What is Web Literacy?

Web literacy is the ability to use the internet effectively and responsibly. It includes knowing how to find reliable information, navigate websites, and understand how digital content works. Web literacy also involves understanding online safety and how to protect your privacy. It's an important skill for being smart and safe while using the web. I will use the website national geographic and determine if this source is credible, transparent, and trustworthy.

NationalGeographic.com 

Transparency

National Geographic makes sure to source its information with most of its info coming from the scientist themselves.  

Credibility

National Geographic is a .com website however it is a pretty credible source. The people producing the articles are peer reviewed scientists that are experts in their fields. 

Trustworthiness

Again, branching off of the credibility, these people are scientists that have taken the time to become experts in the fields they report on. From history to the depths of the ocean National geographic provides factual evidence to support its claims. 

Reputation

 National Geographic has been creating articles since 1888. Since then, it has been known to be an outlet for history and science since then. With world expert level, peer reviewed scientist on their side this is a very easy source to call trustworthy, credible, and transparent.

Welcome

The skill of analyzing websites for their credibility, transparency, and trustworthiness is a skill that all people should have. This skill allows for you to know who and what to believe and when. When you analyze a source, it could be for many reasons; research projects, proving you're SO wrong, creating a presentation, fact checking a source from a social media post, options are endless. To be able to create a factual piece of information you have to have sources that hold up a certain amount of credibility. 

My strong suit in this skill is to analyze quickly, by looking at the URL it's easy to quickly determine if this source could be factual. .org, .edu are two easy factors in first determining the credibility. the skill that I struggle with is when I have a source that is extremely biased especially if it's going my way. Sometimes the sources truly are too good to be true!