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Critical Thinking On your way to become Information Literate. Evaluating websites. There are 3 elements we should consider. Credibility. Content. Technical. Credibility. Identifies the country. Identifies the filenames and the path of the files.
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Evaluating websites There are 3 elements we should consider . . . Credibility Content Technical
Credibility Identifies the country Identifies the filenames and the path of the files Identifies the Christchurch College of Education Identifies the protocol - http is a webpage Identifies the domain as an academic institution Identifies the file type Examine the URL - Uniform Resource Locator http://www.cce.ac.nz/teachered/secondary/graddip.html
Credibility • What the URL can tell you • What is the domain? • Government and military (.govt .gov .mil) • Commercial (.co .com) • Education (.ac .edu .k12 .school) • Network providers (.net) • Organisations - non-profit (.org) • International treaty organisations (.int) • Country (.nz .au .us .uk .ca .jp .za ue.)
Credibility • What the URL can tell you . . . • Who published the page? • www.zu.ac.ae/ • http://www.uae.gov.ae/moia.htm • http://www.etisalat.co.ae/index2.htm • www.globalnet.org.nz/ • www.fno.org • webtips.dantobias.com (Zayed University) (Ministry of Islamic Affairs) (Etisalat = company) (Globalnet = organization) (From Now On) (Individual)
Credibilaty • When was the site updated? Is this important to the content? • Is the information authentic? Can you check the authenticity elsewhere? • Can you email the webmaster? • Is the information well documented? • Credible journals? • Credible organisations?
Content
Content • Does the information add to the body of knowledge about the topic? • Does the material provide information not readily available? • Does the site contain original work or primary source material?
Technical
Technical