Media Literacy- Who can be trusted?

When searching information online it is important to make sure that you are looking at a reliable source. There are a lot of people out there who make up things or don't know what they are talking about and will put their information out on the web. You must be careful in choosing where to get your information.

Today in class to start us in on internet searching we participated in a Google a day ,  http://agoogleaday.com/#game=started, which is a game from google where you must search the internet for the answer to the question asked. It was very frustrating because we would think we have found an answer but then we would really have to search deeper. We learned that one of the best ways to search things on the internet is to type in key words of your topic. 

Accuracy, authenticity, and reliability are all qualities a website needs inorder to trust it's information. Accuracy is the percision and the exactness of what the website is saying. Authenticity is when the person behind the website is truely doing what he or she has said they would; doing what they set out to do. Percision is being definite in their statements. The website about the Pacific Northwest tree octopus, http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ , is a hoax site.

 Although it looks to be professional and credible the information given is not true at all. In fact there is no such thing as the Pacific Northwest tree octopus. Aside with looking for accuracy, authenticity, and precision, while searching the web you need to look at the makers credibility. If it is someone well known and trusted then chances are it is a good website but if it is some you have never heard of then not everything may be correct.