Web+Literacy

== = = =Web Literacy=

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Grammar of the World Wide Web
(Information from Alan November - see website below)


 * URL** - the address of a website
 * http:** //-// the beginning of the protocol, many times followed by www.; what we're used to seeing and usually ignore
 * https:** - a secured site; make sure you see this whenever you are giving personal info or buying online


 * Component 1:** nike.; cnn.; nfl.; nasa.; travel.
 * Component 2:** .k12; .com; .edu; .ac; .mil; .org; .net
 * Component 3:** Country codes such as .au - Australia ; .ca - Canada; .cn - China; .de - Germany; .fr - France; .il - Israel; .jp; .uk - England; .us - United States

Website owner/publisher
Real or Unreal?
 * [|Mechanical Marvels]
 * [|California Velcro Crop]
 * [|Save the Tree Octupus]
 * [|Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]
 * Google Bombing

[|Easy Who Is] [|Who Is Source]

Website history or retrieval
[|archive.org - The Wayback Machine]

[|Internet Literacy courses]

Search Engines
[|Google] [|Alta Vista] [|Ask.com] [|Quintura for Kids] [|Quintura] [|Kartoo]

Meta Searching
[|Dogpile] [|Clusty]

Web Literacy Quiz and Answers
(adapted from Alan November)