Web Page Evaluation
| Title of the page (look at the top bar on the page): | |
| Web page url (address): | |
| Is it a personal page? (Look for ~, % or "users" or "people" | Yes? No? |
| What type of domain? Does the type match the information on the page? | .com .org .gov/mill/us .net .edu non-US other _____________________ |
| Scan the site to answer the following: | |
| Who wrote/created/maintains the page? | email ___________ name ___________________ |
| What are their credentials or affiliations on the subject? | Evidence? |
| Dated? | date ___________ Is is current enough? Yes No |
| Quality Check: | |
| Are sources well documented? | Yes No |
| Is it a primary souce, a secondary source or a combination of both? | |
| Is the information complete? | |
| Are there links to other resouces? Do the links work? | |
| Other viewpoints? Bias? | |
| Outside perspective: | |
| Who links to it: (In a google search type "link:your site's url ". It will list linked pages) | |
Opinions of the page? |
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Is the page rated well in a directory? http://www.lii.org/ , http://infomine.ucr.edu/ , http://about.com |
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| Look up the author in Google | |
| Time for common sense, does it all add up? | |
| Why was the site put on the web? |
Inform, facts, data
Explain
Persuade
Entice
Sell
Share/disclose
Opinion
Other _____________________________________ |
| Is it possibly ironic? Satire, parody, humor, spoof? | |
| This chart was designed for WLHS using the following sources: 2002 Joe Barker, The Teaching Library, University of California, Berkeley "The Best Stuff On The Web" HCPSS English 9 Research Project, Student Resource Sheet 3.1 from the HCPSS Office of Media and Eduational Technology, 2006 |