Drive-By Web Site Evaluation

Below are 21 web sites you and your classmates have found as sources for news reports that are due shortly. Using whatever criteria you like, you are to visit each web site and make an evaluation of the quality of the site. You have only half of the class period to complete this assignment. That means you will be able to spend no more than about 1 minute per site. The results of your evaluations will be examined and discussed during the second half of the period.

As part of your evaluation, you might want to rate each page with a number between 1 and 5, with 1 being the worst quality and 5 being the best.

1) A news report on how to channel the power of the brain... The Merlin Foundation for Psychic Freedom http://www.merlin.org/

2) A news report about the Boston Public Library... Boston Public Library http://www.bpl.org/

3) A news report about the White House... The White House http://www.whitehouse.net/

4) A news report about dangers in the environment... Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division http://www.dhmo.org/

5) A news report on the future of the U.S. Air Force... Air Force 2025 http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usaf/2025/

6) A news report on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr...Martin Luther King Jr. - An Historical Examination http://www.martinlutherking.org/

7) A news report on an endangered species... Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus.url http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html

8) A news report on a medieval artist... Jacopo di Poggibonsi, Painter, 1418-1449 http://www.umich.edu/~engtt516/

9) A news report on the gun control issue... About Women Against Gun Control http://www.wagc.com/about.html

10) A news report of world news today... The New American Magazine http://www.thenewamerican.com/

11) A news report on dangerous foods... The Dangers of Bread http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/bread.html

12) A news report on genital herpes... Famvir.com Genital Herpes http://www.cafeherpe.com/

13) A news report on earthquakes... Center for Earthquake Research and Information http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/

14) A news report on effective population control... VHEMT http://www.vhemt.org/

15) A news report on the search for extraterrestrial life... SETI Institute.url http://www.seti-inst.edu/

16) A news report on the state of the Rupublican party today... Republican National Committee http://www.georgewbush.com/

17) A news report on tourism in Mankato, MN... Mankato, MN web site http://city-mankato.us/

18) A news report on the Holocaust... Institute for Historical Review http://www.ihr.org/

19) A news report on AIDS... Little known facts about women and AIDS

http://www.ithaca.edu/library/research/AIDSFACTS.htm

20) A news report on the town of New Hartford, MN… New Hartford, MN web site http://descy.50megs.com/NewHartford/newhtfd.html

21) A news report on cloning... Clones-R-Us http://www.d-b.net/dti/

Created by Art Wolinsky