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Evaluating Websites

Evaluating Websites. How Do You Know if that Web Page. ADDs UP?. A Basic Web Page. Anatomy of a URL. The name of the server where the web page is stored. This is also called the domain name. The folder on the server in which the page is stored. The name of the individual web page.

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Evaluating Websites

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  1. Evaluating Websites How Do You Know if that Web Page ADDs UP?

  2. A Basic Web Page

  3. Anatomy of a URL The name of the server where the web page is stored. This is also called the domain name. The folder on the server in which the page is stored. The name of the individual web page.

  4. Try This Onehttp://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/lasc/hd_lasc.htm

  5. What’s the What • On a server called www.metmuseum.org • There is a folder called toah in which there is • A folder called hd in which there is • A folder called lasc in which there is • A document called hd_lasc.htm

  6. What Can We Learn from a URL? • What serverhosts the page • Evidence that it is a personal page a name followed by a ~ or a % the word members or people in the URL the word blog in the URL • What kind of domain it is from College or university: .edu The government or military: .gov or .mil A nonprofit organization: .org A network: .net A commercial organization: .com

  7. Thinking about Web SitesQuestoning URLs • Do you recognize the domain? • Does this domain make sense for the content of the page? • If it is a personal page, is the author qualified to give this information? Is the information biased? • If it is a .com, .net or .org, remember anyone can get one of these pages. Why should you trust this information?

  8. What can we tell about this website?http://www.msu.edu/~cloudsar/nrweb.htm

  9. Does that Web Site A is for Author D is for Documentation D is for Date U is for Use by others P is for Purpose ADD UP?

  10. Authors Should Be • Clearly stated with contact information available • you may need to go back to the homepage to determine this • may be an individual or an organization • Qualified to provide information on the content of the website

  11. Documentation Should Be Provided • bibliographies, references, notes, or other citations that let you know where the author got this information • links to other sites should be relevant and work correctly

  12. Dates Should Be… • Appropriate for the time sensitiveness of the topic you are researching. • Available for any kind of statistic. If a statistic does not have a date, don’t use it.

  13. Use by others • Do a Google links search to see who links to this site • Are there plenty of links? • Are links from .edu and .org sites?

  14. Purpose • Clear • easily determined • may have to return to homepage to find • Is the purpose to • Inform? • Persuade? • Sell? • Humor? • Is there a hidden agenda?

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