WEEK 6

Week six included the usual quiz. this quiz was regarding evaluation and authentication.

We can determine the quality on the WWW by what you are measuring, why the information resources exists , consider wheather the information is good enough for the purpose.
Helen disscussed the accuracy of information on the world wide web. the issues with accuracy are as follows
* anyone can publish anything on the web.
* Web resources rarely have editors or fact checkers.
* No web standards appy to ensure accuracy.
to define whether the information is accurate you must check for an editor or someone who verifies/ checks the information.

In today's lecture Currency and coverage was spoken about these are two important ways of determining authentication. to ensure the page is current you must check the dat. the coverage of the content must be indepth and of value.

The issues with Objectivity are as follows:
* Frequently the goals of the sponsor/ authors arent clearly stated.
* often the web serves as virtual " Hyde park corner", a soap box.
to determine the objectivity you must decide whether the information shows a minimum of bias, is the page designed to sway opinion and if there is any advertising on the page.

Overall to determine whether a web page is authentic you must evaluate the source and decide if it is appropriate for your purpose.

TUTORIAL

ICYouSee Critical Thinking page.

http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html

We had to review this website and talk about the four different strategies in our own learning log. We then had to compare what we found with “INCO 48” web site.

http://www.taftcollege.edu/newTC/Academic/INCO48/sec6-4.htm

Well this is what i came up with, the difference that the “INCO 48” website offers a large variety of ways to evaluate a website and web sources. On the other hand, ICYouSee Critical Thinking website provides a faster and more well-organized way of evaluating and confirming websites.

These are the Ten C's that are used as a principle to evaluate web sources

1) Content

2) Credibility

3) Critical Thinking

4) Copyright

5) Citation

6) Continuity

7) Censorship

8) Connectivity

9) Comparability

10) Context

Below are the six steps provided by ICYouSee Critical Thinking page to help with the examining of web pages

1) Make sure you are in the right place.

2) When in doubt, doubt.

3) Consider the source.

4) Know what's happening.

5) Look at details.

6) Distinguish Web pages from pages found on the Web.

The ICYouSee Critical Thinking Page provides criteria commonly used, on ways to evaluates sources. i.e.: websites and web pages. The criteria provided below shows this and are the criteria most commonly used when evaluating websites.

Accuracy: Do you have good reason to believe that the information on the site is accurate? Are the facts documented?

Objectivity: What is the author's point of view? What is the purpose of the site?

Currency: When was the information on the page originally written? Has the site been kept up-to-date?

Coverage: Does this site address the topic you are researching? Is the information basic and cursory or detailed and scholarly? However complex the language might be, is the information substantial?

Value: Was the page worth visiting? Does the site offer anything informative, unique, or insightful? Is the site free of careless errors, misspelled words, and poor grammar?

Task 1

The websitehttp://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture27.html explores American history in the 1960's from the Civil War to Present. The authors seem to be very educated as they are from a very academic background. Therefore the information provided on this website

is very reliable and helpful for people who are researching this topic.

The website http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html discovers the culture and history of the 1960's. It provides the viewer with a vast amount of information on this topic. The site is authorized by Kingwood College Library.