[LM_NET] Hit: websites for evaluation

["Cowell, Michelle" <Michelle.Cowell@WSR.K12.IA.US>]

Eval websites

http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html
http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
http://bigredhair.com/boilerplate/
http://www.thedogisland.com/
http://www.malepregnancy.com/
http://www.sree.net/stories/feline.html
hoax eval sites, I love the octopus, and zombie's best 
http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/research/AIDSFACTS.htm
http://www.kidsnetsoft.com/html/bogus.html
http://bigredhair.com/boilerplate/
http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
http://www.umbachconsulting.com/miscellany/velcro.html
http://www.thedogisland.com/index.html
http://www.sree.net/stories/feline.html
http://www.google.com/googlegulp/
http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/fisher/
http://www.panexa.com/
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hierakonpolis/zombies.html
how to eval
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/webeval/eval12.htm
http://news.ala.org/ala/alonline/resources/selectedarticles/10reasonswhy.cfm

http://www.umbachconsulting.com/miscellany/velcro.html
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/eval.html
http://library.sasaustin.org/webEvaluation.php
Hoax Sites

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/   Deflector Beanie

http://www.ovaprima.org/   Ova Prima Foundation

http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/   Boiler Plate

http://www.fulkerson.org/ancestors/buyanancestor.html   Buy an Ancestor

http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html   Velcro Crop

http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/Conference_papers/SELS96/WoO.html   Tornado

http://www.dhmo.org/   DiHydrogen

http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html   Google Jobs

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html   Pigeon Rank

http://www.umich.edu/~engtt516/index2.html   Poggibonsi

http://city-mankato.us/   Mankato, MN

http://www.dreamweaverstudios.com/moonbeam/moon.htm   Moonbeam

http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/fisher/   Fisher Price Airplane

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/   Tree Octopus

Here are a few.  J. M. Barrie sites: http://www.jmbarrie.co.uk/  vs.
http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/

Or:  http://whitehouse.com/   vs.   http://www.whitehouse.gov/


Also, here's another useful site:
http://whs.d214.org/results/whslibspecial/researchhelps/fakesites.htm

http://www.gananda.org/webpages/hslibrary/index.cfm?subpage=311003

These are the websites that were deemed our favorites for have students evaluate.  
There is no rhyme or reason to the list yet (my apologies). I wanted to get the 
list out before weeks went by.

Thanks again for all of your wisdom!
Michelle Cowell
Teacher Librarian
Waverly Shell Rock JH
Waverly, IA
michelle.cowell@wsr.k12.ia.us


www.rythospital.com<outbind://1/www.rythospital.com>
http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tests/hoaxphototest.html
http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/
http://www.aclu.org/pizza/
http://andoverhs.anoka.k12.mn.us/Imc/bogus.html

You may have to go to your IT folks to let through the filters.  On the museum of 
hoaxes the first test does not come up sometimes, but test 2 always comes up. Check 
this site out first some of the images may not pass you're AUP.  At my last school 
I cut and pasted some of the pics into a power point and showed them to the whole 
class and had the class vote rather than let them take the test.

 All about explorers is great because it is information that most of the students 
are familiar with.  Christopher Columbus is so outrageous that students always know 
it is a hoax but some of the others are pretty convincing.  I sometimes have them 
look up the explorer in the world book online and then read the hoax site.

I use the ACLU site as an example of bias and as a warning that data mining is a 
real danger.  But we talk about how they have exagerated and work on peoples fears 
with this site.  Kids love it.

I've also used Dog Island as an example of a bogus website.  
www.thedogisland.com/index.html<outbind://1/www.thedogisland.com/index.html> I've 
used our own school website as an example of a valid one and asked questions based 
on that information.

On my library skills blog I have a lesson on website evaluation and there are 
several sites on it, both good and bad.  You can find it at:

http://csslibraryskills.blogspot.com/

Scroll down until you find the post entitled, "When in doubt, doubt!

http://www.wiredsafety.org/wiredlearning/Evaluation/index.html

and

http://www.southfayette.org/schools/ms/library/webquest/index.htm

My email address is changing to 
michelle.cowell@wsr.k12.ia.us<mailto:michelle.cowell@wsr.k12.ia.us>



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