Post-1_Website-evaluation
Are you sometimes overwhelmed with the amount of information on the internet? Do you feel it necessary to understand how reliable the information you are reading is? Do you think your students should be made aware of the internet safety and security? If you answered "yes" to these questions, then it would be useful for you to get acquainted with the criteria for web-site evaluation and then practise using them yourselves first and then teach your students how to stay safe and secure online. Have a look at the list of criteria for web-site evaluation created by M. Krauss and Anholt from the USA who specialise in teaching courses of ICT in the language classroom for Ts around the world. Then use them to evaluate the resources listed after these criteria: Answer the following questions "yes" or "no". If you have more than 9 "Yes" answers, you can use resource you have found or were recommended to use. OBJECTIVITY/ADVOCACY: Some articles are...