Presentation and handouts for teaching English Language Learners how to evaluate websites. Students were to find information on their home countries, create an annotated bibliography, and give a presentation.

1. Finding Information – Where
to look?
Google? Wikipedia? Library?
How do you choose?

2. When to use

4. Evaluating Information
Remember the CRAAPP test

5. Evaluating Information
• Currency
• Relevance
• Authority
• Accuracy
• Publication
• Purpose

6. Currency
• When was it written? Last edited?
Scientific Basis of Vegetarianism

7. Relevance
• Is it really related to your topic?
Information on Lithuania

8. Authority
• Who wrote it?
• The URL (web address) and author information
for a web site reveal a lot about site reliability.
• Determining who created a web site is critical
in being able to judge its quality. Generally,
anonymous information and personal websites
should not be used for academic research.
Personal Website

9. Accuracy
• Are the facts right?
Bicholim Conflict

10. Publication
• Who published it?
Project Britain

11. Purpose
• Is there a bias? Why did the author or
publisher create this?
Climate Change