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Beauties-My Page Evaluation & Example

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Sandy (Truth) **.Jo Cool or Jo Fool**  [] 1. Authority 2. Objectivity 3. Reliability 4. Design 5. Content 6. Technical Elements 7. Relevance 8. Efficiency 9. Credibility/Copyright Have students evaluate twelve mock Web sites to test their savvy surfing skills. Have each student take the 20-question online quiz that provides additional food for thought about Web issues. //On this website there is// an extensive Teacher's Guide, that contains background information for teachers, and questions and classroom activities for students, about online issues such as marketing, privacy, safety, responsible Internet use and authenticating information. The sky is the limit for what you could do and use in your classroom.

Evelyn World’s First Camping Computer members.shaw.ca/carsondesign/pages/colemac.html

This website was __TRASH__. Rated on Credibility, Content, Technical Elements, and Design, this website ranked very poor. No author was listed and no date or updates were given. No host organization and no websites used to develop the site gave it no credibility. The only thing interesting about the site was the title. No resource links were included. The information was practically non-existent so was deemed worthless. The site was easy enough to navigate because it was only one page and no links. The color and design was not inviting. This site was a dead end and looked like one.

This web site would be a good one to use with students as a starter website to demonstrate the very worst the Internet has to offer. Its one-page format makes it easy to evaluate in just a couple minutes, allowing the kids to get their “feet wet”, so to speak and familiarizing them with the rubric. Then I would find a mediocre site, topped off by a good one and then a research-worthy site. The information we included at the top of the rubric is very useful to researchers (Name of Site, URL, Date and Time) for developing their bibliographies for research papers.

Sheila [] Trash This is kinda funny. First thought - you're kidding, right? The photo editing, especially on the last pic, was obviously a "cut and paste" job. Without the use of a rubric, this site is an obvious hoax. Using our web rubric it averaged a 1 - 2 on each category. I did an address back to the author "tim" and sure enough he is a man with a sense of humor. He has a section of "funny stuff" and this site was listed as a (joke). Tim Vasquez does have a legit weathergraphis business and his personal website was very well done. It did score high avg 4-5 on all points in our rubric
 * History of the FISHER-PRICE AIRPLANE (Tupolev Tu-164)**

I would use this in my class to point out that an address back is a great tool for evaluation of a site - is it a joke link to a main page???.

Sam [] Sam – Peetz
 * 4. The Gematriculator **

This website is TRUTH.

In eval. of the Gematriculator website, 15 of 19 criteria came out at 3 or above, with only four criteria at 2 or below. In this scale, 1=poor and 5 =exceptional. Interestingly, however, even with such a high number of avg. or above, the overall score was only 70.5%. The only 2 criteria to fail were ‘contact person’ and ‘last updated’. The site wasn’t easy to look at but every link worked, and provided content-appropriate information (this was actually a gaming site with an educational slant). I personally won’t return to the site, and wouldn’t necessarily recommend it to high school students or below. If I had to teach from this site, I would use it only as pictures rather than live search, to avoid inappropriate content.

Heidi I selected and evaluated the web site []. The site has an interesting Flash presentation on note-taking. This part of the site is valuable. The tips for taking notes are good for middle school and high school students. Rating it on the rubric our team developed follows: Design: 18/ 20 Content: 8/20 Technical Elements: 13/25 Credibility: 12/20

The links to History’s Mysteries is trash, but this site is a lot of fun. The students need to see that there are some sites that look real but are hoaxes.

I would have my fifth graders watch the Flash presentation about note-taking. After that was complete I would have them go to the History’s Mysteries link and glance through some of those links. Then I would direct them to the site on Mars. I would have them read it and practice taking notes. Hopefully someone would notice the bogus information in the site. Then we would look at other sites about Mars to see if we could tell the difference between real sites and bogus ones. I would talk to them about evaluation forms and sometimes the criteria is met even if the site is bogus. I would have them complete a Venn Diagram showing how this site and the Nasa site (for example) are alike and different. Peetz Beauties - Heidi