[IT Key Skills]

In Unit One you researched use of the web in your institution or locale on your own or perhaps in a small group. Unit Two focuses on how to categorise and evaluate web sites. Throughout Unit Two you will interact with other students who are also studying the web by reading each others' reports and participating in online discussion through using the Discussion Boards. You are going to look at different aspects of three sites we have chosen, discuss these aspects and then write a report to summarise your findings and post it to the site.

Before you start Unit Two have you?

Uploaded your Unit One questionnaire results to Results of Surveys: Who Uses the Web?. If you have done this you are ready to start Unit Two, which focuses on how to evaluate web sites.

These are the sites that you will evaluate in this section.

1. The Internet Movie Database
   http://www.imdb.com
   
   
2. The Government Information Page on Citizenship
   http://www.dfes.gov.uk/a-z/CITIZENSHIP_EDUCATION_ba.html
   
   
3. The Media Channel
   http://www.mediachannel.org/
   

Before you begin Unit Two it would be useful for you to look through the instructions in the Discussion Boards so you are fully informed about how to make the most of the Boards. Go to Discussion Board Instructions now.

Your first task for Unit Two is Categorising Web Sites - go there now.