Teaching Your Toddler Body Parts Through Play

Website Evaluation Checklist

Student Name: Erica Morton              Date of Evaluation: 2/11/2011

Name of the Website:  iParenting

URL of the Website: http://www.toddlerstoday.com/articles/toddlers/teaching-body-parts-through-play-1978/

Accuracy of the Web Page	Yes	No	Notes
1.  Can you find the author of the page? Hint:  Scroll to the bottom of the page.  It may be an institution.	X		Author Name: Carma Haley Shoemaker
2.  Can the author be contacted: Hint:  Look for an “About Us” or “Contact Link”		X	Author email:
3.  Do you think this person or institution is qualified to publish this webpage?	X		Why or why not? iParenting is a legit website that contains information to help parents answers all kinds of different questions.
Authority of the Web Page
1.  Check the domain of the URL, particularly the extension.       Is this a commercial site?   The URL can give clues to the authority.	X		What does the extension tell you? The extension tells you about the information contained in the website. It’s an article about teaching toddlers about body parts through play.
2.       Are there credentials listed for the author(s)? If not, try Googling the name of the author or the institution.		X	What did you find? I found another website about Ms. Shoemaker. It states her current and past careers, her education, her experience, recommendations, and other websites you can find her on. There is also a short summary about her
Purpose of the Web Page
1.  Read over the information on this website carefully.  Can you determine the purpose of this web page?	X		Why is this web page on-line?  Think critically about possible opinions or bias? This webpage was created to answers many different questions for parents. There’s pregnancy information, learning or teaching your children different things, health & nutrition information
Currency of the Web Page
1.  Can you find a publishing date?		X	When was it published?
2.  Can you find the date it was last updated?		X	When was it updated?
3.  Are the links working and current? Click on some of the links to check.	X		What do you think about the links? There are many different links and they all work. There are links to: different articles, Q&A information, recipes, links to Disney, and much more.
Looking at your answers, do you think this website would be a reliable, credible source of information?	X		Why or Why not?  This website contains great information for my topic that is reliable and I can easily add a resource for it.