Web Resource Evaluation Activity #1:
Comparing Web Pages

Using the Evaluating Web Resources - Checklist and its accompanying worksheet, compare the following groups of web pages.  Try to determine the degree of objectivity and, from that, which sites are most likely to be a reliable source of information.

• Welcome To The White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov/) and Welcome To The White House (http://www.whitehouse.net/)



• Tobacco Control Archives (http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/index.html) and Smoking Section (http://www.smokingsection.com/)



• Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (http://www.bcis.gov/graphics/index.htm) and National Network for Immigration and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) (http://www.nnirr.org/)



• Which is the better source for news?  The Onion | America's Finest News Source  (http://www.theonion.com/) or  Google News (http://news.google.com/)



• City of Mankato, Minnesota(http://www.ci.mankato.mn.us/) and Mankato, MN Home Page (http://city-mankato.us/)



• Cloning Fact Sheet (http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.html) and ACME Clone Company (http://www.geocities.com/acmeclonecompany/)