Module 4: Tasks: Net source Tutorial

1. Look at Global Warming and Energy. Is it an advocacy, commercial, or reference site?
A. The site is an advocacy site. It doesn't really express an opposing point of view.

Different types of sites:
Advocacy - sway opinion
Commercial - promote or sell products/services
Reference/information - provide useful information or services

2. Find the authors of these Web sites:
a.Anthropology Resources on the Internet
b.Internet Public Library
c.Focus on the Death Penalty
a.Copyright © 1996-2006, American Anthropological Association
b.School of Information, University of Michigan
c.University of Alaska Anchorage. Melissa. S. Green.

"The author is responsible for determining what information is provided by a site. The author may be a person or an organization. The author is not the webmaster"

A good way to check for a related site is simply to type, "related: [URL of known site]" into google.

3.Compare these Web sites. Which offers more balanced (both pro and con) coverage of this topic?Angel on Death Row Death Penalty Focus.
Angel on death row provides the more balanced coverage. On the home page you get options for opposing opinions on the subject. On the other hand, Death Penalty Focus is an advocacy site which does not provide any opposing points of view on the subject.

4a.You can locate similar sites sites that "link" to a particular URL using Google or Yahoo!
In the search box, type: link: [URL of known site]

4b.Use Google to determine how many sites have made links to:
1. Internet Public Library -- Search for link:www.ipl.org
2. Go Ask Alice -- Search for link:www.goaskalice.columbia.edu

1. Internet Public Library: Results 1 - 10 of about 5,100 linking to www.ipl.org
2. Results 1 - 10 of about 975 linking to www.goaskalice.columbia.edu

Applying this tutorial to my selected site:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu

This site is definately not an advocacy or commercial site. It is not trying to promote a particular point of view. The suffix of the site is .edu. It is primarily for teaching and education.
.com is designated for use by businesses
.org for use by non-profit organizations
.net for use by organizations involved in network access (like Internet service providers).

The author of my selected site has very strong credentials.
His name is Joe Barker, Librarian, The Teaching LibraryProgram Coordinator Internet/Web Instruction, from the University of California.

The information on this site is up to date. The site states that the content was last updated on March 9, 2007.

University of California, Berkeley Library site is also reviewed on the infomine site.

Web Resources:
"Evaluating Web Sites > Overview - Key Ideas."
http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/les1/index.html
(accessed April 09, 2007).