Web Evaluations

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Web Site Evaluation Online Assignment

In this activity you will learn how to evaluate a web site. This will help you when you create your own web site and you may also use the sites you evaluate on your favorite links page.

Read Kathy Schrock’s ABC’s of Web Site Evaluation and Separating the Wheat from the Chaff . These are two small, but very good articles on evaluating web sites.

You will choose at least three sites to evaluate. These may be sites of your choice, but it will help in the future if they are related to your subject area or level of teaching.

Copy and past the links to these three site into a word document with a brief description of each. You will use this to create your Favorite links page in your web site.
Choose one of Kathy's Evaluation Instruments that applies to each of the sites you are evaluating. You will do this three times, one for each of the three required sites.

Critical Evaluation Survey : Virtual Tours (Word)

Save each evaluation with your last name and then (last name) eval1.doc, (last name) eval2.doc and (last name) eval3.doc
Write a one-Paragraph reflection of this experience. Save this with your last name and webreflection.
Send the three evaluation files and the reflection file to your instructor by email attachment

Use the rubric below to self-evaluate your work. You will later post your evaluations to your web site.

*Kathy Schrock also provides detailed information about conducting web searches. If you are not confident of your web searching techniques, I recommend that you read

Successful Web Search Strategies http://kathyschrock.net/slideshows/searching.pdf

ASSIGNMENT EVALUATION RUBRIC

Evaluating Web Resources = 15 points
trait	5 pts.	4 pts.	3 pts.	2 pts.	1 pts.
Student understands basic criteria for evaluating information	Checklist is well-implemented & includes discussion & evaluation of content as well as all criteria (authority, purpose, audience, coverage, accuracy, timeliness, integrity and point of view).	Review includes discussion of all criteria, but limited evaluation of content.	Review includes discussion of some of the criteria, with little or no evaluation.	Review addresses some criteria, but vaguely.	Criteria not addressed.
Student can correctly cite Web resources in appropriate style	Page is cited completely, using correct citation style	Page is cited completely, but not in correct format	Page is cited incompletely, with no indication of missing elements	Page is cited only by URL	Page is not cited.
Reflection	Successfully sent as attachment, on time, professional presentation, describes what was learned in search, correctly cites three web sites.	Successful attachment, few presentation errors, citations correct, but reflection lacks depth	Sent as message or unsuccessful attachment, errors in presentation, some evidence of learning	Sent as message or unsuccessful attachment, many presentation errors, little evidence of learning	Late, unsuccessful attachment, no depth in reflec

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