Drive By Web Site Evaluation
Below
are 21 web sites submitted to you by students 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 about 20 minutes 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 after you have completed your drive by evaluations,.
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/
5) A news report
on the future of the
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 news world 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/
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