This document provides instructions for evaluating a website by having students visit a specified website and answering 10 questions about the URL, domain extension, author, contact details, purpose, creation/update dates, internal links, information sources, contradicting information from other sources, advertising, and reasons to trust/not trust the information on the site.
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Worksheet evaluating a website
1. Evaluating a Website
Go to the address of the website your teacher has given you and answer the following
questions:
1 What is the URL of the site?
2 What is the domain extension? What does this tell you?
3 Who is the author of the site?
4 Are there any contact details for the author?
5 What is the purpose of this site?
5 When was the site created/updated?
6 Do the links work? If you follow a link can you get back to the site easily?
7 Where does the information on the site come from?
8 Does any information on the site contradict what you have read somewhere else?
9 Is there any advertising on the website? If yes, what is it for?
10 Explain why you would or would not trust the information on this site