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Website Evaluation

Website Evaluation. Mrs. Lane 9CP. Techniques. Train your eye and your fingers to help you find quickly what you want Train your mind to think critically and suspiciously Ask questions!. What a URL tells you?. Is it a personal page? Is it a commercial site? (like aol.com, geocities.com)

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Website Evaluation

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  1. Website Evaluation Mrs. Lane 9CP

  2. Techniques • Train your eye and your fingers to help you find quickly what you want • Train your mind to think critically and suspiciously • Ask questions!

  3. What a URL tells you? • Is it a personal page? • Is it a commercial site? (like aol.com, geocities.com) • What type of domain does it come from? • Government (gov, mil, us) • Education (edu) • Nonprofit (org) • Is it published by an entity that makes sense?

  4. Scanning the page! • Look for about us, philosophy, background, biography, who I am… • Ask: • Who wrote this page? • What is the purpose? • Is the page dated? Current? • What are the author’s credentials?

  5. Indicators of quality info • Look for links, additional sites, related links • Ask: • Are sources documented? • If information is reproduced is it complete? Altered? Fake? Or Forged? • Are there links to other resources?

  6. Does it all add up? • Why was the page put on the web? • To inform? • Explain or persuade? • Sell? • Share? • Disclose? • Satire? Parody? • Bias?

  7. Let’s take a look! • http://www.buzzle.com/articles/romanticism-characteristics-of-romanticism.html • http://www.carnicom.com/contrails.htm • http://educate-yourself.org/ct/ • http://www.dhmo.org/research.html • http://www.pinknoiz.com/coldwar/index.html • http://www.thedogisland.com/ • http://www.worldtoilet.org/

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