Mt. Carmel High School

Website Evaluation Form

For every website you examine today, you must complete the following evaluation.

1. Website name:  

2. What is the purpose of this site? Provide an example from the site to support choice. (1. personal with biographic data, often called "vanity pages"; 2. promotional to sell a product; 3. "current" to provide extremely up-to-date information; 4. informational to share information on a particular topic or hobby; 5. persuasive as propaganda to convert you to particular point of view; 6. instructional to teach a unit or course of study.)

 

3. Do you see bias in this website?  Explain.
    Either provide a concrete (specific) example of the bias or provide a concrete (specific) example where both sides of an issue are explained.

4. List two pieces of new information that you learned from visiting this website.
    a.)

    b.)
 

5. Since I chose all of these sites, you can assume that they are reliable. Provide an example (documented CD) from the site that proves it is a reliable site. Be sure to use a CD that is different than the information you listed in question 4.