Web evaluation

                                           Internet web evaluation.

On Friday April 12, 2019 I was taken through internet web evaluation. Till that particular day I thought everything that I get from web is right and I used to fully rely on information that I get from internet as soon as I browse the net without any evaluation. On that day I was told web evaluation is very important as any Tom, Dick and Harry can post it on net, so it fully depends on us whether to choose the article that we can rely in long run or something which doesn’t contain any facts and evidences. 

Basically there are five criteria to check the source and they are accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage. I knew that to check the accuracy of the article or any other information one must make sure that the authors have provided e-mail or contact addresses/phone number. To check the authority, I learned we must look at whether the page lists the author credentials and its domains in URL. With regards to objectivity, one must see whether the page provides accurate information with limited advertising and its objective in presenting the information.

 For currency, we must look at how many dead links are there on the page, and also have to look at whether your page is current and updated regularly. Finally when it comes to coverage, we have to see whether we can view the information properly because some articles are limited by fees and some requires some other software and so many complications. So we have to look all in these areas before we depend on any information or any article.

After attending that particular session, I was made clear why web evaluation is important and how we can assure our self that can we really rely on that information or not. I personally feel as being a trainee it’s very important to know how to evaluate the sources because college life is full of doing assignments and making presentations. More over as being a future teacher, one must with equip with ICT knowledge in order to teach the future generation in digital advance world.