04+October+7

We are meeting in  360406 for class today. This is a computer lab in the International Building (The Building next to JiTao and across from the Art and Culture Center).

Complete the following activity for homework.
=== [|Evaluating Web Resources]: Listen to the Evaluate Web Pages Tutorial and then do the Evaluate Web Pages Exercise (in the PDF file) from the Wolfram Memorial Library at Widener University. This site has a 15-minute multimedia tutorial that teaches you how to evaluate web resources. There is also an exercise worksheet that helps you to review the key ideas in the tutorial. This page has links to checklists for evaluating Advocacy, Business/Marketing, Information, News, and Personal web pages. ===

[|Evaluating Resources]
 * More Web Evaluation Links**
 * Information on how to evaluate resources.

[|Evaluating Web Resources]: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask. From the UC Berkeley Library

Here are two sets of articles on the topic of abortion. What would you need to consider when you evaluate them? [|In-clinic Abortions]

[|Abortion Pain]: Summary of information that used to be on Planned Parenthood site, and some counterexamples. [|Is Abortion Safe?] [|Is Abortion Safe? Physical Complications] [|Is Abortion Safe? Psychological Consequences] //**Here are even more sites with information on what you should look for as you evaluate the information that you find on the internet.**//
 * [|Evaluating Internet Information]: from the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Library.
 * [|Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask]: a UC Berkeley Teaching Library Internet Workshop
 * [|Critical Evaluation Of Resources]: from the UC Berkley library
 * [|Evaluation Criteria]: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources. This site has links to many webpages that illustrate the Evaluation Criteria. Here is a 2-page printable version of the [|Evaluation Criteria Checklist].
 * [|Evaluating Resources: A Brief Guide]. This is an expanded version of some of the information on the [|Evaluating Resources] page that is linked above.
 * [|Critically Analyzing Information Sources]: This is a good explanation of how to evaluate any source. Written from the perspective of evaluating print sources, not internet sources.
 * [|Ban Dihydrogen monoxide]: Activity for web evaluation
 * The [|insect] and [|feline] pages