Reflection 5

This weeks project was very interesting. Dissecting the structure of a website was very interesting. The website I chose is WWW.Allaboutexplorers.com. Allaboutexplorers.com is the domain name the extension in the domain name is .com. From this point I could tell the website was going to have something to do with explorers from our history. The site was very interesting to me because I teach history and it seems to be something that can be used to help my students. There are links on the website, the first one I came across is WWW.wordpress.org and the other link is WWW.columbus.org. The purpose of the wordpress link was to promote their company. It is a website that can be used to create templates and the allaboutexplorers website was actually created with wordpress. The second link, Columbus.org was listed as a website to stay away from, allaboutexplorers is trying to keep people away from using the site. Using Google, Yahoo, and Ask.com i got plenty of hits by searching the main topic all about explorers. To my surprise, the website I chose was the first link presented each time. That told me that the site had to be a pretty good one. When finding out who the website was registered with it came up as being registered with Fast Domain INC and the providers name is HostMonster.com. The site was created by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. They created this site because they wanted to teach their students how to filter good data from bad data when they are using the Internet. This site has some good credibility, It's created by teachers and they have been published and use in media as well. The purpose of this site is to teach students how to filter information on the Internet. That is a tool that we have to teach our students today with the Internet being so big in today's society. Some students believe that anything that comes from the Internet is true and that is not the case. This is a constant problem in students academic work today and we have to make sure as educators that we teach students that all information from the Internet is not right, we have to let students know they cannot use all data found on the Internet when completing academic work. This website presents information and can be used for educational purposes. I found the site to be reliable based on my findings. This was a fun project and it was really interesting to dissect a website.