Website+Evaluation

NOVEMBER LEARNING: (@http://novemberlearning.com/resources/information-literacy-resources/iii-websites-to-validate/)

All About Explorers: @http://www.allaboutexplorers.com California’s Velcro Crop Under Challenge: @http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html Dihydrogen Monoxide: @http://www.dhmo.org Dog Island Free Forever: @http://www.thedogisland.com Feline Reactions to Bearded Men: @http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html Stormfront: @http://www.stormfront.org The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus: @http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html Victorian Robots: @http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html

KATHY SCHROCK //(@http://schrockguide.org/abceval/)//

Can you find out about the owner of the company? Would you use this site for reputable tornado information?
 * Authority:**www.tornadoproject.com

Would you consider some of these sites biased? Can you find a site that refutes some of the facts presented on another site?
 * Bias**: @http://SmokingSides.com/

Does this site contain citations that indicate where the information comes from? Would you use this site with your class?
 * Citations**: www.pantheon.org/mythica/

Does the date on the home page indicate the last date this page was updated? Does date make a difference in this area?
 * Dates**: @http://www.solarviews.com/eng/history.htm

Does the fact that this site does not stay in the cache make it inefficient? Would you assign work from this page for homework?
 * Efficiency**: @http://cnn.com

Does this collection of images support the use of this site for classroom use? Jerry-built: www.altavista.comType "shcool" in the Altavista query box. What did you find out?
 * Graphics**: @http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

Would you use the information on this page with your students? Why or why not?
 * Knowledge**: www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/FDRdatabase.html

Have you ever been duped by an Internet legend? How could you use this site to help your students understand misinformation?
 * Misinformation 1**: www.snopes.com/

What about information which "seems" real? How could you teach your students to realize when information is bogus?
 * Misinformation 2:** www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html

Is this site easy to navigate? What age group could easily use this site?
 * Navigability:** www.50states.com

Take a look at the rubrics available on this page. Could you easily design one of your own for critical evaluation skills?
 * Pertinent:** @http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/eval.html

What are the criteria used to award each of these kudos? Are awards a viable way to judge a site?
 * Scholastic Reviews:** www.biology.arizona.edu/the_biology_project/kudos.html

Does this site contain any original work? Does it include more than just a link to outside sources?
 * Uniqueness:** www.castlesontheweb.com

JOYCE VALENZA (@http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/evalwebstu.html)

Dino Directory @http://flood.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dino/ Dinosauria Online @http://www.dinosauria.com/ Billy Bear's Land O' Dinosaurs @http://www.billybear4kids.com/dinosaurs/long-long-ago.html Zoom Dinosaurs @http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/index.html DinoBuzz @http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinobuzz.html Walking With Dinosaurs @http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/ Dinorama @http://www.nationalgeographic.com/dinorama/main.html Rex Files @http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/dinosaurs/ Jason's Dinosaur Site @http://members.aol.com/Ermine/index.html Barney's Games Page @http://pbskids.org/barney/
 * Dinosaurs**

Enjoying Hamlet by William Shakespeare @http://www.pathguy.com/hamlet.htm Klingon Hamlet @http://www.kli.org/stuff/Hamlet.html Hamlet and his Other @http://www.clas.ufl.edu/ipsa/journal/articles/psyart1999/silhol01.htm Essays on Hamlet @http://www.hamletessays.com/ Hamlet @http://library.thinkquest.org/19539/hamlet.htm SparkNotes Hamlet @http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/ Hamlet and his Problems @http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw9.html Characters of Shakespear's Plays (William Hazlitt) @http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/criticism/hazlittw_charsp/charsp_titlepage.html The Hamlet Paradigm @http://www.hamlet.org/j_s_mamoun.html
 * Hamlet Sites**:

If you subscribe to GALE's Literature Resource Center, examine Psychology of Hamlet

Bioethics and Cloning @http://www.bioethics.net/cloning/cloning.php Human Cloning Foundation @http://www.humancloning.org/ Cloning: Special Report: New Scientist @http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/cloning/ Cloning is Moral (Ayn Rand Institute) @http://www.aynrand.org/medialink/cloningismoral.shtml I Can Do That! Cloning @http://www.eurekascience.com/ICanDoThat/cloning.htm Americans for Cloning Elvis @http://www.geocities.com/americansforcloningelvis/ Cloning: are Humans Next? (scroll down to "Other Features" menu) @http://www.worldbook.com/fun/bth/cloning/html/cloning.html Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Cloning @http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cosepup/Human_Cloning.html National Bioethics Advisory Commission @http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/nbac/ Roslin Institute Online @http://www.roslin.ac.uk/
 * Cloning sites:**

American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation @http://www.no-smoke.org/ R.J. Reynolds @http://www.rjrt.com/home.asp American Lung Association (Tobacco Control section) @http://www.lungusa.org/tobacco/ Tobacco Free Initiative (World Health Organization) @http://tobacco.who.int/ Tobacco Free Kids website @http://tobaccofreekids.org/ Big Drug's Nicotine War @http://www.forces.org/evidence/pharma/index.htm Coalition for a Tobacco Free Midlands @http://www.tobaccofreemidlands.com/ Phillip Morris Tobacco Company page on Youth Smoking Prevention @http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/DisplayPageWithTopic.asp?ID=75 Children Opposed to Smoking Tobacco @http://www.costkids.org/
 * Smoking and tobacco sites:**

Web Site Evaluation Criteria.pdf
 * Files:**