Re: Porn-napping & Martin Luther King

[Diane H <daichan@ISLANDNET.COM>]

Art (and everyone else),
    The MartinLutherKing.org site is one of the links on UCLAs excellent
online tutorial for teaching how to evaluate websites.  I have used this
tutorial with the students who come through my library and this site is
especially good for teaching kids how groups such as this twist the truth.
They correctly quote a Time magazine article but then add a little (absurdly
incorrect) information of their own.  I would really recommend people take a
look at this site.  By using it as an example of how to evaluate websites,
we take the punch out of what groups such as this are trying to do.

Diane Gallagher-Hayashi
Teacher-Librarian
Stelly's School
Saanich School District (63)
Saanichton, British Columbia
Canada, V8M 1S8
Diane_Hayashi@sd63.bc.ca
daichan@islandnet.com

"I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a
gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am...I, am a librarian!"
The Mummy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Art Wolinsky" <awolinsky@OII.ORG>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 7:33 PM
Subject: Porn-napping & Martin Luther King


> An interesting report came through today that reinforces the information
> literacy aspects of all of this.
>
> I had a report that a Martin Luther King site was taken over. (I'll list
> the site at the end of this message, but please read through the message
> before clicking on it.) However, when I visited the site is was not
> porn-napped, gambling-grabbed, or squatted on in any way. It was an
> "historical examination" of Martin Luther King Jr. with all the historical
> accuracy of a Holocaust denial web site!!!
>
> So why was it reported to me? Was it someone who wanted me to report is so
> that it would be blocked? Was it someone associated with the site who
> throught that by appearing on the porn-napping list it would garner
> visitors and converts to the racist rhetoric? Was someone testing my
> information literacy skills and seeing if I would live up to my signature
> file big time? Who knows?
>
> Regardless of the motives, it provides us with another opportunity to
> learn. This is a site I think that students could visit as part of any
> number of high school or college courses. Examining a site such as this
> under a critical eye is an essential skill our students must achieve.
>
> That's information literacy on one level. Now let's take a peek behind the
> scenes.
>
> Every web author that want to get a site indexed by search engines, has to
> take a number of steps. First it has to take steps to get the site visited
> by the search engine. Once that is done, they need to include Meta Tags
> within the header of their HTML code. These meta tags are key words that
> will be used by the search engine that visits. It used them to index the
page.
>
> The idea is to include words and phrases that would trigger your page to
> come up if someone used them is a search. Below is the meta content of the
> OII site. You'll notice that the OII tags seek to attract people who are
> looking for the content and services we provide.
>
> Following it is the meta content of the Martin Luther King site. See what
> you think of their tags
>
> OII Tags...
>
> <META CONTENT="OII, Online Internet Institute, technology infusion,
> internet training, systemic change, online training, professional
> development, authentic learning, authentic challenging tasks, online
> equity, technology integration, curriculum development, staff development,
> critical thinking, information literacy, internet integration, educational
> community, critical educational issues" NAME="keywords">
>
> Martin Luther King Tags...
>
> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="MLK, martin luther king, martin luther king
> jr, Jesse jackson, NAACP, integration, Kwanzaa, racism, Black history,
> David Duke, White Civil Rights, Civil Rights, fascism, racism, slavery,
> hate, hate crime, segregation, discrimination, race, martin luther king,
> prejudice, abortion, institutional racism, anti-racism, anti-fascism,
> European-American Unity and Rights Organization, EURO, Anti-Defamation
> League, ADL, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, anti-Semitism,
racism,
> bigotry, hatred, prejudice, bias, Holocaust, Israel, democracy, terrorism,
> militia, Jews, Jewish, diversity, anti-Semitic incident, racist,
> discrimination, Holocaust denial, neo-Nazi, Nazi, Nazis, tolerance, civil
> rights, Black, KKK, kkk louisiana, extremism, extremist, hate crimes,
> skinheads, Middle East, Islamic Extremist, education, White supremacy,
> minority, bias, religious freedom, Constitution, religious right,
> Christian, free speech, war criminals, school prayer, religion, justice,
> hidden children, Internet, World Wide Web">
>
> OK, who is going to make the bumper stickers?
>
> INFORMATION LITERACY
> Don't legislate. Educate!
>
> FYI - The site in question is http://www.martinlutherking.org
>
> Take care,
> Art
>
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