1. Report:
I decided to do this report in order to validate a site referring to a specific topic.
The mechanism to do that is to find about the author’s background, the
website’s information and also to find if the references are reliable.
The webpage title is Howard Gardner, multiple intelligences and education.
The URL of the website http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm can tell us
that is it an organization. It does not have commercial purposes because it was
made for non-commercial purposes only to share information between
educators ant it public and free to all. Therefore, you cannot see ads. It was
created by a group of educators at College George Williams located in London.
The site is offered by the College as a service to the field and is run on a not-
for-profit basis. . The site carries no advertising, nor do any of the editorial links
to other sites involve sponsorship or payment. It is endorsed by various sites
and has won commendations from organizations like Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Adult Learning Australia, the Study Web and Schoolzone. They are part of the
new British Library archiving project and a number of the pages are included on
the UNESCO/NCVER voced database and on SOSIG (the Social Science
Information Gateway). Thousands of sites link to the website such as BBC,
Channel 4, The Guardian and various educational institutions - for example:
Harvard, MIT, and the Open University. The objective o this website is to offer a
space for people to explore the theory and practice of informal education, social
action and lifelong learning.
.The author of the article, Mark k. Smith, in the site is reliable. Although you can
not contact him or see his profile from the site, you can open a link that has
information about him but it was removed. The author’s background is validated
in many pages such as linkedin.com. The references that are used in the page
are reliable because they refer to books written by credited writers and
psychologists. It is an updated page the last time it was updated was in on
Tuesday, 29 of may of 2012 at 04:56:52 a.m. If you want to comment on
something, or follow them you can do it by Twitter, Facebook or send them an
e-mail.
2. Conclusion:
:I think that the webpage is reliable because the writers are well- known and thy
do not have purposes than to teach and to learn from the others. It was created
by a college that you can validated seaching on the web. The article has
coherence and accuracy.
