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

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

3. Information on the web Evaluate the following website:
Summarize the first few paragraphs.
With what you know about the Holocaust – what is your opinion of the writings?

4. Reasons info posted on web
Propoganda:
Advertising: 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:
Recreational:
Education and Scholarly Information:

5. 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?

6. 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

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

8. 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

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

10. The Five W’s of web site evaluation