USD Information Literacy Lessons: Page 20

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

• Who is the author of the web site?   Is there a link to contact the author?  If you can't determine who the author is, you can learn who registered the site at www.register.com.
• What do you already know about the author? Is s/he associated with an agenda? Is it mainstream?
• Does the author have the expertise (as demonstrated by academic credentials in the subject of the web site) to give reliable information on the subject?
• Does the author demonstrate knowledge of the subject and how that subject fits into its broader context?
• Who is the Webmaster? Does s/he have links to organizations with an agenda?

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