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About World Wide Web Pages |
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About World Wide Web Pages |
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| What are the 5W's of web site evaluation? (reprinted with permission) | |
| Look at the following web sites and answer the questions about them. | |
| 1. The White House Who owns or supports this site? | |
| How can you find out? See whodunit in the menu frame. Information about the ownership of a website is often in a page called "about us." | |
| 2. Compare two sites with statistics about AIDS. Which one seems more reliable? | Exhibit One / Exhibit Two |
| Why? | |
| 3. Look at The Dangers of Bread. | |
| Do these statistics seem accurate? | Y/N |
| What do they mean? | |
| 4. Look at the MoonBeam Enterprise site. Would you buy a building site from these people? | Y/N |
| Why or why not? | |
| 5. Read about the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. Do you believe what it says? | Y/N |
| Why or why not? | |
| Next time you
look at a web page to use for school research, what will you THINK
about?
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| What would you tell your younger
brother or sister (or another younger student) about evaluating web sites?
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