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Elevate your online research skills with these essential website evaluation techniques. Learn how to train your eye and fingers for efficient navigation, while honing your mind to think critically and ask the right questions. Discover what a URL reveals about a site, differentiate between types of domains, and identify credible sources. Analyze the information presented by examining authorship, purpose, currency, and credentials. Equip yourself with tools to discern quality information from reliable sites, ensuring your research is accurate and trustworthy.
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Website Evaluation Mrs. Lane 9CP
Techniques • Train your eye and your fingers to help you find quickly what you want • Train your mind to think critically and suspiciously • Ask questions!
What a URL tells you? • Is it a personal page? • Is it a commercial site? (like aol.com, geocities.com) • What type of domain does it come from? • Government (gov, mil, us) • Education (edu) • Nonprofit (org) • Is it published by an entity that makes sense?
Scanning the page! • Look for about us, philosophy, background, biography, who I am… • Ask: • Who wrote this page? • What is the purpose? • Is the page dated? Current? • What are the author’s credentials?
Indicators of quality info • Look for links, additional sites, related links • Ask: • Are sources documented? • If information is reproduced is it complete? Altered? Fake? Or Forged? • Are there links to other resources?
Does it all add up? • Why was the page put on the web? • To inform? • Explain or persuade? • Sell? • Share? • Disclose? • Satire? Parody? • Bias?
Let’s take a look! • http://www.buzzle.com/articles/romanticism-characteristics-of-romanticism.html • http://www.carnicom.com/contrails.htm • http://educate-yourself.org/ct/ • http://www.dhmo.org/research.html • http://www.pinknoiz.com/coldwar/index.html • http://www.thedogisland.com/ • http://www.worldtoilet.org/