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Activity 10B: Evaluating web-hosted information: Credibility

 

 

 



 

The purpose of this activity is to help you to identify the elements of a website that show how reliable it is.

Before you do this activity, we suggest that you read a short article on Credibility of information.

Determining credibility of a website

1.  Look at the following sites and answer the questions:

1.1  In each case, do you think that the author is qualified (i.e. does he/she have enough knowledge and experience) to publish this information?

1.2  What makes you think that this is a topic in which they have specialized knowledge?

A.   Genetics

2.  Share the answers of 1.1 and 1.2 by writing a message to your group(using the subject heading "Credibility").

 

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Once you have completed the above activity, we suggest that you move on to Activity 10C - Evaluating information: accuracy.

 
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