Media and Information Sources

• Indigenous Knowledge: It is a means by which the

  culture is preserved, handed down and adapted. A unique to a special culture or society, most often it is not written down. The transmission of information is through local channels or forms.
• Indigenous Media: defined as forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and circulated by indigenous peoples around the globe as vehicles for communication.
• Library: a place in which literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials are kept for use but not for sale.
• Types of Library:

  • Academic: serves colleges and universities
  • Public: serves cities and towns
  • School: serves students from kindergarten to grade 12
  • Special: specialized environments.
• Internet: is a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols
• Search Engine: a program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding sites on the World Wide Web.
• Evaluating Information found on the Internet:

  • Authorship
  • Accuracy and verifiability
  • Published body
  • Currency
• Reliability of Information on the Internet:

  • Check the author
  • Check the date of publication or of update
  • Check the captions
  • Check the domain or owner of the site/page.