Evaluating Web Sites – Putting What You Know Into Practice

 

Using the links at this site: http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalexpl.html

answer the WHO?, WHAT?, WHEN?, WHERE?, and WHY? about each one.  When you have finished your evaluation, circle the most reliable site for each set.

 

Set One: Smoking & Tobacco

 

1.1 The Role of the Media in Tobacco Control

Who?                                                       Where?

What?                                                      Why?

When?

 

1.2 Health Hazards of Tobacco: Some Facts

Who?                                                       Where?

What?                                                      Why?

When?

 

1.3 Secondhand Smoke: The Big Lie

Who?                                                       Where?

What?                                                      Why?

When?

 

Set Two: AIDS

 

2.1 Gender and HIV/AIDS

Who?                                                       Where?

What?                                                      Why?

When?

 

2.2 A Former Aids Researcher Has Second Thoughts

Who?                                                       Where?

What?                                                      Why?

When?

 

2.3 The True But Little Known Facts About Women and AIDS

Who?                                                       Where?

What?                                                      Why?

When?

 

Set Three: Immigration

3.1 The Greening of the Anti-Immigrant Agenda

Who?                                                       Where?

What?                                                      Why?

When?

 

3.2 Operation Desert Safeguard

Who?                                                       Where?

What?                                                      Why?

When?

 

3.3 Illegal Immigration Is a Crime

Who?                                                       Where?

What?                                                      Why?

When?

 

 

Set Four: Drugs, Hormones & Human Tissue

4.1 Human Growth Hormone Stimulation: The Anti-Aging and Longevity Program

Who?                                                       Where?

What?                                                      Why?

When?

 

4.2 Human Test Subjects

Who?                                                       Where?

What?                                                      Why?

When?

 

4.3 Snow Job

Who?                                                       Where?

What?                                                      Why?

When?