Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Website Evaluation

During this activity I learned what things to look for that would make a website legitimate/useful. Before I don't think I would've thought to check the copyright date. Of all criteria though, I don't think the copyright is the most important because some information does expire or need to be changed. This activity definitely gave me experience in evaluating websites.  I even think it helped picking a legitimate website like I had (nobelprize.org) because I know all the information I was looking for existed somewhere. That also almost made it too easy though. I will probably practice these skills more when looking at websites so I can gain the experience in recognizing illegitimate websites. I also think one difficulty in the activity could've been (had i had a illegit website) weighing the good/bad and being forced to make the decision when it would still be appropriate to use an expired/ unreliable website.

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