Can You Trust What You Find on the WWW ?
Verifying WWW
Information
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Case Study:Pesticides
---Accuracy
Case Study:AIDS
---Objectivity
Case Study:"andro"
---Currency
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Exercise
---Bill Clinton
---Cell Phones
---Maps
---Smoking
Checklist
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Acknowledgement
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Acknowledgement

Many of the ideas on the following pages have been taken from the Widener University Web Site on Evaluating Web Resources.  Many thanks for their find work

 Commonly to publish a book an author often requests the help of many individuals who give feedback on his or her work.  This  includes other experts in the field as well as the editors for the company which will publish the book.  On the WWW there is no such filter to guarantee that what is published is reliable.

How can we know which information is good and which is bad?

There is no clear method or path to ensure truth in the WWW information, but there are clues that can a signals for reliable information

We call this process of looking for clues:

Verifying a Web Site

In the next sections of this exercise you will find information and examples of some of the clues that you should look for in verifying a web site's information.  Look at the examples and perform the exercises as you come across them

The 4 basis questions we will ask about each web site are:

  1. Who is the Author of the Web Page?

  2. Is the Information in the Web Page Accurate?

  3. Is the Information on the Web Page Objective? 

  4. Is the Information on the Web Page Current?

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Page created by J. O'Donnell, Tech Mentor, Andrew HS, Tinley Park IL last updated on 03/13/00