FINDING HEALTHY INFORMATIONFOOD & FITNESS INSTITUTEHOLY SPIRIT LIBRARYCABRINI COLLEGEApril 19, 2023

AGENDA

Finding reliable information on the Internet

Health, food, and fitness informationRecipes

RELIABLE INFORMATION

Anyone can create a Web page advertise disseminate propaganda fraud

If it’s on the Internet it’s true fact and opinion is mixed just plain wrong biased

Where do you go to find your information?

HOW SEARCH ENGINES WORK

How Search Engines Work Major Search Engines: The Same, But

Different Spiders/Crawlers Find specific sites Index found sites Search the index

Search Engine Ranking Algorithms location/frequency method The same, but different Off page factors (linking)

TYPES OF INFORMATION

.edu (educational) serious university

research student or faculty

member’s homepage.gov (governmental)

government information

reliable.com (commercial)

may be trying to sell a product

.net (network) service for

commercial or individual customers

.org (organizational) usually created by a

nonprofit institution may try to persuade

the reader/ may be biased

ANATOMY OF A URL

http://www.mypyramid.gov/pyramid/vegetables.html the URL Web server: www.mypyramid.gov the path of the document: /pyramid the file containing the document:

vegetables.html

FIVE CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING A WEB PAGE

AuthorityAccuracy/ObjectivityCurrencyAudienceScope/Purpose

Organization?

HEALTH, FOOD, AND FITNESS

Health Information http://health.nih.gov/search.asp/24 http://www.mypyramid.gov/professionals/ http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/ http://health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/basal/basal.ht

ml Food

http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/ http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/foodlab.html Activity http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/flquiz1.html

Fitness http://kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?

dn=wellercenter&ps=203&lic=127&cat_id=20518#Exercise_&_Sports

http://www.ymca.net/programs/programs_for_health_and_fitness.html

SCAVENGER HUNT

SCAVENGER HUNT RULES Highest score wins First team finished gets an extra point Any strategy works No sabotage

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