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Evaluation - why be wary? Evaluating web sites - the
5 Ws - (adapted from
Kathy Schrock ) and (5w's
of cyberspace) and webevaluation
tutorial/quiz - WHO
- who wrote the pages and are they an expert?
- WHAT - what does the author
say is the purpose of the site?
- WHEN - when was the site created
- WHERE
- where does the information come from?
- WHY - why should I use his information?
It is useful?
| - WHO - who wrote
the pages
- WHAT - what's the purpose, information
- WHY - is there
a bias
- WHEN - when was the site created
- HOW - well is the page
designed
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Groups
on the web - different groups publish web sites Hate groups
(http://web.archive.org/web/20010331054355/www.martinlutherking.org/)
URL information finders - who are the authors - who sponsors these
sites?
Hackers
spreading false information and rumors with links to malicious websites -
Google search results on Online marketing towards kids Personal web pages -- free
web site hosting Personal
web pages at universities and colleges - .edu sites with a ~ (tilda) Wikipedia
- an online encyclopedia that is able to be edited (vandalism) Wikipedia
prank and it's consequences - NY Times article on Seigenthaler 25
biggest blunders in Wikipedia history - false deaths and libel situations 15
biggest Wikipedia blunders
Check
out some of these sites - are these valid sites?? Hoaxes and bogus sites |