Education Technology:
Tools to Evaluate Websites		 by Dolores Veshka

John McCarthy
Learn how to evaluate the validity of the information you encounter on the World Wide Web by using a variety of evaluation tools to examine the content. Critical analysis of documents to determine purpose, bias, accuracy, and quality is more important than ever.

Credibility of sources is also a critical issue given the case with which computer can be used to edit or fabricate what have traditionally been viewed as factual records-both print documents as well as images. We will also look at helping students citing electronic resources. Take these tools back to your classroom.

  

Workshop Objectives

  
  • Provide an overview of the changing nature of information and a rationale for web site evaluation.
     
  • Provide an opportunity to evaluate the validity and reliability of a web site by determining what sites are linked to it.
     
  • Provide an opportunity to evaluate the validity and reliability of web site content through the use of various rubrics (elementary, middle school, high school.)
     
  • Provide access to a bibliography of resources and online sites for the purpose of conducting web site evaluation after the workshop.
  

 

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