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Evaluating Websites: Essential Criteria for Quality and Credibility

This guide explores critical criteria for evaluating websites, focusing on purpose, authority, objectivity, currency, clarity, and accessibility. It highlights the types of purposes websites serve, such as commercial, educational, or persuasive. The importance of author credibility and the potential for bias are discussed, alongside tips for assessing the currency of information and ensuring that content is presented clearly and accessibly. Key domain name suffixes are explained to help identify the nature of a site. This resource is vital for anyone looking to navigate the vast landscape of online information effectively.

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Evaluating Websites: Essential Criteria for Quality and Credibility

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  1. Evaluating Web Sites Casting light on the World Wide Web

  2. Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites • Purpose • Authority • Objectivity • Currency • Clarity • Accessibility

  3. Purpose • Commercial • Informative • Educational • Entertainment • Persuasive • Personal • Institutional

  4. Domain Name Suffixes • .com = commercial site • .net =Internet service provider • .edu = higher education • .org=charitable, religious, or lobbying organization

  5. .gov= government agency • .mil = military • ~ = personal site http://pirate.shu.edu/~skeelero/ • country codes such as .uk and .nz

  6. Authority • Who is the author? • What are the author’s credentials? • Is there a way to contact the author? • Is there an organizational or corporate sponsor? http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/llowry.html

  7. Objectivity • Does the content reflect an explicit or hidden bias? • Does the identity of the author or sponsor suggest a bias? • If there is a bias, how does it impact on the usefulness of the information?

  8. Currency • Is the information up-to-date? • When was the page last updated? • Are there dead links? • www.nytimes.com

  9. Clarity/Accessibility • Is the information clearly presented? • Is the text neat, legible, and easy to read? • Are there mistakes in spelling and grammar? • Does it load quickly? Is it easy to navigate?

  10. Creating a Secure Password • Think of an easy-to-remember phrase My team wonfirst place atbiopardy • Make a Mnemonic mt1fp@b

  11. Site Evaluation • www.genochoice.com • Huckleberry Finn • http://www.alexa.com

  12. The End! • PowerPoint presentation created by Ms. Balsamo

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