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Activity 2: Internet Searching Links

Jenna Bryant

http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/find/eval.htm#top

“Life Beyond Yahoo: Evaluating Information.”

The information conveyed on this website is very practical and easy to understand. The page is not an article, but gives a simple outline of questions one should ask in evaluating a website and its validity, and if the information is fact or opinion. I believe the site focuses on the main problems schools face today with students believing everything they read and consider it the facts without checking the source or finding additional information.

The website also gives a nice rubric to help clarify the questions one should ask about a reference on the internet. The rubric describes 5 criteria for evaluating websites. The idea of checking and finding additional resources is validated by this site by the incredible list of additional sites they give to the searcher. The site lists emails and sites its sources on the information they are including in their explanations.