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Module 7 Assignment The thing about quotes from the internet is that its hard to verify their authenticity." - Abraham Lincoln Web Activity: Evaluating Websites for Women and the West It is very important to learn to think critically about information that you find on the internet. Just because it is online doesn't mean it is true (or that it is the whole story!). So how can we know what information is trustworthy and accurate? This week, we will a learn a VERY valuable skill: How to evaluate online information. Since this is a history class, we are looking specifically at online historical information. But, we will be employing and sharpening general critical thinking skills that are essential in the 21st century. In this assignment, you will be evaluating a website that includes information on 19th century/early 20th century Women in the West. You will be evaluating your website for general accuracy, credibility and currency. You will also be evaluating the website for its content relating to women's history specifically. • You can download the instructions as a pdf file or read them below. • Make sure to review the Writing Assignment Rubric to guide your writing and to understand how your submission will be graded. 2. Complete a General Evaluation on your website: Use the Website evaluation checklist to help you think critically about your website. This checklist will guide you through some questions regarding the accuracy, credibility, clarity, and purpose of the site as well as how current the information is. You will not be handing in this checklist, just simply use it to help guide your thinking. Write up the important points of what you discovered in a narrative form (1-2 paragraphs) 3. Complete a Women's History Evaluation on your website: explore your website and evaluate it for how well it presents women's history and a woman's perspective in the West. If it is a general website on the West, search the site for articles specifically pertaining to women. If it is a broad historical website, search for 19th century women. Try looking up some of the specific women we learned about in our lecture and readings this week. Evaluate how many pages are devoted to women and how the information is portrayed. Does the site reflect the diversity of women's experiences in the West? Consider how the site confirms, expands or contradicts information that we have learned in lecture and readings this week on women in the West (and other weeks that may be relevant). As usual, you want to make sure to reference specific details, quotes and primary sources from lecture and readings to back up your ideas and enhance your discussion. Write this up in narrative form (2-3 paragraphs). 4. Combine your above writings into one document and upload this approximately 2 page narrative write-up to the inbox (next page) by the end of the week. • Previous Next Instructions: 1. Choose from one of the following websites for your evaluation: . BlackPast.org Pages on African American History in the American West • San Francisco Digital Archive e • PBS "New Perspectives on the West" - • Utah History-to-Go Angel Island Immigration Station NOTE: this site mainly covers early 20th century history, but it is still connected to ideas we have been exploring about female immigrants (and diversity) on the West Coast. 2. Complete a General Evaluation on your website: Use the Website evaluation checklist to help you think critically about your website. This checklist will guide you through some questions regarding the accuracy, credibility, clarity, and purpose of the site as well as how current the information is. You will not be handing in this checklist, just simply use it to help guide your thinking. Write up the important points of what you discovered in a narrative form (1-2 paragraphs) 3. Complete a Women's History Evaluation on your website: explore your website and evaluate it for how well it presents women's history and a woman's perspective in the West. If it is a general website on the West, search the site for articles specifically pertaining to women. If it is a broad historical website, search for 19th century women. Try looking up some of the specific women we learned about in our lecture and readings this week. Evaluate how many pages are devoted to women and how the information is portrayed. Does the site reflect the diversity of women's experiences in the West? Consider how the site confirms, expands or contradicts information that we have learned in lecture and readings this week on women in the West (and other weeks that may be relevant). As usual, you want to make sure to reference specific details, quotes and primary sources from lecture and readings to back up your ideas and enhance your discussion. Write this up in narrative form (2-3 paragraphs).
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Evaluation of Women’s History Website
Title - Assessing Change: Women's Lives in the American Revolutionary Era
Author – Roberta McCutcheon
Link to local home page – https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/earlyrepublic/resources/assessing-change-womens-lives-american-revolutionary-era
Institution – The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 49 West 45th Street, NYC, 20092017.
Accuracy and coverage –The site focuses on the plight of the women of the American Revolut...


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