Web Site Credibility Exercises (Edited 11/06/06 ADA)

Link to the following sites and evaluate their credibility. Develop your own criteria for credibility and determine a method for finding out if a site has met the criteris.  If this is not possible try Web Evaluation Criteria. For help using the web to verify credibility check TipsEvalInfoWeb.htm

Some help developing your evaluation skills

1. (1)-
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
A "Historical Writings" and a biographical "tribute" to Dr. King?

2. (2)-
 http://www.ibiblio.org/team/history/controversy/abutz/intro.html
Looks good was formally from an academic institution [http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~abutz/di/intro.html].  The author Professor Arthur R. Butz, I believe has now retired so the document is no longer available on the Northwestern University site.

3. (4)-
http://www.steves-digicams.com/default.htm
This is an online source designed to help potential buyers of digital cameras make a decision. Is this a credible source?  Why or why not?

4. (8)-
Evaluate the following as a group:

http://www.dhmo.org/ A Con position on the availability of DHMO.
http://www.armory.com/~crisper/DHMO/ A proponent of DHMO

9. (19)--
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 Online Encyclopedia

10. (23)--
http://www.kbb.com/
Kelly Blue Book.  Car prices.

http://www.carfax.com/
"Order a CARFAX Vehicle History Report... the first step to protecting yourself against buying used cars with costly hidden problems."

Books- Use your web and Critical Thinking skills to evalaute the following:
11. (27)-

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken.  Use your web skills to find out about the book and the author.