Jill Fischer Jr. High Technology Literacy Web evaluation Jill Fischer Jr. High Technology Literacy

What factors determine what you believe? Do you believe? Everything you hear? Everything you see? Everything you read? What factors determine what you believe?

Information on the web Evaluate the following website: http://www.codoh.com/butz/di/intro.html Summarize the first few paragraphs. With what you know about the Holocaust – what is your opinion of the writings?

Reasons info posted on web Propoganda: http://farm.ewg.org/farm/dp_release.php Advertising: http://www.tide.com/en- US/stains/top- stains.jspx?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cp c&utm_term=stain%2Bremoval%2Bguide&utm_ca mpaign=Category_(Stain)%2BStain%2BTypes%2B& gclid=CN7auOj1i6ECFUkc5wodnEZiNw Advocacy: http://ww5.komen.org/ Recreational:http://www.pgatour.com/ Education and Scholarly Information: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Evaluation techniques Author Credibility Website contain Author’s name Way to contact author Author’s credentials Purpose for Publishing Info What is site trying to do? Why was it created?

Evaluation techniques URL – Uniform Resource Locator .gov is a U.S. government site .mil is a U.S. military site .edu is an accredited post-secondary educational institution .com is a commercial, for-profit entity .org is a noncommercial, not-for-profit entity .net is a computer network, particularly an Internet-related network .int is an international organization .jp, .ru, .ca, .au, etc. are country identifiers

Know your url’s http://www.whitehouse.gov http://www.whitehouse.net Actual website http://www.whitehouse.net Satirical view of the White House http://www.whitehouse.com Pornographic website

Evaluation techniques Date of publication of site Is it current? Date updated is located on home page Overall Design of Site Accuracy of information is highly related to accuracy of site Check for: Spelling errors Grammatical errors Profanity

Think Critically Web evaluation Must have: Readiness to question all assumptions Ability to recognize what is necessary to question Ability to evaluate and analyze.

The Five W’s of web site evaluation