Internet Search Challenge

Retrieving the information you need from the Internet can be challenging. Internet Search Challenges provide practice and demonstrate techniques to improve your search results and find credible information. This blog introduces new challenges, discusses the difficulties and how they may be overcome.

Showing posts with label investigation. Show all posts

Showing posts with label investigation. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Find the Author's Name

Tracking down an author's name online can be a tough assignment. Let's say you want to reference a story about Polly the Polar B...

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Coronavirus Fake News

China Coronavirus When life gets scary, it's important to think twice about information. The outbreak of the coronavirus is a go...

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Author Detective

Introducing the third revision in our series of Investigative Searching tutorials: AUTHOR. No need to rely on the old Flash files any lo...

Monday, December 12, 2016

Being skeptical about information literacy

Students born in the digital age appear to be seriously challenged by a lack of discernment. I know this smacks of personal bias. But th...

Sunday, May 15, 2016

The High Cost of Trust

Trusting information turned tragic when Wei Zexi, from Shaanxi province in China, died on April 12 after undergoing experimental medical ...

Friday, October 17, 2014

Email Spam

source: photobucket Information Fluency applies to more than academic research. Here's an example of a spam email that could trip ...

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Finding a Publication Date

Here's a common problem: You find a resource online that you want to cite, but the publication date is missing. The case in question...

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