5-1 How to Evaluate a Website

In this lesson you will look at a website and see if you can judge the site's content based on your prior knowledge.

     Just because something is on the Internet and looks real or true doesn’t mean it is. The Internet is full of websites that are misleading, even dangerous. Anyone can make a website but only smart people can make websites that are useful and accurate. You will learn how to look at websites like expert bankers look at money. Even though two-dollar bills may look the same, one might be real and the other a counterfeit. Even the fanciest and most technically slick websites can be false.

 "Help Save the Endangered Northwest Tree Octopus"

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Links to an external site.

 Take a look at this website.  What are your thoughts?  Does this seem to be legitimate site?  Write down a few of your ideas.