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Here is the second half of the Fake web sites sent to me.  I'm so excited!

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The best lesson I did all year, I used 2 sites--just google "Tree Octopus"
and you should get the Zapatopi.com site.  You can get the official tshirt,
pin, bumper stickers, etc.  I even got a stuffed octopus and a "Save the
Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus" display (I put books about UFO's,
Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, etc., in the display, and the kids STILL didn't
make the connection).  I even had my teachers believing tree octopi were
real!  The other is the Federal Zombie and Vampire Registration Site--it has
to be real, because they use an official government seal on the home page,
right?

 

If you come up with other pages (and I know there are a ton out there),
would you mind posting a HIT?  I have to do something different with my 7th
& 8th graders next year, since they're all clued in to the tree octopus
now...

 

I've collected some

http://delicious.com/nmtc_Librarian/IsThisReal

www.thedogisland.com

It's an absolutely hilarious website about an island where you can send your
dogs to live.  I had my 5th graders fill out a shot questionaire about it
where I had them navigating the website.  I made them tell me the copyright
date, go to FAQs, and tell me the facilities.  Then I had them read the
disclaimer, which clearly states that the website is fake.  It's a really
funny website, though, and my 5th graders loved it.

 

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You might look at uncyclopedia at
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

 

 

Here is a page I put together for my 5th graders -
http://www.wcboe.k12.md.us/custom_pages/005/Main/hoaxsites.htm

 

 

Try these (one is real though).

http://www.lesd.k12.az.us/webpages/kwestrick/index.cfm?subpage=561121

 

 

 

Northwest Pacific Tree Octopus

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

 

Dihydrogen Monoxide

 <http://www.dhmo.org/> http://www.dhmo.org/

 

 

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

 

It shows up on the first page of results for a Google search for "octopus."
It's pretty hilarious!

 

Please post a hit, it would be fun to see what kind of websites people send!

 

 

*   http://www.thedogisland.com/index.html

Does Your Dog Need a Vacation?

 

*   http://www.dhmo.org/

Check out the dangers lurking in water bottles... dihydrogen monoxide.

 

*   http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html

CA Velcro farmers suffering crop issues this year

 

*   http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

Are people trying to control your thoughts?  Try the aluminum foil deflector
beanie

 

*   http://www.rythospital.com/about/

RYT Hospital--  specializing in the latest nanosurgical technologies, brain
transplants, and male pregnancy

 

*   http://www.fvza.org/index.html

What federal agency is protecting us from vampires and zombies?  Why the
Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency, of course....

 

 

 

If you come to my web page (www.mckayhs.org), click on library and go to
"Evaluations," you will find a list of 20 or so.  The Civil War, and Mars
are two of the best.

 

 

Hi,

Both of these documents contain fake/hoax sites and there are many
duplications because when someone mentions a site I just dump it into the
document without checking to see if it's already there.

No time to weed.

Enjoy,

HOAX/FALSE WEBSITES 2009

http://www.dillon2.k12.sc.us/teachers/searchtools.asp#Fake_Websites_to_Use_F
or_Student_Instruction_on_Using_the_Internet

 

Feline Reactions to Bearded Men

http://www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html

 

The White House  http://www.whitehouse.net <http://www.whitehouse.net/>  

Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie  http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html 

Dihydrogen Monoxide Research  http://www.dhmo.org <http://www.dhmo.org/> 

 Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow Torches http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~pmichaud/toast/

MoonBeam Enterprises and Lunar Travel Agency
http://www.dreamweaverstudios.com/moonbeam/moon.htm

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

British Stick Insects  http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Stick_Insects

Bio defense detector-McWhortle http://www.mcwhortle.com/index.htm

Monitor camera...takes your picture

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3072/camera1.html

Left-handed Whopper release from Burger King
http://www.zbach.com/page%2025/whopper.htm

First Human Male Pregnancy http://www.malepregnancy.com
<http://www.malepregnancy.com/> 

 Jackolope conspiracy http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm Dog Island
http://www.thedogisland.com <http://www.thedogisland.com/>
http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/

http://descy.50megs.com/akcj3/bmd.html

http://www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html

http://www.d-b.net/dti/

http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/

http://www.pmsd.k12.pa.us/schools/hs/library/Bogus.htm

http://andoverhs.anoka.k12.mn.us/imc/bogus.html

http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/browse.asp?folder=83136

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites2.html

http://www.umich.edu/~engtt516/lifetimes.html

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

http://www.genochoice.com/

http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/

http://www.dhmo.org/

http://www.mcwhortle.com/

http://www.malepregnancy.com/

http://www.sandman.com/telco.html

http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i1/barney.

 

This website has both real and hoax sites ready for comparison: :   

http://www.library.ucla.edu/college/help/hoax/evlinfo1.htm

 

 

I do a presentation to our 7th graders about website selection and
evaluation. After I talk about the various aspects of website evaluation I
pretend we are doing a research project on Mars and we evaluate three sites
as a group. We look at one that is inaccurate, one accurate, one irrelevant
(I talk about how easily one gets distracted while doing homework!):

 

http://www.idiotica.com/cranium/encyclopedia/content/mars.htm

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mars

http://www.mars.com/global/Global+Brands/Snackfood/Mars.htm

 

 

Which is the real site for Mankato, Minnesota?

 

http://city-mankato.us <http://city-mankato.us/>    or
http://www.ci.mankato.mn.us <http://www.ci.mankato.mn.us/> 

 

These two sites will give you much to discuss.

 

Check Joyce Valenza's Evaluating Web Pages at
http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/evaluating.html

 

Some of these may not be active. Some of them may be blocked at your school.
My bogus website page is located at
http://www.mckenziehighschool.org/mhs/bogus.htm

 

The mother lode is if you can read about Authur Butz at
http://www.ibiblio.org/team/history/controversy/abutz/intro.html  He really
writes that the Holocaust didn't happen.

 

Take a look at http://muse.widener.edu/%7Etltr/How_to_Evaluate_9.htm

 

Have your students evaluate two of the sites ( Maybe the MLK sites would
work.) in the presentation and then show them the presentation.

 

 

Just an idea that might work for you.

 

I put several hoax sites on this page

www.quia.com/pages/websiteeval.html

 

Here's my (somewhat silly) list. There are some funny sites here. The tree
octopus is a perennial favorite with my students, and believe it or not,
they fall for it.

 

http://del.icio.us/PamatMES/site-evaluation

 

The ones also tagged "bogus" are the fakes.

 

This website fooled even teachers until we took a closer look.  Be  

sure to read the 'For Teachers' link.   http:// 

www.allaboutexplorers.com/index.html

 

There is a list I compiled here, and I think it is pretty current...  

http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html

 

http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/webeval/

eval12.htm

 

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html

 

shambles has a lot of sites listed - also some games, and a variety of
levels depending on the age group you are targeting.

 

I like the one about egg-shaped golf balls and dog island.  Some of our
students had a tough time with the golf balls.

http://www.martinlutherking.org/

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

http://www.idiotica.com/cranium/encyclopedia/content/mars.htm

http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html

 

Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie   http://www.zapatopi.net/afdb.html

Americans for cloning Elvis  http://ww.geocities.com/
americansforcloningelvis Feline reactions to bearded men
http://www.sree.net/stories/feline.html

 

This website has both real and hoax sites ready for comparison: :  

http://www.library.ucla.edu/college/help/hoax/evlinfo1.htm
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.library.ucla.edu/col
lege/help/hoax/evlinfo1.htm> 

 

 

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Tree Octopus  http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus
.html>

The History of the Fisher Price airplane:

http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/fisher/
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.weathergraphics.com/
tim/fisher/> 

 

 

 

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http://whs.d214.org/results/whslibspecial/researchhelps/fakesites.htm
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://whs.d214.org/results/whs
libspecial/researchhelps/fakesites.htm> 

http://www.thedogisland.com/
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.thedogisland.com/> 

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus
/> 

 

Lisa Roberts

Library Media Specialist

Richards Elementary School

5812 Santa Monica Blvd.

Whitefish Bay, WI. 53217

lrobe.ri.wfb@wfbschools.com

 

 

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1. Tree Octopus

2. Texas Jackalope

3. Burmese mountain dog

4. Some of your real whiz kids might like Stick Insects.

5. Ditto Foil Reflector Beanie

Here is the link to my whole list. You might think some others OK but I used
these successfully in the past.

http://www.shsu.edu/%7Elis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html

 

Mary Ann Bell [drmaryannbell@gmail.com]

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I have some websites on my Library Skills Blog that I use for grades 4-6 and
there might be a couple you could use.  You can find it at:
http://csslibraryskills.blogspot.com <http://csslibraryskills.blogspot.com/>
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://csslibraryskills.blogspo
t.com>     Scroll down to the post that has the question marks and is titled
"When in Doubt, Doubt.

 

 

 

 

http://babybushtoys.com/products.html

 

http://www.nathanielgorham.com/ (Nathaniel Gorham as 8th president of the
United States.)

 

http://courses.science.fau.edu/chm2020/news/000058.html (Pros and Cons of
plastics but it's a blog)

 

http://www.crystalinks.com/newton.html Information on Isaac Newton but the
home page is the page of a psychic.

 

 

would be interested in a HIT on this. I don't have any websites, but I do
have a program that talks about evaluating websites. It looks like you are
in a middle school so it may be to elementary. It also deals with online
chatting. As I was working on a link for you, I noticed they've moved these
programs to a web based format, yeah! There are two adventures: Privacy
Playground (1st Adventure) and Cybersense and Nonsense (2nd Adventure). 

 

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/privacy_playground/index.cfm

 

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/cybersense_nonsense/

 

 

 

You might look at uncyclopedia at

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

 

 

www.dhmo.org

http://www.thedogisland.com/

 

or,

just go to http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html !!

 

 

I do a lesson on website evaluation and it's posted on one of my blogs.  If
you go to:

 

http://csslibraryskills.blogspot.com/

 

The scroll down to the post entitled "When in Doubt, Doubt" you'll see links
to websites.  Some are good, some are false.

 

 

I often use this site when presenting to teachers or older students
(sometimes as low as 5th grade). http://www.sree.net/stories/feline.html

 

 

This is one of my favorites.

 

http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/

 

 

Go to this website  It is a great list

 

 

http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html

 

 

false web sites

> 

> I'm sorry this has taken so long. I received many many responses to email

> inquiring about false web sites. This is my compilation. Please excuse any

> duplicates in the list. Thanks to everyone that sent in your lists.

> 

> Feline Reactions to Bearded Men

> http://www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html

> The White House  http://www.whitehouse.net

> Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie  http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html

> Dihydrogen Monoxide Research  http://www.dhmo.org

> Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow Torches 

> http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~pmichaud/toast/

> MoonBeam Enterprises and Lunar Travel Agency

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

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

> British Stick Insects  http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Stick_Insects

> Bio defense detector-McWhortle http://www.mcwhortle.com/index.htm

> Monitor camera...takes your picture

> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3072/camera1.html

> Left-handed Whopper release from Burger King

> http://www.zbach.com/page%2025/whopper.htm

> First Human Male Pregnancy http://www.malepregnancy.com

> Jackolope conspiracy http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm

> Dog Island  http://www.thedogisland.com

> http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/

> http://descy.50megs.com/akcj3/bmd.html

> http://www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html

> http://www.d-b.net/dti/

> http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/

> http://www.pmsd.k12.pa.us/schools/hs/library/Bogus.htm

> http://andoverhs.anoka.k12.mn.us/imc/bogus.html

> http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/browse.asp?folder=83136

> http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html

> http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites2.html

> http://www.umich.edu/~engtt516/lifetimes.html

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

> http://www.genochoice.com/

> http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/

> http://www.dhmo.org/

> http://www.mcwhortle.com/

> http://www.malepregnancy.com/

> http://www.sandman.com/telco.html

> http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i1/barney.

 

 

 

[ http://www.dhmo.org/ ]http://www.dhmo.org/ --- Dihydrogen Monoxide
Research Division -- make sure to go into the Press Pass Page [
http://www.d-b.net/dti/ ]http://www.d-b.net/dti/  --- Dream Tech Clones R Us

 

I use these in a web eval lesson. I would love to see more. Please post a
hit

 

 

Here's a bunch. I haven't checked the links lately (some are not reliable),
but I think you'll find some you can use.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html

 

 

Here are some that I got from listserv responses this year.

 

http://www.umbachconsulting.com/miscellany/velcro.html

 

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

 

http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/

 

http://www.thedogisland.com/index.html

 

http://bigredhair.com/boilerplate/

 

http://www.sree.net/stories/feline.html

 

http://www.ithaca.edu/library/research/AIDSFACTS.htm

 

http://www.google.com/googlegulp/

 

http://www.kidsnetsoft.com/html/bogus.html

 

http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/fisher/

 

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hierakonpolis/zombies.html

 

http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html

 

http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/webeval/eval12.h
tm

 

 

 

Thanks so much for all your responses!!!!!,

Voni

South Cache 8-9 Center Media Center

10 South 480 West

Hyrum, UT 84319

435-245-6433  ext 229

 

"Wicked people never have time for reading," Dewey said. "It's one of the
reasons for their wickedness."  from The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket

 


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