Web Site Evaluation
Your assignment…
- Find one web site that represents each of the following categories
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- An elementary school web site
- A web site that provides lesson ideas for teachers
- An informational web site that gives basic information about an elementary level topic
- An interactive web site that allows students to practice a specific skill or knowledge concerning an elementary level topic.
- Choose and print out an appropriate web site evaluation matrix from one of the following locations... (you may use different forms for different web sites)
- Complete an evaluation form for each web site.
- Complete a blog entry about web site evaluation. Information you could share includes…
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- What form(s) did you like/dislike? Why?
- Were there any hidden secrets about a website you discovered by using an evaluation form?
- What is the value of using a web site evaluation process?
- Are there times you would/would not use a formal evaluation
A note of interest:
I was asked "why does it matter if you dont know who the author is?" Good question. My response...
Knowing who wrote the webpage can be useful and informative. A web page may be bias if it is written by someone with a high stake interest in it and/or an 'enemy.'
For example #1...
A website talks about how wonderful, attractive, and safe City X is. If that website is written by the main tourist hotel in City X, is it bias? Have they left out a higher than normal crime rate, the fact City X may only have 14 days with temps above 58 degrees, or only 1 restaurant in town?
Example #2...
A website talks about how great a teacher Professor Y is. Unfortunately it was all created and written by Professor Y. Another site talks about how horrible Professor Y is. Unfortunately it was created by a disgruntled student who failed a class taught by Professor Y.
What is the true nature of Professor Y, good or bad?
I hope this gives you the general idea of why knowing who wrote the site can make a difference.
