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What’s in a (website) name?

What’s in a (website) name?. Decoding a URL address. Source : http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/docs/lesson4.ppt#270,2,So, Where Am I, Anyway?. Where do you live?. Where are you right now? Lansing Middle School How would a stranger know how to find Maplewood? You’d give him the address

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What’s in a (website) name?

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  1. What’s in a (website) name? Decoding a URL address Source: http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/docs/lesson4.ppt#270,2,So, Where Am I, Anyway?

  2. Where do you live? • Where are you right now? • Lansing Middle School • How would a stranger know how to find Maplewood? • You’d give him the address • 509 W. Ida • Lansing, KS 66043 • A URL gives the same type of information

  3. Where the URL address take you • The suffix (.____) tells you the type of site you are visiting. Sometimes it tells the country where the website publisher is located.

  4. What the abbreviations stand for: • commercial • organization • education • government • network • information • biz (business) • tv (television) • canada • uk (United Kingdom)

  5. What makes a reliable website? • Who wrote/published the site? Are they a reliable authority? • What does the author/publisher have to say about the site? Is it biased? • When was the site created and/or last updated? • Where does the information come from?

  6. Now it’s your turn • Go back and look for instructions on completing a website evaluation.

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