INTERNET SAFETYOnce it’s on the Internet, it’s on there forever!

Be careful what you post on Facebook or Twitter…

Future Employers and Universities can also check your online profile.

For more information on how to act responsibly on the Internet, check out Common Sense Media

http://www.commonsensemedia.org

Use the Way Back Machine to see

what earlier versions of a website.

Go to www.archive.org

Click on the blue circle from a particular date to see what a website used to look like.

This is the UK Guardian from 2001

Advanced

(many people just use the first few ‘hits’ on a Google search!)

site:edu / site:ac – find only university sites

site:edu enzymes

site:ac.uk – finds UK university sites

site:ac.uk matrices

site:gov – finds only government sites

site:gov terrorism

tech* (the wild card – anything that starts with the letters after tech)

- but not – search for dolphins but not football = dolphins -football

~ (the word after the tilde is searched as well as its synonyms

TRUSTING SOURCES

Can you what you find on the Internet?

Search for Martin Luther King (famous civil rights leader from the United States)

Type: Martin Luther King

into

This is the 4th or 5th hit

Think you can trust it? Take a look at:

www.martinlutherking.org

Use this tool to find out who owns and publishes the site:

The site is owned by Stormfront, an extreme right wing organization:

So, can you trust what you see on the Internet?

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

DataInformationKnowledgeWisdom

DATAFacts and figures, but out of context, it has no meaning

INFORMATIONData organised in some way so that it makes sense

KNOWLEDGEUnderstanding, applying information to a situation

WISDOMUsing your knowledge to deal with situations