Robert Eiffert just pointed out to me that the site I listed in my last
post is not actually a blog. And of course he is correct. I was
confusing the site with an associated blog that the site links to. So -
I can probably procede comfortably with my usual techniques. Looking at
this particular student's works cited list as a whole - the sources are
pretty balanced. So it is not necessarily a problem having an activist
website included in the list. I do not take off points for a student
using "advocacy sites" - unless they are depending too heavily on them
and do not include a few more objective sources.
But I know an actual blog is going to show up on one of these works
cited lists and I don't quite know how to deal with that. Some blogs
have an association with an established group. But many/most do not.
How would I go about grading that? Should I require the students to
turn in justification for using any blog they cite? What should that
justification look like? A list of facts/stats verified in other
sources? A list of reputable cites that link to the blog? It really is
confusing for both adult and student researchers.
Jacquie
"The Librarian, whose job is to heal ignorance, to keep life safe for
poetry and to put knowledge smack dab in the middle of the American
way."
From The Philadelphia Inquirer, 9-20-03
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jacquie Henry, MLS
Ruben A. Cirillo High School (GHS)
Gananda Central School District
3195 Wiedrick Road
P.O. Box 609
Macedon, NY 14502
315-986-3521 x 3144
jhenry@gananda.org
http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/indexgcl.htm
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