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Thank you to everyone who sent me information on this topic. I’m sorry it’s taken me a little while to compile it all. Mostly, I received tons of hoax sites out there – great sources to create fun lessons with! Here is a link to a site about a fictitious painter named Jacopo di Poggibonsi: http://www.umich.edu/~engtt516/lifetimes.html And here is a lesson plan that uses the Jacopo site to teach awareness: http://www.saskschools.ca/~ischool/tisdale/integrated/wysiwyg/teacher.htm The following is a lesson plan that one librarian sent: Today we did a great lesson with our freshmen (who had not had much info literacy instruction previously) using www.carthage.edu/ais/library/exercises/whales/whales.htm I adapted their assessment page (link on that site) by taking out some questions that didn't apply and simplifying the language. The students got a folded sheet of paper with instructions on the front to write down 5 things that they knew about whales ("activating prior knowledge" in teacher talk) =I told them that we were digging in their brains for what they already knew and quick, quick, quick! brainstorming where spelling didn't count (they liked that and I used a stopwatch to give 1 minute exactly. Then they went to the website (my website isn't up so they had to type in the address. After the first group, we told kids ahead of time to watch spelling on library and exercises). They opened the paper to the assessment and tried to answer the first question about date of website and any other 4 questions in just 5 minutes. Next we talked about what they knew about whales and what that website said. Of course the salt water vs. fresh water usually came up first. Some kids noticed misspellings on the page (one of the assessment questions asked about that) and we all said that the date was really old to have no updates. The "expert" has no real credentials listed, no affiliation with university, etc. And the t-shirts to support the 'research' were over $100 each. Lastly, the kids went to the back of the sheet where we asked "Is this a good website about whales?" and "Why do you say that?" and "What did this exercise show you about good websites?" and had a place to write their name (this was for a daily participation grade for that science class) [Then we let them loose to search online for a website about their assigned scientist (the main project) with instructions to let me or the teacher know why they chose that website as good and reliable. Next week the kids will use their website source, a database source and article from reference book to put together either a mobile of fascinating facts or a Wanted poster or a brochure advertising their scientist coming to our school to speak about his/her "new discovery" (like Newton and theory of gravity) - I can't wait to see their projects and display them in the library!! ] Hope you have fun with these sites with your students - the more critically they look at websites, the better, and fun exercises like this sharpen those skills! And here is the list of hoax sites I received: Dihydrogen Monoxide, or water http://www.dhmo.org/ The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Dihydrogen Monoxide - DHMO Homepage http://www.dhmo.org/ RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center's- male pregnancy http://www.malepregnancy.com California Velcro Crop http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html Cats reactions to men with beards study http://www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center's- GenoChoice http://www.genochoice.com/ McWhortle Enterprises http://www.mcwhortle.com/index.htm BoilerPlate http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/ Facts about series http://www.idiotica.com/encyclopedia/ Penguin Warehouse http://www.penguinwarehouse.com/ Welcome To The Collaborative Biodiesel Tutorial http://www.biodieselcommunity.org/ Case analysis of a killer storm (Dorothy&Toto, look for references to Wizard of Oz) http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/Conference_papers/SELS96/WoO.html Create your own genetically healthy child online http://www.genochoice.com/ Buy Dehydrated Water http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/ Mike Sandman – Chicago ’s Telecom Expert http://www.sandman.com/telco.html The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/_eval.html Civil War Facts http://www.idiotica.com/cranium/encyclopedia/content/civilwar.htm http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/browse.asp?folder=83136 http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites2.html RYT Hospital and Dwayne Medical Center...home of the first male pregnancy? http://www.rythospital.com/ "velcro farms" http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html www.thedogisland.com http://www.petsorfood.com/ These pages offer some more information on scams websites out there http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/bogusweb/ http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/emailhoax/ The above two sites are part of the following site: http://www.shambles.net/informationliteracy/ Suzette LaBelle SLMS Student UAlbany Albany, NY suzette@midtel.net --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? 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