1. What’s in a (website) name?
Decoding a URL address
Source: Where Am I, Anyway?

2. 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
th St SW
Edmonds, WA
A URL gives the same type of information

3. 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

4. What the abbreviations stand for:
commercial
organization
education
government
network
information
biz (business)
tv (television)
canada
uk (United Kingdom)

5. 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?

6. 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.