ist 561 spring 2009--session6, information literacy and web site evaluation
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A presentation on information literacy and its relationship to teaching users about evaluating Web sites retrieved in Internet searchesTRANSCRIPT
Evaluation of sites
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Overview
• Information literacy
• Web site evaluation
• Demonstration• Demonstration
Information literate
Process
Info literacy and the Internet
• common information and communication tool
• research resource --students and adults • research resource --students and adults
• evaluation of web sites on the Internet
Reliance upon web-based info increasing
Web page evaluation
Another way to view evaluation
Who wrote it?
Are the aims of the site clear?
Does the site achieve its aims?
Is the site relevant to me?
Can the information be checked?
When was the site produced?
Is the information biased in any way?
Does the site tell you about choices?
Keep in mind
• Web evaluation techniques are in development
• Technology is outpacing ability to create • Technology is outpacing ability to create standards and guidelines
• Establishing evaluation procedures will be an ongoing evolutionary process
Resource sites
• Information Architecture for the Web– http://eduscapes.com/arch/What’s truth got
to do with it? to do with it?
• Evaluating Internet sites 101– http://library.albany.edu/usered/webeval/
More sites
• Web evaluation checklist– http://www.skidmore.edu/library/help/interne
tsearching/eval_list.htmtsearching/eval_list.htm
• Ten Cs for evaluating Internet sources– http://www.uwec.edu/Library/research/guides/u
pload/tenCs.pdf