Information Literacy

These assignments will teach you to be intelligent users of the Internet.

First you will learn about the school's
Acceptable Use and Internet Safety Policy.

Download into MS Word the file "Internet Safety" by clicking here.
After the PowerPoint presentation, answer the first question

and save this file in your own folder.
 Absent?  Read the "Online Safety" section at the back of your Agenda Book,
then click
here for the "problem."

After the second PowerPoint presentation, answer the next questions and print your work.
Absent?  Miss the PowerPoint presentation?
Click
here to see the presentation you missed in class.

Next you will learn how to
Evaluate Web Pages.

First, open the "Internet Safety" file you saved in your folder.
After the first part of the PowerPoint presentation,
answer the second question on this page.

When the presentation is over,
download into MS Word the file "Evaluating Web Pages" by clicking here.
Use these links to get to the two web pages you will evaluate:
The National Anti-Vivisecton Society
and
No Smoke Software
 

If you need to complete this project after school in the library,
save this file in your own folder.

Good Luck!

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