Learning Exercise
Website evaluation
This tutorial establishes criteria for evaluating websites and provides examples for each criterion.
Course: Courses that require a research paper, high school English classes, college English 101 classes
- Material:
- Evaluate Internet Sites 101!
- Date last modified:
- May 16, 2007
- Created by:
- Amy Harris
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Exercise
After completing this tutorial individually, groups of 3-4 students will look at and evaluate two websites using the criteria set forth in the tutorial. They will then decide which, if any, of the websites they would include in a research paper. If time allows, groups could come together and discuss what they learned and what was surprising to them.
Sample websites for evaluation:
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
http://www.dhmo.org/
http://www.sparky.org/news.html
http://www.helmets.org/stats.htm
http://deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/
http://people.smu.edu/rhalperi/