Fun Assignment: Look at Terrible Websites

by Dr Davis on September 30, 2009

For this assignment, you must introduce your students to the means for evaluating websites properly.

Here are three good resources:
Berkeley
Cornell
NMSU

Once you have explained how to evaluate websites, give them a couple to look at. Ask them which ones are bad and why.

Then, for homework, have them find a website on a topic they are an expert in that is terrible. Is the information wrong? Is it misleading? Are there gaps in the information?

Have them present their website for two minutes the next class period.

It’s a fun introduction to how to choose good websites, from finding bad ones.

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