How Do You Know Whether You Can Trust a Website??.

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Presentation transcript:

How Do You Know Whether You Can Trust a Website??

What Makes a Good or Bad Website?

Test Before You Trust  Essential Question:  Why is it important to evaluate the source and validity of information?  Enduring Understandings:  Information should be evaluated critically to decide its purpose, trustworthiness, how up-to-date it is, and its ease- of-use.

Test Before You Trust  Checklist – Download the checklist from the website ("Test Before You Trust") that you will use when evaluating websites.  As a class, use the checklist to evaluate a website on Earthquakes so that you understand how to use the checklist and the terminology.Earthquakes

Trustworthy or Not?  We’ll look through several websites:  Why is it important to evaluate the source and validity of information?  Your Task:  Information should be evaluated critically to decide its purpose, trustworthiness, how up-to-date it is, and its ease-of-use.  Use the checklist to decide how each website rates in terms of the four criteria on the checklist. Give it a rating on a scale of 1 (low) to 5 (high).

A Visual Guide to Evaluating Sources on the Web  Click the link to go to the visual online:

Evaluating Internet Information  Click the link to go to the chart online.  Authority – after reading this section, consider QuackWatch QuackWatch  Objectivity – after reading this section, consider OncoLink OncoLink  Accuracy– after reading this section, consider ProBushProBush  Currency – after reading this section, consider GenoChoice GenoChoice

Fake or Real?  Doggie Vacations Doggie Vacations  Unusual Animals  Really-Great Fakes  RYT Hospital RYT Hospital  Water Water Fake or Real?

Tools to Evaluate Websites  Google Page Rank  Click to download Click to download  Alexa Traffic Rank Alexa Traffic Rank  Alexa ranks websites according to their backlinks and page views. It starts with 26 million down to 1 with 1 being the top. Any website ranked from has more chances of being a good resource.

Journal Activity  1. Why is it important to evaluate the source and validity of information? 2. Which of the questions in the checklist do you think are most important when making research decisions? Why? Be sure to support your answer.  3. Find your a spoof site from the internet. Why do you think it's a hoax?