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Information Fluency

How to determine whether a website is reliable or not

-If the webpage is a “.org”

-Check if there’s a date

-If you can contact or find the author

http://web.a.ebscohost.com/pov/detail/detail?sid=379a7a00-25b7-4f49-8a0a-7107fba985f1%40sessionmgr4007&vid=1&hid=4204&bdata=Jmxhbmc9ZW4tY2Emc2l0ZT1wb3YtY2Fu#AN=28674778&db=p3h

To get to this URL, first you have to go onto the riverside home page, select “library”, then log in with your school log on. After that, click the “Click here” button in red. Then go under “EBSCO database” select “Canadian points of view”. Then select “Amazon Deforestation.”

Something I learned from this class was how to know and figure out if a webpage is trustworthy.

The Sea Devil: Comic strip

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“In front of him, the bay stretched dark and silent.”

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“He liked to go casting at night.”

"He took the net from the bucket, slipped the noose in the retrieving rope over his wrists."

“He took the net from the bucket, slipped the noose in the retrieving rope over his wrists.”

"He felt the net quiver, and knew it was not empty. He swung it dripping over the gunwale, saw the broad silver side of the mullet quivering, saw too the gleam of a smaller fish. He looked closely to make sure no stingray was hidden in the mesh."

“He felt the net quiver, and knew it was not empty. He swung it dripping over the gunwale, saw the broad silver side of the mullet quivering, saw too the gleam of a smaller fish. He looked closely to make sure no stingray was hidden in the mesh.”

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“He knew in the split second in which thought was still possible, that those twin swirls had been made not by two mullet, but by the wing tips of th giant ray.”

"He kicked himself backward with his remaining strength and the rope parted and he was free."

“He kicked himself backward with his remaining strength and the rope parted and he was free.”

"He saw the mullet he had just caught, gasping its life away on the floor boards of the skiff."

“He saw the mullet he had just caught, gasping its life away on the floor boards of the skiff.”

"He knew then, he would never do no more casting alone at night."

“He knew then, he would never do no more casting alone at night.”