- The Internet has a wealth of information, but not all of it is of equal value, accuracy, or usefulness.
- This composition is intended to help you develop skills of evaluating web pages.
- For the purposes of this course, you must evaluate an English-language site.
- If you have a favourite English-language Web page that you want to evaluate, go ahead.
- If you don't know which Web page to evaluate, try one of the following.
- Choose quickly and don't spend a long time surfing.
- Once you have chosen a Web page to evaluate, look at the Questions to Use When Evaluating Web Pages page for guidance.
- When you write your answers to the questions, use full sentences that include the question so you reader knows what you are answering. This is not the same as simply writing the questions on your paper.
- Be sure to format your composition, i.e., double space it.
Possible web-sites to review:
- Dinosaurs <http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/home/>
- A Word a Day <http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html>
- The Linguistic Fun Page <http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/>
- The City of Victoria <http://WWW.City.Victoria.BC.CA/>
- Learn about the World <http://www.globalearn.org/>
- Live from Mars <http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/>
- Hubble Telescope Homepage <http://www.stecf.org/>
- NASA Homepage <http://www.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html/>
- Pyramids <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/>
- Treasures of a sunken city <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sunken/>
- Louvre Art Museum <http://www.paris.org/Musees/Louvre/>
- Ask Asia <http://www.askasia.org/>
- Marcopolo <http://www.wcom.com/marcopolo/>
- Harry Potter <http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/>
- Wallace and Gromit <http://www.aardman.com/>
- National Geographic <http://www.nationalgeographic.com/>
- Spaceday 2000 <http://www.spaceday.com/>
- Canadian Heroes <http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/6/index-e.html>
- The World Cup <http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/en>
- Japanese News Online <http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm>
- How Things Work <http://www.howstuffworks.com/index.htm>
- Earthquake Information <http://quake.usgs.gov/>
- Multicultural Japan <http://www.issho.org/>
