| There are a number of simple classroom activites that students can undertake to develop their understandings of the English Viewing outcome. |
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| Set students to investigate: |
- positioning of advertising in a webpage [why is it often at the top with moving images?]
- use of links [what messages/point of view does the creator of the website want you to get from using the links they provide?]
- weighting of the visual images and text [which information is suggested to be the most important?]
- two similar sites [is one better than the other? Why?]
- bogus sites to see how they are deliberately contrived to parody 'real' sites
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| Involve students in the design of an Evaluation Rubric by: |
- developing a set of questions [3 to 5] that they think will help them to critically evaluate whether a website is a useful and/or reliable source of information for their purpose.
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| A useful antidote to uncritical acceptance of what is on a website: |
- have students create their own websites paying close attention to the design and selection processes that underpin content of their sites.
- have students edit a Wikipedia article and submit their work for approval.
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