How Can I Tell If
The Information On This Site Is Reliable?
This topic is a specialty of
librarians, who are responsible
for much of the information available on the subject.
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California State University Dominguez Hills PT3 Project
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- The
ABC's Of Website Evaluation
- An article from Classroom Connect, authored
by Kathy Schrock.
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- Five
Criteria for Website Evaluation
- The American Library Association looks at the
topic.
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- AWArds
- Outstanding two-part site for educators and elementary
students. Educator site includes detailed printable lesson plans for
web site evaluation. Student section includes animated talking characters
who lead students through the task. The program generates a site for
students to evaluate, a place for online note-taking, and a mechanism
that allows students to email the notes to the teacher. Students may
nominate a site for inclusion in a list of award-winning sites.
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- CTAP
Rubric for Evaluating Educational Materials
- A rubric for evaluating educational materials,
which can be applied to web sites, too.
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- An
Educators Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation
- From a University of Illinois class, this site
explains why we need to teach web site evaluation and how to do it.
Includes links to white papers on intellectual property, plagiarism,
free speech, privacy censorship and computer crime.
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- Evaluating
Internet Research Sources
- From Vanguard University of Southern California
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- Evaluating
Quality on the Net
- A paper by the director of Libraries at Babson
College in Massachusetts,
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- Evaluating
Web Resources
- Developed by the staff at Wolfgram Memorial Library,
Widener University, this very thorough site offers criteria for evaluating
different types of web pages, such as advocacy, personal, news, information
and advertising.
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- Evaluation
of Information Sources
- Information from the World Wide Web Virtual Library.
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- The
Good, The Bad and the Ugly
- This site, developed by Susan Beck, head of the
Humanities and Social Sciences Services Department of the New Mexico
State University Library, includes examples, criteria, lesson plans
and other valuable resources
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- Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators
- Includes .pdf files for k-8 and 9-12 educators,
tours, lesson plans and links to related resources
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- QUICK:
The QUality Information ChecKlist
- Clever art, large type and short, clear explanations
make this site particularly appropriate for elementary age children.
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- Teaching
Undergrads Web Evaluation
- Five tidy criteria from the reference and instruction
librarian at Southwest State University, from the Association of College
and Research Libraries.
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- T.I.L.T.
- The Texas Online Literacy Tutorial is an interactive
online lesson that teaches the user how to find and evaluate
information on the web.
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- Web
Evaluation Rubrics
- Printable worksheets for elementary, intermediate
and secondary students, along with resource links for web evaluation,
web design and copyright issues.
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