THE GREAT WEBSITE SEARCH

---Learn to be a discerning web surfer

----Finding great websites for your instructor----

----Earn a fantastic prize for the best website!----

---oh, yeah...10 points extra credit-----

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Follow through the UC Berkeley library website evaluation tutorial [link].  Just work your way through all the documents.  The most important is called "Evaluating Web Pages."  Once you've done the tutorial, post the following to the forum on our Ning "Outer Tube" social  network.  You'll see the link to the Great Website forum on the main page when you log on to the "Outer Tube."

• Your Name (of course!)

• One thing new or surprising that you learned about the web or about searching on the web

• What is the Deep Web?

• What can you do at the "Wayback Machine?"

• What kind of information can you find at alexa.com?

You might also check out our own YC library's page on finding and citing information of all kinds, including online--it's a great resource [link]

A few rules:

• You can't use a website that is already linked from the course website. 

• Your website must include images or photos with something related to anatomy and physiology.  If it's a purely text website, it better be a really good one!

• The website must be somehow related to A and P or one of the topics we've covered this semester.  This might be related to health and well-being, activity and exercise, humans in the environment, etc.

• You MUST include a live link (the link opens automatically when you click on it) to your website

• Don't copy anyone else's websites.

Write a nice analysis of your website.  Tell us why it should win a prize.  Be sure your analysis includes:

• Your name

• The website URL (if you don't know what this is, then you will after you do the UC Berkeley tutorial).  Be sure the URL opens as a live link after you post it.

• WHO posted the website?  Be sure you include an individual author of the page you're looking at (if that's given).  But most importantly, be sure you tell the name and type of institution that is posting this webpage, or if it is a personal webpage, make that clear.

• WHY are they posting the website?  To inform?  To persuade?  To sell something?  To fool somebody?

• WHAT kind of information is found on the website?

• HOW does that information relate back to A and P?

• WHEN was the website posted or updated?  How often do you think the information is reviewed or updated?

(whoops--reality check in today's world)

And if you really get bored, there's always Garfield minus Garfield [link]

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