1. Name: Andrea Remírez, Mikel Rojano
For each B. AWARE criterion listed below, write a paragraph addressing all
questions for that criterion listed on the Ida B. AWARE webpage. Give evidence
to support your answers, i.e. what do you base your conclusions on? Use the
Website Evaluation Checklist to ensure you have addressed all required
components of the assignment. To receive full credit for this assignment, you
must complete all parts of it. Leaving sections blank will result in loss of points.
Part 1: Martin Luther King Website Assessment
Content Area and Grade Level/Intended Audience:
We don´t find an specific Grade Level for this page so we don´t know who could be the
intended audience. The area could be American history and civil rights.
Website URL:
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
Website Description:
The web is quite simple. It is impregnated with dark colors. We can log in to any site of the
web through the main page. We can find lots of barbarities related to Martin Luther King, We
also find links that addresses us to the wrong Website. We can even find a crazy Video of
Martin Luther King Educational.
Bias: Who published this web site? Is there evidence of bias? How did you verify the
accuracy of the contents of this web page?:
The Website is hosted by Stormfront. You can have to MLK Discussion Forum. We couldn´t
verify it because the information that it´s published in not true.
Author: Who is the author? What credentials does the author have?:
We can´t find an author. In the King Holiday it reprints an article of Samuel Francis. In Not
Out of Africa we find an article written by Mary Lefkowitz. In Martin Luther King and Realyty
the article is by James Buchanan.
When and where: When was the page created and/or when was the information on the
website last updated?:
We have just found a date in a “new resource” and it was dated the 1-15-2003.
Accuracy: Is information contained on this website supported by information on other
reputable websites? What other websites did you compare with this one to check for
accuracy? You must compare information on this website to at least one other
reputable website (give name of site and URL):
We found a site in which you can find several resources about MLK and it´s useful to
compare them with the others. http://www.thekingcenter.org/. You can also find his
Biography in this one: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-
bio.html .
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2. Readability: What is the readability level of the web page according to MS Word?
We have OpenOffice so I am not able to answer this question.
Educational Value: Why was this page put on the web? To inform? Persuade? Sell?
Satire or parody? Deceive/misinform? Would you use this web page with K-12
students? Why or why not?
This page could have been created just for fun and parody or maybe to confuse people and
persuade them of something that it´s not reals.
We would probably use it with K-12 students not because of the content but to make them
understand that they can´t trust every website that they visit.
Part 2: Educational Website Assessment
Website 1: San Diego Zoo, Kids.
Content Area and Grade Level/Intended Audience:
Science for kids. Animals, kingdoms...
It can be addressed to different ages. We can find activities in which they have to paint
maybe for pre K but we can also find information about animals for high levels.
Website URL:
http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/activities
Website Description:
It´s a very varied web page that provide us information of the five animal kingdoms.
The site transmits happiness. You can find lots of resources in it such as: activities, games,
videos or even crafts.
Bias: Who published this web site? Is there evidence of bias? How did you verify the
accuracy of the contents of this web page?
The site is created by “San Diego Zoo Global”.
We trust the contents because the owner is a zoo and the site is supervised under the
copyright law
Author: Who is the author? What credentials does the author have?
The web site is created by San diego Zoo. We have references of Safari Park,
Conservation, Shop Zoo and Zoo Newsletter.
It´s the official page of that Zoo and It follows the Copyright law.
When and where: When was the page created and/or when was the information on the
website last updated?
It doesn´t say when it was created. We can see lots of new resources that are under the
2012 copyright law so the web must have been last updated recently.
Accuracy: Is information contained on this website supported by information on other
reputable websites? What other websites did you compare with this one to check for
accuracy?
The website is supported by Safari Park, Conservation, Shop Zoo and Zoo Newsletter.
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4. Accuracy: Is information contained on this website supported by information on other
reputable websites? What other websites did you compare with this one to check for
accuracy? You must compare information on this website to at least one other
reputable website (give name of site and URL).
This page is supported by the USDA so we can have a look in that page and make sure that
the information is accurate as it is this case. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/Fpyr/pmap.htm
Readability: What is the readability level of the web page according to MS Word?
We have office
Educational Value: Why was this page put on the web? To inform? Persuade? Sell?
Satire or parody? Deceive or misinform? Would you use this web page with K-12
students? Why or why not?
It´s an informative page. Pupils can also have the opportunity of buying a newspaper so
they pretend to sell something with that advertisement.
We wouldn´t use this site with K-12 furthermore we can also find the same page for teens
(so for higher levels we would use that site).
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