USD Information Literacy Lessons: Page 8

Why is it important for you to know how to evaluate Web resources?

Overview of Online Materials: The Internet

What is the Web?

Overview of Internet Use

Overview of Online Materials: The Resources

How Selective is the Web?

Search Engines, Meta-Search Engines, and Subject-Based Search Engines

>> Subject Directory

Things to Remember About Search Engines, Meta-Search Engines, and Subject Directories

Problems with Websites, Example 1

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Continued

Stormfront.org

Problems with Web Sites, Example 2

Websites: Example 2

Websites: Example 2 Continued

Internet Reliability

How to Approach Web Resources

Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages

Criteria for Evaluation: Author or Webmaster

Criteria for Evaluation: The Author’s Point of View

Criteria for Evaluation: The Publisher

Criteria for Evaluation: Purpose

Criteria for Evaluation: Accuracy, Completeness, and Objectivity/Bias

Criteria for Evaluation: Accuracy

Criteria for Evaluation: Relevance

Criteria for Evaluation: Coverage

Criteria for Evaluation: Currency

Criteria for Evaluation: Visual Literacy

Criteria for Evaluation: Visual Literacy Continued

Consider the Web Design

Rules of Thumb when using Web Resources

Web Evaluation Lesson IL Exercise

Subject directories (also known as web guides) contain web pages collected and indexed on a particular topic or topics. The most prominent directory on the Web is Yahoo!  (This doesn't make it a good information source. See the discussion of Yahoo! below.) 

When using directories for assignments involving research, use a reliable one, such as…

• Librarian's Index to the Internet: https://www.law.cornell.edu/

• Infomine:  https://www.glacierrig.com/infomine/

• Digital Librarian: https://the-digital-librarian.com/

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