Why is it important for you to know how to evaluate Web resources?
>> Overview of Online Materials: The Internet
Overview of Online Materials: The Resources
Search Engines, Meta-Search Engines, and Subject-Based Search Engines
Things to Remember About Search Engines, Meta-Search Engines, and Subject Directories
Problems with Websites, Example 1
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Problems with Web Sites, Example 2
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
The purpose of the Internet is to make connections between computers and networks for communication and information sharing. The Internet in its earliest form began in the 1940's. Users were limited to segments of the scientific community and the military. Even in the early days of the Internet, using much slower computers than are available today, users could move large amounts of information over distances in shorter periods of time than otherwise possible.
Over the years, technological improvements have enabled the movement of information faster and further. The increased number of people, outside of the scientific and military communities, with access to computers (which are continually becoming faster and cheaper), and improved methods of transmitting the information (the creation of the World Wide Web, improved modems, increasing bandwidth, cable access, etc.) has allowed millions of people access to the Internet in the last decade.
The Internet includes: email, discussion forums, listservs, newsgroups, real-time communication electronic forums, ftp, telnet, gopher, the World Wide Web, etc.
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