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What is fake news?
This is the term for content on the internet that is intentionally deceptive and intended to cause the reader to feel a certain way about an issue or person.
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What is Google?
This is the most common search website, and we watched a video to learn more about how to use it.
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What are quotation marks?
Putting this around your Google search terms will get you websites using your exact words.
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Who is Mr. Lobner or Mr. L?
This is my name.
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What is plagiarism?
This is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
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Free Space!
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What is a dash, hyphen or minus sign?
Putting this before a word in a Google search will get you search results that DO NOT include those words.
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What is Mars?
Aliens attack from this planet in the radio play "War of the Worlds."
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What is paraphrasing?
This means putting something you learned into your own words.
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What is Wikipedia?
This is the world's largest online encyclopedia.
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What is "OR."
Putting this in between two words in a search will get you search results including either word.
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What are cookies?
In the Sesame Street video, we learned that the library does not have these items.
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What is common knowledge?
You don't have to cite a source when you're using this kind of information.
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Who is anyone?
This is a person who can edit Wikipedia.
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What is Site:
Adding this to your search will get you search results from a specific web site.
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What is the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus?
This is the "endangered animal" we introduced during the lesson on Fake News.
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What are search operators?
These are the tools you use to improve your Google search.
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What is Snopes?
This is a website someone can use to determine if a story is real or fake news.
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What is the country code?
If you know this, you can search for web sites from a specific country.
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Who is Donatello?
He is the best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
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