Zapato Productions

Kunal Mishra

Objective: Determine the validity of this website by navigating through zapatopi.net and see if the information on the website has any factual based evidence for it's claims. Use search engines such as google.com and bing.com to cross-reference information displayed on the website.

Activities and Procedures:
1. Go to website zapatopi.net
2. Choose one of the pages on the website to evaluate, either the page about the 'Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus' (http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/) or the page about the author of the website (http://zapatopi.net/zapato/)
3. Answer the following questions based on your findings:
    a. Are the credentials of the author 'Lyle Zapato' valid?
    b. What does a biology expert or an accredited biology professor from Rutgers have to say about the existence of the 'Pacific Tree Octopus'?
    c. What valid information is out there on the web about Kelvinic Univeristy? Use one of the search engines mentioned above to cross-check your findings.


Purpose/Goals of this Activity: This activity should enable users to be able to tell right away when a information from a website seems invalid or not backed up by factual evidence. This activity would be useful for younger students who have just learned about how to use and navigate the world wide web. It would show younger students and anyone who does not frequently use the internet that you can't trust all the information you come across and why you must always question the validity all a website's references.