Website Evaluation

Here is a very good website to evaluate the internet Evaluating Websites. I think this website is an excellent resource to evaluate websites or the Internet in general. In particular, this site would be very helpful for middle and high school students. This site first explains, in readable English, a little bit of why it is important to evaluate the Internet. It is divided in the following three parts: Basic guidelines to evaluate websites, introducing students to website evaluation, and additional resources. In the basic guide lines part, this site addresses four main steps to evaluate websites, which are Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness and Support and for which raises interesting questions to help the readers understand such steps. Also, this site uses the following mnemonic to help readers remember these four steps: CARS = Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support. In the introduction to students part, this site provides students with some readable suggestions to evaluate websites and with a section about Rubrics for Evaluating Websites Finally, this website provides with some additional evaluation resources, and briefly explains how each of these resources work. Therefore, this site does not only teach how to evaluate websites but it also provides some links to other website evaluation sites.