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WEB PAGE EVALUATION
Currency: 15
The site has the date of last revision posted.
The site has been updated recently.
Frequency of planned updates and revisions is stated.
Content: 15
The information will be useful to our curriculum and/or student interest.
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The information on the topic is thorough.
The information is accurate.
The purpose of the page is obvious.
The information is in good taste.
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Authority: 10
The authors are clearly identified.
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You can easily tell from the domain name where the page originates.
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The type styles and background make the page clear and readable.
The links are easy to identify.
The links are logically grouped.
The layout is consistent from page to page.
There is a link back to the home page on each supporting page.
The links are relevant to the subject.
The icons clearly represent what is intended.
Experience: 10
The page fulfills its intended purpose.
The page is worth the time.
The page's presentation is eye-catching.
The site engages the visitor to spend time there.
Multimedia: 9
Sound, graphics or video enhance the site's message.
Treatment: 10
Any biases towards the subject matter can be easily identified.
The page is free from stereotyping.
The page is age appropriate for content and vocabulary for its intended audience.
Access: 5
You can connect quickly to the page.
The page is available through search engines.
The page loads quickly.
You can choose whether to download smaller images, text-only, or non-frame versions.
Miscellaneous: 15
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Interactions asking for private information are secured.
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Photos of the storm were popping up on many social networks including Twitter
and Google+, but Instagram data showed at least 521,000 photos with the
hashtag Sandy
On Twitter, some 147,000 pictures were posted over a 24-hour period tagged
Sandy
Instagram has turned my iPhone into a window into all things Sandy with live views of flooding roads, to dangling cranes and drinking friends. It both captures the events unfolding (and unraveling) outside and also gives me a peak into how people are riding out the storm inside.
Instagram captures the storm entirely.
The storm has yet make landfall, but already there have are 300,026 photos shared on the mobile site under #sandy; 183,003 under #hurricanesandy, 27,564 photos shared tagged #frankenstorm and 1,467 marked with #huricanesandy
people sent more than 20 million tweets about the storm from October 27 through November 1. This was more than twice the usage from the two previous days
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largest share of this news and information, fully 34% of the Twitter discourse about the storm, involved news organizations providing content, government sources offering information, people sharing their own eyewitness accounts and still more passing along information posted by others
will almost certainly be the largest storm to ever hit the East Coast, with a reach that extends some 450 miles beyond its core
“We’re looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60 million people,” said Louis Uccellini, head of environmental prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A drone strike couldn’t be better targeted to cause maximum damage than this storm
NOAA put the storm surge threat from Sandy at 5.7 on that 6 point scale—greater than any hurricane observed between 1969 and 2005, including Category 5 storms like Katrina and Andrew. NOAA’s National Hurricane Center says that “life-threatening storm surge flooding” is expected along the mid-Atlantic coast.
This article by Bryan Walsh was published before Hurricane Sandy made landfall. It looks at the scientific data from NOAA's Hurricane Research Centre. As Time is a publication read by a large number of people, as opposed to NOAA, this media outlet provided the general population with detailed storm information and why the storm should be taken seriously.