evaluating websites or how to get the good stuff!
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Quality Web Site?
• The 1st one that comes up on Google
• Has great pictures• Looks professional • Has cool stuff on it like
animated cartoons• My topic is in the title
What do you think of this web site?
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Whale Watching
How about this website for a social studies
project?
War History
Look at the ending of each web site or URL
• www.nytimes.com• www.centcom.mil• www.loc.gov• www.phila.k12.pa.us• www.redcross.int• www.unc.edu• www.metmuseum.org• www.timesonline.co.uk• www.scils.rutgers.edu/~rtodd
You’re doing a school project on the characteristics of Japanese
painting. What do you look for in a web
site?
What is the web site really about?
Is it relevant to your topic?
http://www.theartofjapan.com/
http://www.koho-schoolofsumi-e.com/
http://web-japan.org/museum/paint.html -
Who put together the web site?• Author?• Author’s credentials (is it an expert in the
field?)• Author’s sources?• Check the bottom or edges of the page or
the home page for the author.
Where are these sites from? Do you think they
are reputable? • http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/chinese.asp
• http://web-japan.org/museum/menu.html
When were these sites last updated?
• http://artcafe.net/ah/japan/
• http://asianhistory.about.com/od/warsinasia/p/SamuraiProfile.htm
Finally, Why did they put together
the website?
• Are they trying to sell you something?
• Are they trying to convince you about something?
• Is it biased? Does it express an opinion?
Why were these websites put together?
• http://www.babybushtoys.com/
• http://animalrightscoalition.com/