Websites for Evaluation

 

Why should you evaluate webpages?
Anyone with a computer can put up a webpage. You do not know who they are, or if they are qualified to talk about the subject you are researching. Before you use a website, look to see who is sponsoring the page. If you can't figure out who has produced it, don't use it.


Look at the websites below. Using the criteria in the attached handout Evaluating Web Information, Choose 5 sites fill out the evaluation worksheet.

Funny Sites:
The Jackelope Conspiracy http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm
Ladies Against Women http://www.ladiesagainstwomen.com/index.html
The End of the Internet http://www.shibumi.org/eoti/index.htm
The Ova Prima Foundation http://www.ovaprima.org/ 
California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge http://www.umbachconsulting.com/miscellany/velcro.html
The True but Little Known Facts of Women and AIDS http://147.129.226.1/library/research/AIDSFACTS.htm
Pets or Food http://www.petsorfood.com/
Feline Reactions to Bearded Men  http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
Google's Pigeon Rank Technology http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beenie http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

Dog Island http://www.thedogisland.com/

Bonsai Kitten http://www.shorty.com/bonsaikitten/



Scary Sites (By "scary" I mean really misleading if used for a report):
Dihydrogen Monoxide http://www.dhmo.org/
Institute for Internet History http://ioih.org/
Secondhand Smoke: The Big Lie http://www.smokingsection.com/issues1.html#smoke

The First Male Pregnancy http://www.malepregnancy.com/

 

Other Websites Devoted to Website hoaxes

Museum of Hoaxes http://museumofhoaxes.com/