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8.7 Website Evaluation -- Practice

The best way to learn how to evaluate and select web sources is to apply important standards or criteria to each source. Take a look at the websites offered below; (click on the screen shot to visit the website itself in case you want to get a closer look at a site to evaluate it). Click on the link that represents the website that you think offers the most useful, timely, appropriate, and authoritative information for researching whether there is a connection between global warming and hurricanes.

nasa

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/druyan_02/

 

noaa

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/G3.html

 

pennstate

http://live.psu.edu/story/18074

 

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Contents - Module 8
  8.1 Web Resources
  8.2 Addresses, Links, & URLs
  8.3 Search Engines
  8.4 Evaluating Web Sites
  8.5 Shortcut to Quality
  8.6 Internet vs Databases
  8.7 Practice
Evaluation Hints...
  Look for the most useful, timely, appropriate, and authoritative information
  Don't assume that the top search engine results are the most relevant sites

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