Critically Evaluating the Internet

Take an Internet Savvy Survey

WebWIZARD—Are You a WebWIZARD?
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/infosrv/lue/webwizard/quiz.htm
 
Evaluating Web Sites – A Paradigm Shift
Use the web sites below to answer the questions on the worksheet.
Male Pregnancy
The True but Little Known Facts about Women and Aids
A short introduction to the study of Holocaust revisionism
Office of the President
 

Teaching Visual Literacy Is Also Important

Click on the link below and write down three impressions of the validity of the picture.
Creating Visual Literacy
 
 

Visit www.snopes2.com for clues to validity of the above picture.

Developing An Evaluation Worksheet for Your Students
Use the sites and the Word Examples below to develop a worksheet that your students can use when searching the Internet to determine a site's validity.

Sites

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
Web Evaluation Criteria
How to Evaluate Web Pages
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
Think Critically about World Wide Web Resources

Word Examples (Created by Amphi Teachers)
Web Site Evaluation Worksheet #1
Web Site Evaluation Worksheet #2
Web Site Evaluation Worksheet #3
Web Site Evaluation Worksheet #4
Web Site Evaluation Worksheet #5

Site to Test Validity of Worksheet
Use the sites listed at this site to test the validity of the worksheet you have created for your students.
http://www.keithstanger.com/evalsite.htm

Evaluating Web Pages: Experience Why It's Important

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html#Why

Other Sites to Help You the Teacher

 
A Site with a Wealth of Information for Teachers, Parents, etc.
Web Awareness for Teachers: Knowing the Issues
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/wa_teachers/index.cfm

A Site With Lesson Ideas to Use with Your Students

Pajama Research on the Web: Teaching Students to Conduct Online Research and Evaluate Internet Sources
http://www.public.asu.edu/~vpantoja/workshops/online_research/

If it is on the web is it true?
http://oii.org/cyberu/html/critical.html

An Online Journal for Writing and the World Wide Web

Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/
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