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THE GREAT WEBSITE SEARCH

• Learn how to analyze the quality of a website.

• Explore a topic of your interest

• Find great websites for your instructor and colleagues

Online Forum--post your work here

How do you know whether the website you are looking at provides quality information that serves your needs?  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 our online forum.

• Your Name

• 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?

A few rules:

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

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

• The website must be on a topic that is somehow related to the material for this semester of A and P.

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

• Don't copy anyone else's website.

To get credit for your website, please post a paragraph with the following information to the online forum [link].  I highly recommend filling out the UC Berkeley website evaluation checklist [link].  Then it will be easy to include the following in your posting.  To get your five points of credit, you must include all this information:

• 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.  Normally, the bulletin board recognizes the URL as a website and automatically makes it a live link, but please be sure you check this or you won't get credit for your website.

• 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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