Evaluating Web Sites

Only Your Hairdresser Knows For Sure

• Home Schooling Performance Assessment
• Feline Reactions to Bearded Men

Goals Based Evaluation Approach

• Evaluating Internet-based Information: Essay by David Warlick

Widener University Criteria for Identifying Site Types

• Evaluation Checklists
  • Advocacy Pages
  • Business and Marketing Pages
  • News Web Pages
  • Informational Web Pages
  • Personal Web Pages

Classroom Issues to Consider

• Library Selection Criteria for WWW Resources
• Rubricks for Evaluating Websites

Example Evaluation Sites to Explore

• Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion?
• The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly