This document provides 5 tips for identifying reliable websites: 1) Reliable websites stick to the main topic and have clear aims. 2) Check if information is consistent across multiple websites to determine if it is true. 3) Search engines gather information quickly but don't evaluate reliability, so users must determine what's true. 4) Blogs contain opinions rather than facts and should be avoided for research. 5) Wikipedia can be edited by anyone so information may not always be reliable.

1. Reliable Websites How to sort out the trustworthy sites and the dishonest ones. By: Claudia Chan, Janice Leung and Stephanie Miu.

2. The First Step to Freedom Different websites that you use for homework or other purposes. Teachers provide websites but we want to find websites ourselves. On some websites, people put things on for a laugh, e.g , the moon is made of cheese. / Coca Cola is made of water and brown paint. Here are 5 tips that will help you define reliable websites and frauds.

3. First Tip: Defining Reliable Websites This tip tells you how to define reliable websites. A reliable website sticks to the main point. Say your homework for this week is to research about wolves. If the website you have chosen is talking about things unrelated to wolves, for example, "insects feed on leaves unlike wolves. Insects are tiny creatures that have 6 legs. They feed on leaves"....and so on. That have nothing to do with wolves! It's completely irrelevant! RELIABLE WEBSITES STICK TO THE MAIN IDEA and you should ask yourself, "Are the aims of the site clear?" If your answer is yes, then you found a reliable website.

4. Second Tip: Making sure the stuff you're getting is true The second tip is a very important one. If a website does stick to the main idea and the aims of the site are clear, there is one more question, "Is the information you're getting true?" Many people just find websites that talk about their main subject and jot it down. THAT IS WRONG! You should not do that. If you want to find out if the information you're getting is true, then try going to other websites and see if they have the relevant information. Usually, if the majority of websites have the same information, that information is true. But be warned. Some groups of people create lots of webpages all saying silly stuff. So lots of websites might all say something like,'Caterpillars are actually centipedes'.

5. Third Tip: Search Engines The World Wide Web is huge. That's why we have search engines like Google and Yahoo. Search Engines gather information really quickly from all four corners of the Web. They DO NOT sort out the right information for you! It's up to you to find out whether or not the information's true. Search engines are useful in some ways, but sometimes you have to look for ages before you get your right stuff. So basically, you just sit in front of the computer for hours and hours just flicking through all the 1,957,295,739 webpages that Google finds for you .

6. Fourth Tip: Blogs Blogs are based on people's opinions, not solid fact. Occasionally, there are pieces of facts but not all. Identifying a blog is easy, you will see that there are usually many users at once. If you find information for your homework, do not look at blogs, THEY WILL NOT HELP YOU. All blogs are just points of views. They're biased. You get the idea?

7. Fifth tip: Wikipedia Nearly everytime you search for something like King Henry the Eighth, do you always find Wikipedia up front at the top of the list? Well, don't always trust it. It can be edited by anyone, anytime, at any place. I can handle that, you might think. Some sly foxes in the world can put stuff that look relevant to you but false.

8. Solutions Well, what's the point of us saying all this stuff? We want to prove to our teachers that we can use websites safely! Exactly, I don't always want to rely on our teacher's websites. But what happens if you don't really get what our presentation means? Well good, because on this slide we sum up what we've said. Tip1) If a website sticks to the main idea, it's a reliable website. Tip2) Search for loads of websites then pick out the information that the majority of websites have. Tip3) Search engines gather information quickly but they don't help you sort out the information. Tip4) Blogs are opinions, not facts. Tip5) Don't trust webpages that allow you to edit.

9. Overall... Thank you for watching our presentation. We hope you can find reliable websites easily from now on.