E-learning Week Lesson/Assignment 1 - Evaluating Web Resources

The World Wide Web offers a great wealth of information from all over the world, as well as the opportunity for people to express themselves and exchange ideas. This makes it a potentially great place to accomplish research on many topics. However, because so much information is available, and because that information can appear to be fairly “anonymous”, it is necessary to develop skills to evaluate what you find. You need to cultivate the habit of healthy skepticism, of questioning everything you find with critical thinking. The Internet epitomizes the concept of Caveat lector: Let the reader beware. The burden is on you - the reader - to establish the validity, authorship, timeliness, and integrity of what you find.

The following websites offer excellent advice on how to evaluate web sources.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
and http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/evaluating/

Using what you have learnt about web evaluation, I would like you to evaluate some of the websites on my homepage at http://www.netvibes.com/lucyhow#GPand share your evaluation with the others here. Please write a review of at least one website.

You may choose to work on this on your own or with one other person. Please include both names should you work with a partner.