Monday, January 4, 2010

RTY Hospital: Dwayne Medical Center

Objective: Students will be able to find the validity of websites after navigating through the site www.rythospital.com. Sutdents will learn to check the validity of websites (like Dwayne Medical Center's website) by using search engines to support the reliability of a website.

Activity and Procedure:
1. Start by going to the website www.rythospital.com.
2. Next answer the below questions by exploring the above website, and using the search engines, www.yahooligan.com, www.google.com, and www.ajforkids.com.

a) What are NanoDocs? Find one other website
that explains and supports the information given about NanoDocs on the Dwayne Medical Center's website.

b) Locate the address of Dwayne Medical Center using www.maps.google.com or the other search engines above.

c)
After locating the Dwayne University Medical College (a Dwayne Medical Center affiliate) website, find support of the research being completed at the university for the medical center.

Results:
a) There is no discussion of NanoDocs that supports the actual use of NanoDocs at any hospital. There are sites that discuss the use of NanoDocs (that have yet to be invented) in the future, but there is no evidence to support the actual use of NanoDocs.

b)When Dwayne Medical Center's address was searched, there was no conclusive information on an address or even location on a map for the center.

c)Using the search engines above, there was no information found on the Dwayne University Medical College. There was no website for the college or mention that it even exists. Thus there is no research being done at the nonexistent university for the medical center.

With the above information, students should conclude that the RTY Hospital: Dwayne Medical Center does not exist and therefore the website for the hospital is not a valid source of information and should not be used to site information from.