Some Website Evaluation Materials

Martin Luther King

We will look a bit at the four sites that turn up in the top of a Google search for "Martin Luther King". Use the links here to look at these sites (the last with a bit of inappropriate language masked):

http://thekingcenter.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
Front page from martinlutherking.org here at mlkorg.pdf

For each of these four sites, make a note in your journal of what sort of organization or people have authored the site and what sort of goals the presentation evidences.

World Trade Organization

Both of the pages here are titled "World Trade Organization" and bear its logo:

Examine these two sites, and decide which is the real World Trade Organization site. Make a note in your journal of which URL is the correct site.

Evaluation of web sites for your own research

In your desk pairs, look at two web sites you would consider as sources of information for an upcoming required report in another class or a topic one of you has recently researched. For each of them, fill out a copy of the ECS rubric (from page 40 of ECS curriculum version 4.0). Include partner names and the full URL of the web site on the top of each rubric sheet.

A more extensive rubric

If you have time, you can look at the more extensive rubric at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/courses/WebEvalNew.pdf for further ideas of possible considerations in evaluating web sites, but we will not get so detailed in our work in this course.