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Web Sources to Evaluate

Answer the questions on your worksheet about the pair of Web-based sources below that you are assigned. You will be determining the quality of each Web site. (See Website Evaluation Tips below)

Pair #	Web Source A	Web Source B
1.	A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust	Holocaust Revisionism
2.	Male pregnancy now an option	Rythospital
3.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	The King Center
4.	MAPS: Medical Marijuana Research	Medical Value of Marijuana
5.	Cell Phones and Cancer	ACS: Cellular Phones
6.	Dihydrogen Monoxide	Consumer Factsheet on: 1,1,2-TRICHLOROETHANE
7.	Use of Oral Creatine as an Ergogenic Aid for Increased Sport Performance	Creatine Supplementation in Athletes: Review
8.	Official Mad Cow Disease Home page	Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
9.	Summary for Policymakers: The Science of Climate Change	CO₂ Science
10.	Godsend Institute	Cloning Fact Sheet
11.	Secondhand Tobacco Smoke	Secondhand smoke: the big lie
12.	JFK Assassination	Bill Gates Assassination
13.	Sex on the Internet, Observation & Implications for Internet Sex Addiction	Psychosocial Parameters of Internet addiction

Website Evaluation Tips:

For more information see Web site evaluation criteria
To see who owns a domain, go to www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index.jhtml or allwhois.com and type in the domain name (e.g. greeningearthsociety.com)
To see what others think of the site (what pages link to this site), try a link search on google.com Type link:thedomainofthesite in the search box (that is, type the word link, followed by a colon, then no space, then the domain of the site you want to evaluate, for example link:greeningearthsociety.org).

Diane Prorak
University of Idaho Library

Modified: Monday September 11, 2006