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