First PW: Analysis of Websites

Hello everybody! We have been working on practical work N° 1 at this subject, in which we had to deal with some websites and some guidelines for analysing them. First, we divide into groups, and then explored a list of webpages; some of them were really great and some of them not so much. Later, we "dissected" only two of them following guidelines like responsibility, authority, currency, appropriateness and relevance, etc. and last we made some sample activities and introduced them into a hypothetical lesson.

My conclusion of all this work we made is how important it is to teach our future students how to realize if a site is reliable and provides correct information when doing a research. In my opinion, it is a very necessary skill, especially nowadays when the information is no longer found in books and encyclopedias but online in webpages and wikis because they are faster and easier to access. It is highly important to show that “copying and pasting” information is not beneficial. The best that we can do is to read using our critical thinking and our reasoning, selecting what works for the purpose of the research at that moment. Not all the things that we can find in the web are good and we need to learn how to realize that.