Evaluating Websites

1. C. Flint

3. • I use the first ones that
come up on the results
page.
• I use websites that my
friends/parents/teachers
recommend.

4. Not all websites are credible!!!

5. • Effectively Evaluate Websites

7. Example: https://www.uga.edu

8. • Use the R.E.A.L. method to rate the website
below.
– Earth’s Endangered Creatures
• www.earthsendangered.com/

9. • Use the R.E.A.L. method to evaluate one of the websites below.
– Group 1: Endangered Earth
• www.endangeredearth.com/
– Group 2: Save the Rennets
• www.savetherennets.com/
– Group 3: World Wildlife Fund: About Our Earth
• wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/
– Group 4: Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
• http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
– Group 5: Kids’ Planet: Species Fact Sheets
• www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html
– Group 6: The Jackalope Conspiracy
• www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm

10. Is your website credible or it’s a hoax?
• Group 1: Endangered Earth
– www.endangeredearth.com/
• Group 2: Save the Rennets
– www.savetherennets.com/
• hoax
• Group 3: World Wildlife Fund: About Our Earth
– wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/
• Group 4: Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
– http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
• hoax
• Group 5: Kids’ Planet: Species Fact Sheets
– www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html
• Group 6: The Jackalope Conspiracy
– www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm
• hoax

12. • Not all websites are credible.

13. R Read the URL.
E Examine the content.
A Ask about the author or owner.
L Look at the links.