Patient Advice and Liaison Service PALS Officers

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• Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
  Officers
• Information Literacy Activity Website Evaluation

Angela Guevara ? Student ID8620013 ?
angela.guevara_at_bsuh.nhs.uk
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PALS IL Activity Evaluating a Website

• Aims
• To provide an introduction to identifying
  authorship
• details when assessing website quality.
• Learning Outcomes
• The learner will be able to
• find out information about the author of a
  website
• identify the domain owner of a website
• identify who links to a website
• make an assessment on the quality of a website

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IL Activity

• Pair work exercise compare two websites
• Worksheet with instructions on
• finding out information on the author of a
  website
• how to find out who owns a website
• finding who links to a website
• Learners to make an assessment on the quality of
• the websites based on this information

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http//www.malepregnancy.com/
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http//www.malepregnancy.com/

• About us RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center
• Authors qualifications Dont know
• URL .com commercial
• Domain owner Virgil Wong
• Google Virgil Wong Artist and Filmmaker
• Links 135 links Blogs hoax websites no
  reliable organisations linking to it
• Overall impression hoax site performance art