HUMOR: Spurious (and side-splitting) sites!

["Hastings, Jeff" <hastingj@HOWELLSCHOOLS.COM>]

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Colleagues:

Think you can tell an authoritative, scholarly web site from a "spurious"
one? Think your students can?

Well, If you want a good Friday laugh, check out this collection of web
sites. They started out as an idea I had for teaching information literacy
but I found as I began to create them that they were just so darned fun to
write I just couldn't stop. Soon another nameless SUNY at Buffalo School of
Information and Library Science alum joined in with his contributions.

What we ended up with is the germ of an encyclopedia that includes topics
like "Biomes of the World," "The American Civil War," "The Planet Mars," and
an overview of the exploits of that famous Great Lakes region explorer
"Sheldrake the Beneficent." Believe me: writing them was an amusing way to
pass the long winter evenings, now that spring is approaching, i'm glad to
share them.

See for yourself! Have a look and, if you get the joke, feel free to send me
your own, original spurious web site. You can feel free to mirror or link to
these sites as well, but I hope you'll consider contributing an entry or
two.

find them all at:

http://www.howellschools.com/~hwms/encyclopedia

Jeffrey Hastings
Librarian
Highlander Way Middle School Library
Send YOUR spurious encyclopedia entries in html to:
hastingj@howellschools.com


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