Evaluating Web Sites

Evaluating Web Pages

Teaching Zack to Think
This article, written by Alan November, describes the research of a 14 year old who was led to believe that the Holocaust never happened.
http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html
ALA's 700 Great Sites: Selection Criteria: How to Tell if You are Looking at a Great Web Site
Criteria developed by the American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/criteria.html
Evaluating Web Resources
Checklists, PowerPoints, and teaching materials from Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate of Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm
Evaluation Rubrics for Websites
Critical evaluation forms for elementary, intermediate, and secondary students. Developed by Tammy Payton.
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/edu/evaltr.htm
Critical Evaluation Information
Kathy Schrock includes critical evaluation surveys for all grade levels, resources she's developed, and links to web evaluation information by other authors.
http://www.school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

Activities

WebQuest on Evaluating Web Sites
http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/evalwebstu.html
Evaluating Web Pages: Why It's Important
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
ICYouSee: T is for Thinking
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html

"Bad" Sites for Teaching Web Evaluation

Clones-R-Us
http://www.d-b.net/dti/
Evaluation of Resources on the Internet
Scroll to bottom of page for "bad" sites
http://www.hi.is/~anne/webeval.html
First Human Male Pregnancy
http://www.malepregnancy.com
California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge
http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
Dihydrogen Monoxide (a most dangerous chemical compound)
http://www.dhmo.org