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Evaluating Websites

Evaluating Websites. By now most of you have heard about how you should be cautious in using the general Internet for your class work, and this is true. So we’re not going to bore you by listing and explaining sets of criteria for evaluating Web sites.

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Evaluating Websites

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  1. Evaluating Websites j. forte 2009

  2. By now most of you have heard about how you should be cautious in using the general Internet for your class work, and this is true.

  3. So we’re not going to bore you by listing and explaining sets of criteria for evaluating Web sites.

  4. We’ll guide you with some brief information, link you to some suspicious Web sites, and show you a video or two.

  5. Watch out for the URL! .com Businesses, commercial sites—they want to sell you something. May offer some free information, but usually the best is not free. May skew information to make product more attractive.

  6. Watch out for the URL! .org Hospitals, charitable organizations, non-profits, etc. Many are reputable, but the .ORG’s are the ones you have to evaluate the closest, because anyone can get a .ORG and put forward their own agendas and prejudices.

  7. Watch out for the URL! .edu Schools, colleges, and universities. These are mostly very reliable sites since they have reasonable control from the parent institutions. You will see an increasing amount of open access educational materials coming from these sites.

  8. Watch out for the URL! .gov Web sites of the U.S. Government and state governments. These sites offerplenty of highquality information, especiallystatistical information and policies and procedures.

  9. Watch out for the URL! .mil These are military installations. .net These are mostly Internet service providers.

  10. Evaluating Websites Here are some examples of bogus and biased Web sites. On the Martin Luther King site go to the bottom of the page and click on the responsible organization. Click the BACK button to return to the tutorial. http://www.dhmo.org/ http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ http://martinlutherking.org/

  11. Evaluating Websites Have you guessed what dihydrogen monoxide is? You won’t see a tree octopus on Animal Planet. What is Stormfront?

  12. Evaluating Websites Evaluating Websites (close browser to return to this slide) Who says U-TUBE is not educational!!! Thanks to Cal State Fullerton Here’s a cheesy Elvis one from UCLA

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