Looking ICYouSee Critical Thinking Page Record and Describe these strategies
Use these following suggestions when looking at web pages.
1. Make sure you are looking in the right place - does this site address your subject, was the site worth visiting
2. Almost anyone can put anythingon the web. Accuracy isnt easy to confirm
3. Try and find out who wrote or created the web pages, also something that indicates are they credible enough to write about the subject with some authority.
4. Know whats happening, identify the reason the web page was created. Is the main purpose to inform, persuade or sell you something.
5. Look at the finer details of the site - (internal clues i.e. grammar and spelling)
6. Web pages are different to pages found on the web in that web pages are hypertext links, whereas pages found on the web are scanned in (not connected)to other links....Gene Adams stated in class that all writing is referencial to other writing.
Task 2 Evaluating 1960's websites
I reviewed two websites being B. A trip through the 60's and D. The psychadelic 60's.
A trip through the 60's
The listed review topics seem to list things that I considered right for what I knew of the 60's ie Anti War Movemement, Civil Rights Movement, Sexual Revolution and the Vietnam War (just to name a few)
The colours and design seem to fit what I know of the era. The purpose of the site seemed to be a general informal site that gives people a reasonable overview of the era and the important social milestones that occurred.
Doesn't appear to state an author. It includes lots of quotes from different people ( who I didn't know)but the quotes were all thought provoking and genuinely seemed to be from that time. The site also had lots of interesting pictures.
I enjoyed the groovy way you could move around the site, i.e clicking on the heavily made up eye. The site was fun for gaining some interesting general knowledge about the 1960's.
The Psychadelic 60's
Appeared to be set up by the University of Virginia, which would make it a very credible and reliable source of information.
Typical colours and set up in a style that seemed familiar to the 1960's. The foreword was very well written, and contained a good overall summary of the decade. Obviously a lot of contributors to the website which the library acknowledged.
The purpose of the site seemed to be to provided a more academic and detailed look at the 60's.
The design of the site was not as flashy and eyecatching as the previous website I evaluated.
This weeks lecture notes were about evaluating and authenticating websites that you go into.
Ask yourself what is the quality of the information I am looking at and is it suitable to use. You need to be mindful of these questions when looking at information on the web because there is no control of who publishes articles on the web (relates to authorship, authority and authenticity, why the author has published the article (relates to bias, accuracy and trustworthiness), what is published on the web (relates to currency, reliability and coverage)
The web offers fast and accessible information exchange, anybody with computer access can create web content, the information published on the web bypasses traditional editing filters.
When evaluating IQ on the WWW, here are some points to consider; what are you measuring(content,visual feel, navigation, ease of use) why does information source exist (type of content, level of content,bias of content). Accuracy of information, Authority, Currency, Objectivity, Coverage,
Authentication considerations; Where is it (what domain type), who wrote it (details on author) additional considerations ( sources of information, validation of information, references.
The readings are basically about evaluation of internet research sources. There is a very wide range of information on the internet and it varies in its accuracy, reliability and value. Unlike traditional media (books,mags,organisation documents) no one needs to approve its content before publishing. As a searcher on the Net, you need to evaluate what you locate in order to establish if it is worth anything to you.
