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Name |
Title
and URL
of page you are evaluating:
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Title and URL of page you are evaluating: |
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1.
Look at the URL |
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Personal page or site?
Blog?
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~
or %
or users, members, or
people |
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or % or users, members,
or people |
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What type of domain is it? Appropriate for, and related to, the content? |
com org/net edu gov/mil/us non-US |
com org/net edu gov/mil/us non-US |
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2. Scan the perimeter of the page, looking for answers to these questions?
ex. About us |
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Who wrote the page and is responsible for the information? |
Email: Name: Group: |
Email: Name: Group: |
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Dated? |
Date
__________Current enough? |
Date __________Current enough? |
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Credentials
on this subject? (Truncate
back the URL if no useful links) |
Evidence? Qualifications? |
Evidence? Qualifications? |
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3.
Look for these indicators of quality |
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Works cited for their sources of information? |
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Links to more resources? Outside of original site? Do they work? |
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Other viewpoints acknowledged? What is the site’s bias? Exaggeration? Overgeneralization? Opinion as fact? Charged words? |
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Does the site allow advertising? Is it related to the topic of the site? |
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Are there any grammatical errors or typos? |
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4.
What do others say? |
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Who Links to it? What types of sites? (In Google Advanced, use Page Specific Search, Links) |
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Use www.alexa.com Check out Overview, Linking in, Related Links. What can this tell you? |
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Look up the author or organization in Google. Use quotes around the name. What can you infer from the results? |
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5.
Does it all add up? |
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| What makes this an academic level source? | ||
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Why was the page put on the web? |
Inform, facts, data Explain Persuade Sell Entice Share/disclose Other: |
Inform, facts, data Explain Persuade Sell Entice Share/disclose Other: |
An
adaptation of Joe Barker’s Web Page Evaluation Checklist from The Teaching
Library,