Animal Farm Web Assignment

Your assignment is to fill in the following chart. You will use ease of the web resources listed to do research on aspects of Animal Farm (finding related information on topics such as: Russian Revolution, Totalitarian States, symbolism of Animal Farm, Themes of Animal Farm, or any other topic you would like to choose).

There are three parts:

            1=Evaluate the search/resource services provided

            2=Rate the search/resource services 1-5

            3=Write a summary

This is due to Mr. Gallagher by Friday (22 April) at 6pm. Please send the completed form to mrgallagher@katandpat.com as a Microsoft Word attachment with the following naming convention: last name_first name_class (example: Gallagher_patrick_10b).

 

Animal Farm Web Search and Source Evaluation

             

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www.kartoo.com

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Organization of interface (easy to use)

         
 

Number of results was helpful

         
 

Amount of time needed to find information

         
 

Amount of pertinent (helpful) information

         
 

Rate each of the above on a scale of 1-5 (5=excellent, 4=very good, 3=good, 2=poor, 1=ineffective)

             
 

www.clusty.com

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Organization of interface (easy to use)

         
 

Number of results was helpful

         
 

Amount of time needed to find information

         
 

Amount of pertinent (helpful) information

         
 

Rate each of the above on a scale of 1-5 (5=excellent, 4=very good, 3=good, 2=poor, 1=ineffective)

             
 

www.google.com

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Organization of interface (easy to use)

         
 

Number of results was helpful

         
 

Amount of time needed to find information

         
 

Amount of pertinent (helpful) information

         
 

Rate each of the above on a scale of 1-5 (5=excellent, 4=very good, 3=good, 2=poor, 1=ineffective)

             
 

www.wikipedia.com

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Organization of interface (easy to use)

         
 

Number of results was helpful

         
 

Amount of time needed to find information

         
 

Amount of pertinent (helpful) information

         
 

Rate each of the above on a scale of 1-5 (5=excellent, 4=very good, 3=good, 2=poor, 1=ineffective)

             
 

encarta.msn.com

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Organization of interface (easy to use)

         
 

Number of results was helpful

         
 

Amount of time needed to find information

         
 

Amount of pertinent (helpful) information

         
 

Rate each of the above on a scale of 1-5 (5=excellent, 4=very good, 3=good, 2=poor, 1=ineffective)

             

2

Rank the sources in order of preference (which would you use first, last)

 

www.kartoo.com

         
 

www.clusty.com

         
 

www.google.com

         
 

www.wikipedia.com

         
 

encarta.msn.com

         
             
             

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Write one paragraph detailing why your 1st choice was the best resource for the assignment.