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Hints for Exercise 5: Find quality Web sites & find and transfer an image

Exercise 5 You want to give your client a list of quality Web sites for managing pain in osteoarthritis. a) Find 3-5 good sites. In your Word document, list their titles, their complete URLs, and write a short comment about each. b) Find a good image that illustrates osteoarthritis; add it to your Word document and credit its source.

Hints for Exercise 5

1. To find quality Web sites (part (a) of the exercise) -- If you are a bit unsure about how to evaluate and select Web sites for quality, review these guidelines:

Evaluating Internet Resources presents questions to ask to determine whether information presented by a Web page meets those criteria.

Some "tricks" to use in evaluating Web sites
1. Frequently, authors of Web pages include a date to indicate when the page was last updated; they are usually on the bottom of the page, so scroll down and look.

2. Examine the domain name carefully. Usually, but not always, domain names in the U.S. that end in .com are commercial, those that end in .gov are governmental, .edu is for educational institutions, and .org is for nonprofits and other organizations.

3. Frequently (but not always), a tilde (the symbol ~) prior to a file name indicates that it is someone's personal Web page. Some places on the Web are in the business of hosting personal Web pages for free, or as a part of membership. When a domain name has geocities, angelfire, tripod, or aol in it, the Web page is a personal one.

4. If a site has a long file name, try taking off the last part of the URL to see the Web page or site to which it is attached.

5. If you are puzzled about who might own a domain name, you can go to to a WHOIS database and find out.

6. You might explore Evaluating Web Sites

Go to your Word document. List the titles of the quality Web sites you have found, include their complete URLs, and write a short comment about each.

2. To find a good image that illustrates osteoarthritis (part (b) of the exercise) -- You can use Google's image database, or use

Select an image. Then
1. Right click on the image; scroll down to Copy

2. Go to your Word document. Position your cursor to where you want your image to be. Paste the picture (File -> Paste; or, use Ctl V)

3. Under (or near) the image, type the word Source and include the title of the Web site where the image came from, and its URL.

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