USD Information Literacy Lessons: Page 25

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

• How accurate is the information?  Is it fact or opinion?  Are the facts documented?
• Are the sources used for factual information made easily accessible so that the information can be verified?   (Is there a bibliography or list of references/resources provided?)
• Is the web site free of grammatical, spelling, and typographical errors? (These errors indicate poor proof-reading skills and sloppy work.)

The accuracy of the information found on a web site must be verifiable and without errors. This means the information and the language in which it is delivered must be both factually as well as grammatically and typographically correct.  
If you cannot trust the author or publisher of the site, then you should probably place little, if any, trust in the information being presented. 

The creator has won awards for this site.

Contact information is made easily available at the bottom of the homepage.

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