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Website Evaluations

Website Evaluations. Good stuff vs Bad stuff History. Question…. Publishers of many great books include Penguin, HarperCollins, Bantam, etc. Name a publisher for Internet material. Answer…. Anyone can publish anything to the Internet. We can all be publishers.

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Website Evaluations

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  1. Website Evaluations Good stuff vs Bad stuff History

  2. Question… Publishers of many great books include Penguin, HarperCollins, Bantam, etc. Name a publisher for Internet material.

  3. Answer… • Anyone can publish anything to the Internet. We can all be publishers. • That’s a good thing…that’s a bad thing. Why? -good…you can find anything on the Internet -bad…people can publish falsehoods or unreliable information.

  4. Your responsibility… • To ensure that all the resources you use are reliable/reputable, including web resources • To be critical about who is telling you what. To question. To think, think, think.

  5. Question… • How do you search for material on the Internet? What search tool do you use? Answer: probably Google

  6. Check this out… Sites on “women aids facts” Site #1Reliable? Site #2Reliable? Now plug in a Google search for “women aids facts” Look at the hits

  7. Google ain’t God • Although Google is a good search engine, it does NOT sift through the Internet and provide only “good” sites. That job is yours!

  8. How to Evaluate Websites…How do I know if a website is reliable or not? Answer: it’s not easy. Many websites are made to look really good, and they do fool us. - Do the best you can using some or all of the following indicators…

  9. Check the URL • Is it someone’s personal page? (look for ~ or % or “users” or “members”) • domain .com (commercial) .gov (government) .net (network infrastructure) .org (organization) .edu (education) Is the domain appropriate for the content?

  10. Who is responsible for the site? • Is there an author? • Can I contact the author with an e-mail address or phone number provided? • Is the author an authority in the subject? What are his credentials? Is he controversial? • Is there a sponsor for the site? Reputable? NOTE: you may have to truncate back to home page to find the author or check for an “about us” button (or something like that). • You should look up the author in Google

  11. Why is the site on the Net?? • To give information, to instruct • To sell us something (to make money) • To persuade us - Is it free of bias??

  12. Dated?? • When was the page/site published or last updated? • Should be able to find this info. at top or bottom of page. • May have to truncate back to find it • Is the date current enough? • If no date is found, should you trust the site?

  13. Links… • Are the links on the page appropriate for the subject? • Do they all work (are they up to date) or are they dead links? • Who links to the page/site you are using (using Google, search “link: type the URL”

  14. Is information altered? • Is information a primary source available via PDF? • Is information summarized or re-typed by author? Is it reputable? • If so, why? • Has it been altered? • Are there errors?

  15. Quality of Information • Is the information given useful, valuable, worth having? • Is the info. Detailed and in-depth

  16. What has been on the site in the past? What did it look like? • Check the content of the site from months or years ago - Has it always been reliable? Has it changed recently…for the worse? • Use “Way Back Machine” to investigate example: tsn.ca (look at first pages) sportsnet.ca

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