LEARNING how to evaluate Internet resources
Class discussion: What does a good website mean to you? TASK one : Talk to you partner about what a reliable and credible website means to you. Write your ideas down: TASK two: Go online and visit the websites provided below. On a scale from 0-5 evaluate its reliability/credibility. Justify your opinion. Your rating JUSTIFICATION http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ http://learnenglishfromhome.blogspot.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language http://www.mansioningles.com/ http://www.ehow.com/how_4699082_learnenglish.html Compare your ratings with your partner. Did you arrive at similar conclusions? TASK three : What is a credible website like? Write down the checklist we brainstormed together on the whiteboard. CHECKLIST
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TASK four Read a text on how to evaluate whether a website is credible or not at: http://www.wikihow.com/Evaluate-the-Credibility-of-a-Source Does the text mention some other points to consider apart from the points we already discussed in class? TASK five Go back to task two and go through your ratings once more, this time using the checklist. Are your ratings the same? TASK six Imagine you have to prepare a project for your English class on FAMOUS Irish people. Find at least three credible websites you could base your project on. Page 1: ________________________________________________ Why did you choose it? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 2: ________________________________________________ Why did you choose it? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 3: ________________________________________________ Why did you choose it? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ TASK seven: WRAP-UP Go to www.worlde.net and prepare a worlde on words related to our class today!