TIC: validating the web site
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The document analyzes two websites about Maria Montessori based on accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage. The first site, http://www.montessori-ami.org/, is validated as it is accurate, authorized by the Montessori association founded by Montessori herself, objective with only relevant advertising, current, and presents information properly. The second site, http://www.biography.com, is not validated as it is owned by a TV network focused on entertainment, not education, lacks contact details, has excessive images and advertisements, and does not properly present information about Montessori.
TIC: validating the web site
- 1. http://www.montessori-ami.org/ http://www.biography.com/people/maria-montessori-9412528 Accuracy The site was created by Association Montessori The site was created by A&E (a TV channel). Internationale . you Can contact them by mail: The purpose is to become human stories entertaining. webmaster@montessori-ami.org . The purpose is to give There is no link to contact them. information about Maria Montessori. This page is not accurate. The site is accurate. Authority The one that publishes the web is the Association The page is authorized by A&E and it is a TV channel that Montessori Internationale. doesn’t have information about education and focuses on It is an organization and it was fundated by entertainment. Montessori herself. We can rely on the web URL You can´t rely on the URL because it is “.com” because it is “.org” This site is authorized. Objectivity The only advertising is about the association This page has many advertisements which have a commercial activities. The objective is to give information purpose. about the association. It doesn´t have enough information. This is an objective site. This is not an objective site. Currency It was last updated in 2012 It was updated IN 2012. There aren´t dead links. There are not dead links. The information is current. The information is current. Coverage There Is a good balance between images and There are too many images, so there is not balance between text. text and images. This page doesn´t requires special software. The information is cited correctly. The information given is free. The page doesn´t require special software to view It is not presented properly. the information. The information given in the page is free. The coverage is presented properly.
- 2. The purpose of this report is to explain which pages we have chosen about Montessori are validated or not for academic investigations. The two web pages chosen are http://www.montessori-ami.org/ and http://www.biography.com/people/maria-montessori-9412528. Considering the accuracy, the first site was created by Association Montessori Internationale. It can be contacted by mail: webmaster@montessori-ami.org. The purpose of the site is to give information about Maria Montessori. So we can say that this site is accurate. In contrast the second webpage was created by A&E (a TV channel) so its purpose is to entertain, and there is no link to contact them. So we can say that this page is not accurate. As regards authority, the first site was published by the Association Montessori Internationale. It is an organization and it was fundated by Montessori herself. We can rely on the web URL because it is “.org”. So this site is authorized. The second page is authorized by A&E and, as we said before, it is a TV channel that does not have information about education and focuses on entertainment. It is not reliable because the URL is “.com” To sum up after analyzing all this aspects we can validate the first site because it is current, it is authorized, accurate, objective and it is presented properly. In contrast we cannot validate the second page because it is only current but the rest of the aspects are not take into account.