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National history Day - Gomolsky

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Relevancy and Credibility

6 Factors
1) Neighborhood - Where on the web?-----check URL .gov; .com; .org; edu
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CHECK OUT:  About this site;  Mission;   Site Index;  Site Map
Click on the following links to determine if they are:          
A) Selling - store, corp, is there a cart? --making $ one-sided     
B) Informing - libraries, museums, schools, gov't --is info even handed?; all views  
C) Persuading
- info is one-sided, advocating for something or way of thinking
Sierra Club
Princeton Review
 Handbook of Texas Online

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Make the Inference
2) Background - Who? Author/ Publisher (person, company, organization)
CHECK OUT:  About us;  About this site;  Our Team; name next to the copyright symbol
    Do they have the education, training, experience to be AUTHORITIES?
Look for clues!

TRY:      Web Search;      Database Search for articles;      Google Scholar - "author's name"
______________________________________________________________________________
Find the authors of the following web sites
Victorian Web
The War of 1812
The American  Folklife Center
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3) Bias -  What? A preference toward a subject, item, group, idea, policy, etc.
Everyone has biases. Be aware of your own--they shape how you view everything.
Keep an open mind.
What to use?  Who to trust?

M - Message - look critically at:
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A - Author - background - (education, relationships, peer review) and trustworthiness

P - Purpose
(Why) - what is its mission? Is it known to be partisan (one-sided)?
How to tell?  Look at:      Mission       Funding-who, what        Members-editorial board         Linked sources
How is it possible to use a biased source?
Determine if there is any bias at this site. Why? of Why not?
PolitiFact
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Make the inference

4) Recognition - Where? - from others who cite, bookmark, react or link
Use Google Search to determine how many links to the site:    eyeonDNA.com                                                                      link:eyeonDNA.com
For magazine articles:  Type in the Title of the article in quotes in Google search
For scholarly articles:  Type in the Title of the article in quotes in Google Scholar

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Make the inference

5) Thoroughness - (What?) - how does its coverage compare to similar sites?
Search Google like this:   related:eyeonDNA.com

Then browse the other sites

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Make the inference

 6) Currency - (What?) - is the info recent, updated
       Check:  last updated;  dateline on article;  page creation; what's new; 
                    press releases; broken links

                  Check out how the TED site handles their currency
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Your turn!
Evaluate one of the web sites you have chosen for your research.
Fill in the form

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    • ABOUT US
    • Book Trailers
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    • Plagiarism
    • Mrs. Livingston's Hispanic Heritage
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    • Mr. Vergara's Dual Credit
    • Mr. Keen's Pseudoscience Research
    • Mr. Jurado's Classes - Persuasive Topics
    • Mrs. Yost's Research
    • Mr. Cabrera's Classes - Controversial Topics
    • Mrs. Gardea
    • Mr. Dubrule's Classes - Persuasive Speech
    • Ms. Peterson's Classes - Informative Speech
    • Mr. Abilez - World History
    • Mr. Dillard History of the Americas
    • Mr. Sweetnam Ethics
    • Classes -- more >
      • Ms. Peterson's Research
      • Mr. Keen's Save the World Research
      • Mr. Dubrule - Informative Speech
      • Research - Bibliography, Citations, and Plagiarism Oh My!
      • Ms. Gomez Research
      • Camachos's Plagiarism
      • Mrs. Valero's Eng. 3
      • Sweetnam's Ethics
      • Ms. Yost's Classes-Careers and Reading for Pleasure
      • AgriScience Research
      • Ms. Madrid's Macbeth Research
      • Ms. Madrid's Crucible Research
      • Ms. Gomez
    • Ms. Grindstaff 's English 3 Classes
    • Mr. Jimenez's Astronomy Classes
    • Mr. Johnson's Green Screen Projects
    • Mr.. Alexander's RESEARCH CLASS
    • Ms. Bassett's IB Prep Research
    • Mr. Focht European History
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    • Welcome Orientation Classes!
    • Mr. Wilkinson's IB Biology Research
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    • History of the Americas Research
    • Mrs. Rodriguez
    • Mr. Vergara's Dual Credit
    • Speech
    • Ms. Suira
    • Ms. Lemon's Siege Machines Research
    • Mr. Perez - Pathophysiology Classes
    • Mr. Allen - Government & Economics
    • Ms. Cmerek's Research and Web Evaluation
    • Mr. Mendoza Robotics
    • Mr. Jurado's English Classes 2017
    • Ms. Cmerek's History of the Americas
    • Mr. Vergara's Summer Classes
    • Mr. Dubrule's Classes -2017 Persuasive Speech
    • Research - Bibliography, Citations, and Plagiarism Oh My!
    • Mr. Wilkinson - Biologists/Ecologists
    • Dubrule Informative Profession or University
    • Ms. Gomez - Author Research Page
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    • Mrs.. Duckett's Classes - Decades Research
    • Mr. Levitt's Classes - Decades Research
    • Ms. Cmerek's World History Classes
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    • Mrs. Rodriguez's - Modern Romanticism/Transcendentalism
    • Ms. Getzlaff's History & Literature Research
    • Gomolsky's Philosophy
    • Mrs. Lemon's Infographics
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    • MS. BRINKMAN's RESEARCH CLASS
    • Ms. Wooley's Classes 2016-17
    • Ms. Wilhite
    • Mrs. Mitchell's Dance Classes
    • Ms. Capoldi's Dual-Credit Classes - Literary Research
    • MS. CAPOLDI'S RESEARCH PAGE
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    • MR. RAMOS' CLASS
    • MR. ALEXANDER'S Mathematician Biography Research
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