Web Literacy Lesson: Who Said That?

1. Web Literacy Lesson: Who Said That? Students complete a tutorial on Web literacy and use what they learn to evaluate a Web site.

2. Lesson Format • Discussion in whole group • Work in groups • Post evaluation

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4. Five Elements for Evaluating a Website • Author • Purpose • Accuracy • Easy to USE • Appropriate

5. Let’s explore a website and check for the author? Purpose? Accurate? Easy to Use? Appropriate? • http://www.aldokkan.com/science/metallurgy.htm

6. What is the Purpose of the Website • What is the site designed to do? • Persuade (promote an idea) • Inform (give information) • Entertain (socialize and play games) • Sell (products or supply ad space) • When was the site made or updated? • Some information is prone to changing more than others. • Historical information tends to be the same from day to day. • Scientific or statistical information tends to change.

7. Cool Science for Curious Kids • Cool Science for Curious Kids • Dole 5 A Day

8. What is the PURPOSE of this website? • Persuade • Inform • Entertain • Sell

9. What is the PURPOSE of this website? Persuade Inform Entertain Sell

10. What is the PURPOSE of this website? • Persuade • Inform • Entertain • Sell

11. What is the PURPOSE of this website? • Persuade • Inform • Entertain • Sell

12. Interactive Evaluation Form • http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=175&title=

13. Author • a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist

14. Purpose • the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc

15. Accuracy • the condition or quality of being true, correct, or exact; freedom from error or defect; precision or exactness; correctness

16. Easy to Use • More efficient to use—takes less time to accomplish a particular task

17. Appropriate • suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.