Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Evaluating Websites

This week we learned how to evaluate websites to ensure their reliability. This was a very helpful activity seeing as how many teachers and students now rely on the internet to get their information on a subject for a class discussion, report, or paper. By using a checklist, we were able to evaluate a website of our choice and decide whether or not it met the criteria for a reliable source. Some of the criteria we looked at included: who is the author of the site, is there a publishing body, does the site show a bias, is the information supported by additional sources, and is the information current. After evaluating all these criteria we were then able to to determine if the site would be a good source to use in the classroom. This activity was definatley useful and I am sure I will take these things into consideration before choosing a website to use with students in my future classroom.

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