Information Fluency

3 strategies for determining how reliable a webpage’s info is :

  • Check if they have a “Contact Us” and if so, proceed further and check if it is valid
  • See if the website has “https” for safe purchasing or guarding of information
  • Check other peoples reviews to see if they mention the site being fake or if the website has any scams

Library database – http://think.galegroup.com/ic/gic/?p=GIC&u=43riss

  1. Go to the riverside home page.
  2. Click on “Library” in the grey bar.
  3. Enter school account and password.
  4. Click the thing red text that says “Click Here” in the photo with the text “To access all of our library resources, catalogs and databases.
  5. Then enter in school account and password if needed again.
  6. Click the “Global issues in context” tab under Gale databases
  7. Enter the password “student”.
  8. And there you have your database.

I learned that the school online websites has tons of information to use and receive. Also, I learned how to identify which websites are fake and which are not.