Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of web Resources.

Hello Readers! 

On 19th November 2019,we have attended a workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources.  A session in workshop mode on evaluating quality of web resources. This workshop organized at English Department through Dr. Dilip Barad  head of English department, Mkb university. In this workshop Sir teach us to how evaluating quality of any web resources.  As a  student we have face difficulty in writing assignment or research papers for seminars is to evaluate the quality and authenticity of internet resources provided by search engines. Sir very well explained that how to evaluate the websites.

• Turnitin : 

Turnitin is the global leader in evaluating and improving student writing. The company's cloud based service for originality checking, online grading and peer review saves instructors time and provides rich feedback to students. One of the most widely distributed educational applications in the world. Turinitin is used by more than 10,000 institutions in 126 countries to manage the submission, tracking and evaluation of students papers online. 

What constitutes "Research " for students today has come to mean "Googling ". As a way to address this gap in students skills, Turnitin has developed a source evaluation rubric for educators to share with their students.  The rubric, created by secondary and higher education instructions,  is designed to help students evaluate sources that they use in their writing. 

At the end of this workshop, we have task to evaluate Quality of  any three web Resources. So let's we try to evaluate three web Resources.

• Appendix : SEER ( Source Educational Evaluation Rubric) Worksheet :

1.  3.0. - 4.0. : Highly Credible, quality                            Sources. 
2.  2.0. - 3.0. :  Credible Sources 
3.  1.0. - 2.0. :  Questionable Sources 
4.  0.0 -  1.0. :  Unacceptable or                                           inappropriate Sources. 

• The Rubric is built on five criteria 

In the workshop dilip Sir explained this five criteria. This criteria are evaluated along a numerical scale anchored by an explicit call out to  "Credibility " , a move to make to make the Scroes more informative for students. 

The Rubric is built on five criteria

Authoritative  In Authoritative we checked about the site that is referenced and linked to by authors. Information is well referenced or cited and written by authors with expertise in the content area.

Educational Value  In educational value we have check that Does the site content help advance educational goals? Or instructional goals?

Intent  In intent we have check that is the site a well respected source of content intended to inform users?

Originality  Is the site a source of original content and viewpoint?

Quality  Is the site highly vetted with good coverage of the topical area?

1. Sparknotes : 

• Authoritative : 4
• Educational value : 3
• Intent : 3
• Originality : 3
• Quality : 3 

I have many times refers this website. Spark notes is highly informative and is well referenced to original content. This website also cited and expertise in the content area. This website provide us many instructions and it's source of original content and viewpoint. 

2 . Encyclopedia Britannica  : 

• Authoritative :  4 
• Educational Value  : 4
• Intent  : 3
• Originality : 3 
• Quality  : 2

For educational value in this site we find the biography of any Auothers. And it's also help us to advance educational goals in competitive exam like net or gset etc..

3. Poetry Foundation : 

• Authoritative  : 4 
• Educational Value : 4 
• Intent  3 
• Originality  4 
• Quality  3 

It is a non-subscriptions site that offers authored content. For the educational value in this site we find many poems of many scholars poets in by just one click and it helps to achieve advance educational goals. This site is highly vetted with good coverage of the topical area and this site provides original content. 

So,  the workshop on  Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources is very fruitful for us. We all are thankful to Dilip Barad Sir who organized this workshop and he explained that how evaluating quality of any web resources. 

Thank you....