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The Internet Detective tutorial
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Internet Detective is a new Web-based, interactive tutorial that aims
to teach the skills required to evaluate the quality of information
found on the Internet. Developed at the Institute for Learning and
Research Technology, University of Bristol with funding from the
European Union, the tutorial is free and self-paced, with a serious
message but a light-hearted approach.
Internet Detective aims to get people started on the Case of
Questionable Quality! It encourages people to start thinking like a
detective when using the Internet and to:
* look for clues
* ask questions
* consider the motives of people publishing on the Internet
* trust nobody - until you have found good cause to do so!
The tutorial offers practical hints and tips for evaluating
information quality, including sections on:
* orientation within a Web site
* getting clues from URLs
* identifying the type of information resource you are looking at
* using quality criteria to evaluate an Internet resource
Internet Detective is interactive with quizzes scattered throughout
and with a "Try it Yourself" section at the end, where users are asked
to evaluate an electronic journal, a mailing list and a subject-based
Web site. The tutorial users the TONIC-ng software developed and used
by staff at Netskills at the University of Newcastle. It may take a
couple of hours to work through, but users can use their personal
login name to return to the exact point at which they last left off
and therefore complete the tutorial over a number of sittings.
Internet Detective is freely available from the following URL:
http://sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html
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