet Terms

CARRDSS ReviewCREDIBILITY: Checking for bias/ unbalanced

information

ACCURACY: Looking for quotes/ bibliography/ in text documentation

RELIABILITY: Comparing facts from sources and checking website’s spelling and grammar

RELEVANCE: Looking at the grade level, content, graphics, amount of text

DATE: Checking the author’s publications, education, and experience

SOURCES: Checking whether the website is current

SCOPE AND PURPOSE: Using information that answers your research question

Using CARRDSS to Evaluate golfcross.com

• Your gym teacher wants you to do an extra credit report on an unusual sport.

• Would Golf Cross be a good sport to choose, or is it a made up website?

Definition Hints

• Be brief but make sure you understand your definition

• Don’t get stuck on one word/ domain for too long

Internet Terms:

• Search engine– a computer

program that searches documents for a specific word and provides a list of documents in which they are found.

• Website:– A connected group

of pages on the internet regarded as one unit, usually maintained by one person or organization and devoted to a topic.

Internet Terms:

• Link:– word, phrase,

picture, etc, in a computer document on which a user may click to move to another part of the document or to another document

• Keyword:– a word that serves

as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage

Internet Terms:

• Browser:– A software program

that allows you to find and read documents, especially such a program for use on the Internet.

• URL:– Uniform Resource

Locator: a procedure for specifying addresses on the Internet

Internet Domains

• .gov– government

• .com– commercial

• .edu– educational

• .org– Non-profit

organization

• .net– Networking

technologies

• .mil– military

• .~tilde– personal

.gov

• Definition:–

• Title of Website:–

• Owner of Website: –

.com

• Definition:–

• Title of Website:–

• Owner of Website: –

.edu

• Definition:–

• Title of Website:–

• Owner of Website: –

.org

• Definition:–

• Title of Website:–

• Owner of Website: –

.net

• Definition:–

• Title of Website:–

• Owner of Website: –

.mil

• Definition:–

• Title of Website:–

• Owner of Website: –

~ (tilde)

• Definition:–

• Title of Website:–

• Owner of Website: –

Closure:

• You want to donate to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. What domain would its website have?– .org

• You want to check out Fallston High school’s Football Schedule. What domain would FHS’s website have?– .edu

• Mrs. Bruno made her own website about her horses. What would her website have in it, since it is a personal website?– ~ (tilde)

• Casey is doing a report on the White House. What will the White House’s website’s domain be?– .gov