Facts vs Crap

  Finding a good source for a paper or project can be a difference from and A or a C. If you base your work around sources you are relying on it to have correct information, but not all sources are reliable. In class, we had to do activities which helped us understand what makes a website trustworthy. The three main characteristics that were focused on was accuracy, authenticity, and reliability,

  One activity we did was called "a Google a day" (.http://www.agoogleaday.com/#game=started.). This is a game created by Google, where you are provided questions and then forced to use the search bar given to find the answer. I found this game frustrating because i would type something into the search bar and it would be completely irrelevant to what i wanted to find. Also, when i thought i found the right answer, i realized that some random person created the website so the answer was far from correct.Throughout the frustration i found out that typing key words from the question is much more helpful than searching the actual question. 

 Accuracy, Authenticity, and Reliability makes a website a great source. Without one of these qualities, the work you could be putting under your own name could be completely incorrect. To me accurate is being right, or truthful. Authenticity is being original, and not copying other sites or people. Reliability means that the site has consistently moral work that is also updated often.  Our teacher made us explore the website http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/; we had to determine if this website had the three qualities to make it a good source. Although it was authentic, the tree octopus is a complete myth. The website is filled with pictures of stuffed animals in trees, and photo shopped pictures of octopuses. If someone used this for a school reference they would most likely get a bad grade because all the information on this website is false.