Transcript Slide 1

What’s in a (website)
name?
Decoding a URL address
Source: http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/docs/lesson4.ppt#270,2,So, Where Am I, Anyway?
Where do you live?

Where are you right now?
– Maplewood K-8

How would a stranger know how to find
Maplewood?
– You’d give him the address
 8500 200th St SW
 Edmonds, WA 98026

A URL gives the same type of information
Where the URL address take you

The suffix (.____)
tells you the type of
site you are visiting.
Sometimes it tells the
country where the
website publisher is
located.
.com
.org
.edu
.gov
.net
info
.biz
.tv
.ca
.uk
What the abbreviations stand for:










commercial
organization
education
government
network
information
biz (business)
tv (television)
canada
uk (United Kingdom)
What makes a reliable website?
Who wrote/published the site? Are they a
reliable authority?
 What does the author/publisher have to
say about the site? Is it biased?
 When was the site created and/or last
updated?
 Where does the information come from?

Now it’s your turn

Each member of your group will select a
site that you found during your Search
Engine exploration of your topic and
complete the Website Evaluation form.