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A Seven Step Approach To Evaluating Web Page A-GChapter A – Author/Sponsor/Host

http://21centuryedtech.wordpress.comhttp://21centuryedtech.wikispaces.com

Michael Gorman

2011

Michael Gorman Presents A Mini Power Point

Seven Steps To Effective Web Site Evaluation (A-G)

STEP A

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Introducing The ABC’s of Web Research

Along with the DEFG’s

The Seven Steps To Web Site Evaluation

AUTHOR

In Other Words… Who Wrote The Article?

A. Find More Out About The Author

Who wrote…. AuthorSponsoring Organization… Group supporting site

Hosting Service… Where is website’s homeCredential Of Author/Sponsor…

… check external sources by searching… check internal by investigating web site

• Author is the one who wrote the article

• May not be the same person as the publisher /sponsor of the web site

• It may even be someone that is no longer

living

• If no author … investigate sponsor

Who Wrote… Author

• group supporting site

• if no author … find and investigate sponsor • usually has an interest in the information

given.

• may be found anywhere on page… title, bottom

• every page should have a sponsor

Sponsor Organization

• service providing network servers on the web

• is their a relationship with sponsor or author • do not confuse with sponsor

Hosting Service

• author… bio, title, occupation, accomplishments

• sponsor… credibility, purpose, reputation • external check using other reference material

• internal check with links, stories, other pages

Credentials

Web ExampleSponsor

Author

HostCredentials

A. Author/Sponsor

At the bottom of article it states it is an autobiography.

From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1967

This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.

Link To Page

Albert Einstein is the authorNobelprize.org is the sponsor

A. Author… Credibility

Since this an is autobiography credibility is obvious, but also note further links to content which supports page.

Internal Information

From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1967

This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures.

A. Credentials Of Sponsor - Internal

While this is on the site, it should be verified in another place.

Nobelprize.org is the official web site of the Nobel Foundation. Here you will find information for every Nobel Prize since 1901, including the Nobel Laureates' biographies, Nobel Lectures, interviews, photos, articles, video clips, press releases, educational games and more.

As the official online information source for the Nobel Prize, visitors learn about the names of the year's Nobel Laureates just seconds after the prize announcements are made by the Nobel Prize-Awarding Institutions each October.

A. Web Verification Of Sponsor - External

Author – Autobiography (Albert Einstein) CREDIBLE (no need to Google Name)Organization - Nobleprize.org CREDIBLE

Nobelprize.org (http://nobelprize.org) is a registered trademark, and is produced, managed and maintained by Nobel Web. Nobel Web AB is a Swedish corporate entity and subsidiary of the Nobel Foundation Rights Association, a non-profit association managing the rights of the Nobel Foundation.

Google the Author and/or sponsor

A. Nobelprize.org : Albert Einstein

Scores a 5 for Author/Organization

Evaluating A Web Site

A-G

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Are There Whales In Lake Michigan?

Michael J. Gorman21centuryedtech

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Johns Hopkins University, Indiana University, Western Michigan University

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