EVALUATING WEBSITES

• Critically evaluate websites using set criteria• Think creatively about information found

online• Analyse and evaluate information

effectively

WHY?

• What is the purpose of a website?• inform• sell• persuade• entertain

• How might this affect the information on the website?• bias• misinformation• unreliability

http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/

• Work through the tutorial – this should take 10 -15 minutes• Using a table in Word, design an evaluation grid for

websites, using the criteria from the tutorial

NOW HAVE A LOOK AT THESE…

Critically evaluate these websites using the criteria you have designed

• http://fdxnewsonline.com/health/index11724.php • http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime/violence-against-

women-girls/teenage-relationship-abuse/

• www.rythospital.com

• www.geoffbarton.co.uk