[LM_NET] HS:HIT:Evaluating Websites

[Ann Jenkins <Ann.Jenkins@BUSHLANDISD.ORG>]

Thank you to all who responded.  I got some good information to share.  Ann
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 Take a look at these sites. Some are from university libraries, yes, but 
you can still use it depending of your students reading level

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   A One size fits all type of site: 
http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/research/evaluating_web.html
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   The Good, The Bad & The Ugly or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web 
Sources: http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
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   Kathy Schrock's Guide: 
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/eval.html < 
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/eval.html>  (elementary 
and middle)
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   QUICK: http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm (elementary)
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   Great tutoring site with great articulation between ideas:
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http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/les1/http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
 

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    http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/webeval.html
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   http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/webcrit.html 

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Take a look at something new that has been developed by some professors,
Doug O'Connor and Carl Heine from the Illinois Math and Science Acadamey
and is called Informational Fluency http://21cif.imsa.edu/  Here is the
module on evaluation http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkit/newRkit/evaluation.html
The curriculum is great and the lessons so well thought out.  I have
been using them with my 6th graders to teach searching.  There are
lessons, games etc.  The section on evaluating web sites is on the site
also.  There is also a ning off of Joyce Valenza's page.  Here is the
ning, you might be interested in seeing what others are doing.
http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/group/informationfluency 

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I just did a presentation to staff yesterday on this same topic. I have a
series of links on my school library website that might be useful. You can
find it at: http://fc.msad47.org/~lmcmahon/Teacherinfopg-3.htm   Hope
these links are helpful.

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Kathy Schrock's Educator's guide has a whole page of great links on this 
subject at
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/yp/iypabout.html 

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You can try www.easywhois.com ....
 
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This is a link to Kathy Schrock's page, this is the section on web site 
evaluation. I have used it often and find the 5Ws are simple and easy for 
students  to remember. There are some handouts that can be made into signs 
for your library or a classroom.
http://kathyschrock.net/abceval/
  http://kathyschrock.net/abceval/5ws.htm

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Try this site from Berkley: 
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html .

Then, try this one from Cornell University: 
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/webeval.html

and Cornell's five criteria for evaluating web pages: 
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/webcrit.html 

Or check out the links that follow:
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html

http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/research/evaluating_web.html

from Kathy Schrock:
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/eval.html


Here are eight ways of checking information on web sites. 
http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm

From OSU:   http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/les1/

Check all of them if you have time; there are many more sources if you 
simply google "evaluating web sites."

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Thanks again!  Ann Jenkins
 
 





 

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