The Process

1.  Introduction 2.  Task 3.  Process 4.  Conclusion

1.     Choose a partner that you will do your best work with.

2.     Record your investigation on the Website Evaluation Data sheet.

3.     Take a close look at these websites, some of them may be tricky:
  
         ·        Website 1
  
         ·        Website 2
  
         ·        Website 3
  
         ·        Website 4
  
         ·        Website 5

4.     Answer these questions while looking at the websites:
  
         ·        Which of these websites do you trust?
  
         ·        What are the features of these sites that encourage your    
  
                     trust?  Name at least 5 features.
  
         ·        Why don’t you trust the other sites?  Name at least 3 reasons.

5.    Take a look at the evaluation criteria that librarians at Cornell University
    have listed at http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/webcrit.html
  
         ·        Compare our criteria to the experts. 
  
         ·        Did we leave out any criteria that you feel we should include?
  
         ·        Did we select criteria that the specialists didn’t?

                                                                              Conclusion --->

 

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