3 strategies to determine if info from a website is reliable:
- Does site look professional? : Does site have a modern/clean design or are objects scattered across the site?
- Do the links/animations work? : Are links on the site broken? Do animations/embedded objects load?
- Do other sites have conflicting information? : Does the information on the site agree with info from other sites?
URL of a publication:
http://web.b.ebscohost.com/pov/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=7fad83fa-8359-4f9a-8a89-4893ba90989e%40sessionmgr106&hid=101&bdata=Jmxhbmc9ZW4tY2Emc2l0ZT1wb3YtY2Fu#AN=28674770&db=p3h
Instructions on how to get there:
- Go to your Riverside homepage bookmark
- Click library tab
- Scroll down and click “Click Here!”
- Under Ebsco Databases, click “Canadian Points of View”
- Use username: riversiderapids password: library to logon
- Search electricity
- Click “Alternative Energy Exploration: An Overview.”
- Or simply just click here
A thing I learned:
Today I learned that the internet is a vast database of information and can be used extensively for research and not just entertainment.