An Introduction to Information Forensics: WEB SITE INVESTIGATOR

Presentors Carl Heine & Dennis O'Connor

http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2008/program/search_results_details.php?sessionid=42090249&selection_id=42808849&rownumber=1&max=1&gopage=

 

 

 

21st Century Information Fluency

http://21cif.imsa.edu/

 

http://www.lrs.org/impact.php shows study

 

NETS for students #3 Information fluency

They have an on-line course about information fluency.

 

Digital Information Fluency Model

• What Information am I looking for? (Keywords should I use?)
• Where will I find the information? (What databases or live pages should I search?)
• How will I get there? (Search engine, subject directory, browsing? How?)
• How good is the information? (How can I verify that the information I found is credible?)

 

Students move on to college and outside your school's safe environment. They need to be able to verify information.

 

Once you have a website, you now have author's name to search and Google is a good place to start.

 

Investigative techniques using a search engine or browsing. (Students become an investigative searcher.)

 

You need to find evidence that will stand up in court. WSI

 

What the majority of today's students don't do well	What they tend to do instead
Choose keywords wisely	Rush ahead toward an answer, either grabbing the whole question"as is" or missing an important part of it
Chhose the right databas

 

 

Bogus Websites

 

One of these sites is a hoax, decide which one it is. (Denis does this exercise with new teachers.)

 

Save the Tree Octopus

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

 

Truncate the web address and look at the source. Look at the "Who is Lyle Zapato". Look for things to search on from the page like Psychothermodynamics from Lelvinic University.

 

Shrine to Cary Grant

http://webusers.physics.umn.edu/~jenny/CG_Shrine.html

 

Martin Luther King

http://www.martinlutherking.org/

 

Find the author and look for the name, but it's not there. Storm Front is the publisher.

Use "Who Is" to look for the author.

"http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp?location=www%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fsearch" will show that the domain is taken. It will look up who the owner is for the site.

Look up Don Black in Google and find his homepage.

 

Do a Link Search

 

link:http://martinlutherking.org in Yahoo. (Yahoo is better at this currently.)

 

 

21 Century Information

http://21cif.imsa.edu/wsi/

 

Triangulation is a good way to prove information. Three sites are a good model.

 

Ask students what the purpose of the site is.

 

http://www.malepregnancy.com/

RYT Hospital is the name of the hospital and it has nothing to do with the URL.

This is an on-line portfolio of a web designer. He does medical webpages.

http://www.reemco.com/lawn_and_garden/plecostoma.html

This appears to be a product of Reemco. It's a website for the film producer of Blair Witch.

 

http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

About the author reveals the authors are driving traffic to real information.

http://www.electsusie.com

This is a 10 year old girl who looks like she is running for president. It's actually the Children's Defence Fund. If you check the owner of the domain name, none of the people are traceable.

 

Search BLOGS for information about hoax sites. Blog search engines have to be searched deeply because they are so up-to-date.

 

Internet Search Challenge is a game to play to help kids identify if a website is appropriate or not. Make students look at citation in light of being an investigator.