EVALUATING INFORMATION ON THE WEB
www.dhmo.org
www.AllAboutExplorers.com Is this web site useful for students to learn about explorers? [NEW]
University of California at Berkeley: Evaluating Web Pages:Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask:
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages from Cornell University Library
www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/webcrit.html
Deconstructing a URL:
www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/gen-info/facts.htm
Exercise 9.1 Who's the Target?
The New Mexico Media Literacy Project maintains a gallery of TV ads called the Deconstruction Gallery and guidance for teachers and students in the deconstruction of media messages.
http://www.nmmlp.org/media_literacy/deconstruction_gallery.html
Exercise 9.2 - 9.4 Interactive Online Ads; New Ads
Exercise 9.6 Top Level Domains and Bias
- dccps.nci.nih.gov/tcrb/Smoking_Facts/facts.html
- www.forces.org/evidence/evid/therap.htm
- www.rochester.edu/uhs/healthtopics/Tobacco/ [Updated Link]
- www.washingtonvotes.org/2005-SB-5114
- www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=18285
Exercise 9.7 First Impressions
- www.ovaprima.org
- www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
- www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/
- www.d-b.net/dti/
- www.rythospital.com/nanodocs/
- Whirled Bank (www.whirledbank.org) Vs. World Bank (www.worldbank.org)
- Preparing for Emergencies-The Spoof Site (www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk)
Vs. Preparing for Emergencies: the official government site (www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk)
Exercise 9.8 WhoIs Domain Search
Register.com
Whois.net
Whois.domaintools.com
www.who.is/
www.whois.sc/
www.AntiPolygraph.org
Exercise 9.9 Spot a Hoax
BreakTheChain.org [specializing in chain emails]
Snopes.com
Scambusters.org/legends.html
Sophos.com/security/hoaxes/
Hoax-Slayer.com
TruthorFiction.com
Symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html [specializing in virus hoaxes]
VMyths.com [specializing in virus hoaxes]
Vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp [specializing in virus hoaxes] [Updated link]
RESOURCES
AdBusters website:
adbusters.org
Center for Media Literacy website:
www.medialit.org
Critically analyzing information sources from Cornell University Library website:
www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill26.htm
How urban legends work retrieved from HowStuffWorks website:
www.howstuffworks.com/urban-legend.htm
Internet Detective website:
www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/
Just Think website:
www.justthink.org
Kaiser Family Foundation (2005, March). Generation M: Media in the lives of 8–18 year-olds.
Retrieved from www.kff.org/entmedia/7251.cfm
Media Awareness Network website:
www.media-awareness.ca
Media Education Foundation website:
www.mediaed.org
New Mexico Media Literacy Project website:
www.nmmlp.org
Project Look Sharp website:
www.ithaca.edu/looksharp/resources_join.php
Piper, P. (2000, September). Better read that again: Web hoaxes and misinformation.
Retrieved from eContent website: www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep00/piper.htm
Teacher helpers: Critical evaluation information. (n.d.). Retrieved from Discovery Education website:
school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
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