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EVALUATING WEBSITES
• Critically evaluate websites using set criteria
• Think creatively about information found
online
• Analyse and evaluate information
effectively
WHY?
• What is the purpose of a website?
•
•
•
•

inform
sell
persuade
entertain

• How might this affect the information on the
website?
• bias
• misinformation
• unreliability
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/
• Work through the tutorial – this should take 10 -15 minutes
• Using a table in Word, design an evaluation grid for
websites, using the criteria from the tutorial
NOW HAVE A LOOK AT THESE…
Critically evaluate these websites using the criteria you
have designed
• http://fdxnewsonline.com/health/index11724.php
• http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime/violence-againstwomen-girls/teenage-relationship-abuse/
• www.rythospital.com
• www.geoffbarton.co.uk

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2. evaluating websites

  • 1. EVALUATING WEBSITES • Critically evaluate websites using set criteria • Think creatively about information found online • Analyse and evaluate information effectively
  • 2. WHY? • What is the purpose of a website? • • • • inform sell persuade entertain • How might this affect the information on the website? • bias • misinformation • unreliability
  • 3. http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/ • Work through the tutorial – this should take 10 -15 minutes • Using a table in Word, design an evaluation grid for websites, using the criteria from the tutorial
  • 4. NOW HAVE A LOOK AT THESE… Critically evaluate these websites using the criteria you have designed • http://fdxnewsonline.com/health/index11724.php • http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime/violence-againstwomen-girls/teenage-relationship-abuse/ • www.rythospital.com • www.geoffbarton.co.uk