Transcript Web Site Evaluation - Diocese of Buffalo

Web Site Evaluation
Elizabeth Schanbacher
Director of Educational Technology
The Diocese of Buffalo
Critical Evaluation
• With the advent of the World Wide Web
and the huge amount of information that is
contained there, everybody needs to be
able to critically evaluate a Web page for
authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias,
and usability. The ability to critically
evaluate information is an important skill in
this information age.
What makes a good site?
• Use the 5 W’s (and 1 H) Who, What, Where,
When, Why and How to help you determine if
the site is “good”
• http://www.mediaawareness.ca/english/resources/special_initiatives/wa_r
esources/wa_shared/tipsheets/5Ws_of_cyberspace.cfm
• Check out the Schrock Guide for an educators
viewpoint.
• http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/pdf/ev
almidd.pdf
• Another great resource
• http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
How do you know?
• Use this rubric to help you critically
evaluate Web sites
• http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/ev
alchart.html
• ICYouSee
• http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.
html
Critical Evaluation in Action
• http://novemberlearning.com/default.aspx?
tabid=159&type=art&site=19&parentid=18
• http://www.profusion.com to search all
search engines
• http://www.altavista.com/ to see the pages
that refer or link to a site.
Need more information?
• http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/instruct/evaluate/
evalbiblio.html
• http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
eval.html