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1. Slide 1: Criteria for web site evaluation © Oksana Hlodan, 2007
2. Slide 2: Evaluation focus on content: • quality • credibility • usability
3. Slide 3: • Who? • What? • When? • Where? • Why?
4. Slide 4: Who? • Who wrote the page? • What are the author’s credentials? • Is the author’s bio provided? • If not, can I find it? (e.g., link)
5. Slide 5: Who? About Us: “… since we are after all a grass roots and ad hoc undertaking by an all-volunteer consortium, to…”
6. Slide 6: Who?
7. Slide 7: What? • What is the purpose? • Is it first or second-hand info? • Is content vetted? • Are sources/facts documented? • Is the science accurate? • Do links lead to quality pages?
8. Slide 8: What? Please note: I didn’t write this stuff, I received the contents of this page on a floppy disc sometime in 1996. (Science Made Stupid web site)
9. Slide 9: What?
10. Slide 10: When? • When was it created? • When was it last updated? • Do broken links get fixed/updated?
11. Slide 11: When? Sizing up genomes: Amoeba is king By Edward R. Winstead February 12, 2001, Genome News Network
12. Slide 12: Where? • Where is “about us”? • Is sponsorship reputable? • Do others link to the site? • Do they endorse the site?
13. Slide 13: Where?
14. Slide 14: Where? About the Center “Access Excellence has been rated by School Zone’s panel of 400 teachers.”
15. Slide 15: Where?
16. Slide 16: Why? • Why should I use this info? • Why is this site/page better than another? • Why should I verify the info on other sites?
17. Slide 17: Why?
18. Slide 18: Why encourage students to evaluate web sites?
19. Slide 19: Number of web sites: 100,000,000 over Netcraft, Nov. 2006
20. Slide 20: A recent study revealed that fewer than 10% of students check accuracy of online information. University of Connecticut and Clemson University, 2005
21. Slide 21: Internet evaluation skills = scientific research skills!
22. Slide 22: Internet research skills = scientific research skills • Questioning • Synthesizing • Planning • Evaluating • Reporting • Gathering • Sorting
23. Slide 23: Student Activity Distribute evaluation worksheets to students Pick a newsy issue, e.g., GM corn, for their searches Have students search different domans: com, edu, org, gov Discuss evaluation results with class
24. Slide 24: Resources • Kathy Shrock’s Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html • Purdue University Tutorial http://www.lib.purdue.edu/ugrl/staff/sharkey/interneteval/ • Widener University Tutorial & Excercises http://www3.widener.edu/Academics/Libraries/Wolfgram_Memoria • Web Evaluation by Pam Berger http://www.infosearcher.com/infosearcher/articles/evaluatingweb1