Transcript Website Evaluation - Rochester Community Schools

Research Ideas
0 http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html
0 http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/courses/english2
/termindex.htm
0 http://ozline.com/electraguide/topics.php
0 http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/socialjustice.htm
0 https://educationforjustice.org/resource-maps-socialjustice-topics -Need membership to get links but helpful
site for topic ideas
.gov Government agency: www.whitehouse.gov
.net –very similar to .com sites, there are no restrictions to register as
.net and content is not monitored.
.com Commercial site
.edu Higher education - www.lesley.edu. Other educational sites may
appear with different domain names: www.whitehouse.gov/kids
.mil Military site- www.navy.mil/
~ ("tilde") Personal site – blogs, wikis, and personal webpages
http://www.members.tripod.com/~DAdams/qkbrdinf.html
.org Organization; may be charitable, religious, or a lobbying group http://www.rhpl.org.
Purpose
0 commercial
0 informative
0 educational
0 entertaining
0 persuasive
0 personal
0 institutional
0 a hoax
Authority
0 Who is the author?
0 What are his credentials?
0 Does he have sufficient authority to speak on the
subject?
0 Is there any way to reach him?
0 Is there an organizational or corporate sponsor?
0 Is this page authentic, or is it a hoax?
0 Is there a reference list?
Objectivity
0 Does the content reflect a bias?
0 Is the bias explicit or hidden?
0 Does the identity of the author or sponsor suggest a
bias?
0 How does the bias impact the usefulness of the
information?
Currency
0 Is the information on the page up-to-date?
0 Can you tell when the page was last updated?
0 Are there dead links?
0 Is there a difference between the date the information
was created and the date the page was last updated?
Clarity
0 Is the information clearly presented?
0 Is the text neat, legible and formatted for easy
reading?
0 If there are graphics, do they add to the content or
distract?
0 If there are advertisements, do they interfere with
your ability to use the page?
0 Are the pages well organized?
0 Are there mistakes in spelling or word usage?
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Resources
http://www.biography.com/
Library of Congress www.loc.gov
http://www.pbs.org/
www.mel.org
• Elibrary
• Opposing Viewpoints
• Medline Plus
• New York Times
Adams High School Online book collection
PASSWORD: kepdorp
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lom_1115?db=G
VRL
Search Engines- alternatives to
Google
0 Searching
0 http://www.google.com/alerts - have google do the
work for you
0 http://search.carrot2.org/stable/search -offers
additional search terms
0 http://www.sweetsearch.com/ - search engine for
students, displays full sentences
0 http://redz.com/home -displays screen shots of the
websites
Sources for Bibliographic
Help
0 http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/citati
on/mla/
0 Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format
(Purdue University Online Writing Lab):
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
0 Citation Builder- http://www.easybib.com/