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R-Hackers--My Page Evaluation & Example

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Arlene, Penguins – [|www.penguinwarehouse.com] When looking at the site next to our rubric for authenticity the site has a few downfalls. The author is MIA and I cannot find anything about when the site was updated. The links going in and out of the site do work and portray penguin paraphernalia. This is a shopping site. The purpose is to sell penguin items such as books, clothing, jewelry (of which there is none) and posters. The navigation of the site is simple enough and if you chose to purchase something you are directed to Amazon. The site is powered by Amazon; it goes directly to the Amazon shopping cart. The description of the site is a bit misleading as it would make one believe that they are truly ordering a real penguin but when you actually connect to the site it is clear that it is truly only stuffed penguins. Not all content on the site is solely about penguins. There are books, such as “Do Penguins Have Knees” based on “imponderable” subjects such as what happens to your social security number when you die? The site is based on penguin titles. When cross checking the site that is where you find misleading information. I checked the site in Snopes which states that the site is “False.” But in all purposed, the snopes site has not been updated since June of 2007 so the site portrayal may at one time been correct but is no longer correct. Snopes states that you can only purchase through mail order, there is no phone number listed, which is correct, but this is clearly an Amazon site as of today. If the site was at one time false, it is no longer false but could be said to be misleading in the content description. As for use of the site within a class, you could use the site in two ways. One to demonstrate how sites change and the validity of information, the other could be for security within shopping sites and checking site encryption.

Janet [] National Driver's License Records Bureau. This site allows you to enter a name, city and state and will provide you with a copy of the person's driver license, complete with the picture. As you read through the text on the page, it seems like the information is legitimate. The site uses government terms, including acronyms, so at face value, a lot of people could be fooled. I chose this site because of my background in human resources; part of my job was to run MVR on potential employees as well as check records monthly to be sure we did not have any alcohol violations. I knew there were strict guidelines in place so I knew this site would be bogus, but I wanted to see how real it appeared. For the evaluation, the first thing I noticed was the web address. If this was truly a government site, it should have ended in .gov. The "author" of the website is the National Motor Vehicle License Organization. When I entered that in google, I get this same website, some hoax implications but the scariest is several links that have anti-virus 2008 in the address. The site is very easy to navigate, but you also find out it is bogus when you put your name, city and state in the fields. It searches, then when it loads, it shows a monkey as my driver license picture. Therefore, it was easy to determine that the site is set up for entertainment purposes. I think most kids (possibly even adults) would fall for this joke. In fact, there is a place you can email the link to your friends. Because the end result provides a monkey, even if the kids searched through this site, it is harmless (unless anti-virus 2008 is attached to it). The site is set up as good, clean fun. This can be a teaching tool as it allows the students to use the rubric to work through the steps to evaluate the first page. The student would have to determine from the beginning if it was bogus or correct before seeing the monkey picture. This would be a great testing site to see if they evaluate--give me the answer before you click "license search."

Gary Class #2 Rubric **#1. Author,** credentials [] Peter Macinnis ** [|Kick started by a dung beetle] **  Peter Macinnis **shows how to make a simple story convincing**. His Giant Dung Beetle in Cootaburra on the  CorellaRiver has appeared in news stories around the world. In 1998, The author has other works which have been recognized. "The Desert" was cited as notable in the CBCA Book of the Year awards -- and made it onto the Clayton's short list, but not the real thing. "The Rainforest" was shortlisted for the [|Wilderness Society's Environment Award for children's literature] -- we missed the Big One, but, hey, somebody out there likes us -- and in July 2000, we took out a Whitley award for "Best Children's Book -- Story and Illustration". See [|The Whitley Awards page] of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW for more. My Kokoda Track: 101 Days was shortlisted for the [|2007 NSW Premier's History Prize] in the Young people's History Prize category, but missed the Big One. No matter, it was an [|Eve Pownall Honour Book in the 2008 CBCA awards].
 * 1) 2 .com commercial business site. The web address contains the authors email and I can not find credible sites to substaniate the truth of this story.
 * 2) 3. links There were numerous other names that were highlighted in the article. (other authors and references) I opened some of these sites and they seemed credible yet the backgound on the screen was similar. One article talked about polyester sheep, and it made me skeptical so I did a word search on goggle for the scientific name referred to in the article and it was legitimate. Most of the links **lack the credibility** other than what the author states., Peter is the authors of some of these sites or links.
 * 3) 4 updates= There were revisions dated to 2006 and cross reference articles that were dated 2007.
 * 4) 5. Objectivity of the site. It is light hearted and gives a history of an Australian rural community that has __tried__ to establish an identity by establishing the ‘dung’ beetle as a mascot.
 * 5) 6. Accessibility- The links I cross referenced to were easy to get to and substantiated the region and culture. Graphics and Pictures.
 * 6) 7. The History of the area was the main reason for the article. “Light hearted and informative” and a 'spoof'. Australian "pub" is cousin to the British pub. It is a public house, a hotel, a place that serves alcoholic drinks to the public. Most people drink beer, but spirits and soft drinks are to be had, and wine is often possible. Some pubs are giant booze emporia, but country pubs in places like Yandackworroby are important social centres, and resting places for the passing traveller and bushwalkers like us, heading into, or out of, the nearby wilderness areas.
 * 8.** **cross check data**: I did a‘google’ searchon a topic that seemed far fetched. I searched links that were given and they seemed credible yet not enough cross reference sites to justify accuracy. The author has received awards for other books written, yet they are childrens books and seem to cater to the imagination.
 * 9. effectiveness**. “5” dung" beetles out of “5”. Yet a search of other search engines other than 'google' do not validate that Cootaburra South Wales has a mascot for the town such as the Dung beetle. THE SITE IS 'TRASH' . not accurate. I would encourage students to examine the __links__ for authorship. The background on the links are the same alerting the reader that the authorsship is similar. The credits for the article express that the author **knows how to make a simple story convincing**. I would say that the author has crreated a fiction story, his credentials are okay but the story is made up. Students should watch out for links which are traced back to the same person.

Class 2 Rubric Assignment Vicki Fuesz == 24.GenoChoice : RYT Hospital [|http://www.genochoice.com] Thank you for considering GenoChoice to plan the future well-being of you and your family. My name is Dr. Elizabeth Preatner, a prenatal geneticist and embryologist here at GenoChoice. Using our state-of-the-art technologies, you can quite possibly ensure that your child's life may be free of such diseases as cancer, Alzheimer's, and heart disease -- as well as conditions like obesity, aggression, and dyslexia. Our probes and DNA amplifiers can identify these negative genes and eliminate them in your child... all at the pre-embryonic stage! == AN EXMPLE FROM MY SEARCH: [|//http://www.genochoice.com///] //the RYT Hospital at Dwayne Medical Center. My first question regarding the site would be where is Dwayne Medical Center located? Where are Elizabeth Preatner's medical degrees from? Why aren't there other links to different medical sites on this site's homepage? Where is there a Contact Us feature which allows a user to ask questions or comments to a site supervisor? There are no statistical facts on this site. There is no link or symbol that would show that this center is provided by the FDA. There is no written text with facts about genochoice. It is on a video. Not only is this not accessible for the deaf, but it offers no evidence as to the success of genochoice; it is very subjective. Students should look for the validity of a site before using its information. Other links on a site can be very informative as to a site's validity. For example, if reputable med schools and the fda had links on this site I might be more inclined to believe it. Also, if it is a medical site proclaiming a cure, look for and analyze its research to see if it seems valid. Finally, not have any contact information for the institution where questions and comments can be directed is another warning sign that a site should not be taken as the absolute truth.//

At fisrt glance this site looked reputible but upon further investigation I found that it was not valad. I followe our rubric and answered assessed the site. Below you will find my resutls. I rate the site as unreliable and not valid: Trash!
 * 1) The extensions in the address could not be followed.
 * 2) The links coming in and out looked reputable but are vague. There was not email address to contact them. I could not find the Drs. credentials or where the medical site was located.
 * 3) It was last updated in 2005, so it is not current.
 * 4) Objectivity: medical research and treatment.
 * 5) Accessibility. Several links to use but n o depth of information. Could not access any reseach data.
 * 6) Purpose of the site. Possibly to show artists web design.
 * 7) Cross checked Google, Snoops and Yahoo. Genochoice was also a bogus name as verified on Google.

To help my students use better searching methods, Iwould show them some bogus sites so they would see first hand that these really do exist on the web. Then I would do with them just as you have done with us and give them some sites along with a rubric that we had dicussed. From there they could begin getting experience evaluating different sites.