What's Good; What's Bad?
Effective Evaluation Techniques To Choose The Best Web Sites

A Presentation by Matthew Durant

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Question

Would You use that web site with your students?

Tasks

1. Challenge:Revisiting your Essential Question
   
2. Introduction: Review what makes a good lesson
   
3. Wrap up last week's lesson 
   
4. Evaluating Web Sites Activity

Background Information

Yesterday, I was at MSNBC.  I read that the Internet now has over one billion (1,000,000,000) web sites. That's a lot of sites. This began the thought process flowing. With all those sites is going to be easy to find the quality information that I am looking for.  So, I chose to go out and search for sites on colonial America for a Hotlist that I am working on with these thoughts in the back of my mind.  I did find some great sites but I also found some real duds.  This brought up more questions. Who made these sites and what is their expertise?  Were they proofed for accuracy?  Are these sites age appropriate.  Are they user friendly?...  It was time to revisit my criteria for selecting quality web sites. 

 

Web Site Evaluation Resources

Evaluating Web Sites

Why Evaluate Web Information
Eight Ways to Check Information on Websites
The Big Six
Cyber Central Intelligence Agency (A Webquest on Web Site Evaluation)
Choosing Great Sites
WWW CyberGuide Ratings for Content Evaluation (pdf)
Evaluating Internet Resources: A checklist
Ten C's For Evaluating Internet Sources
Blue Web'n Evaluation Guide
Critical Evaluation Guide
Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
Evaluation Criteria
Evaluating Information on the Internet
Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
How to Evaluate a Web Page
Evaluating Internet Resources
Web Page Evaluation Form

Bogus Web Sites

Male Pregnancy
California's Velcro Crop under Challenge
Feline Reactions to Bearded Men 
Brain Transplant
Dihydrogen Monoxide in the Dairy Industry
Ladies Against Women
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
Visit Exciting Fredericton
BUY AN ANCESTOR ONLINE
The JACKALOPE CONSPIRACY
Free Forever at Dog IslandThe Bureau of Sasquatch Affairs

 

Activity  

Evaluating Web Sites Activity

1. Opening Activity-  I found this great site “California's Velcro Crop under Challenge”( http://members.unlimited.net/~kumbach/velcro.html)  at my favorite Teacher’s Search Directory, Blue Web’n.  Help me decide if this is a web page I should use in my new Webquest: California’s Agri-Challenge.
   
2. In small groups of five (5), go to the  Cyber Central Intelligence Agency. Your team's mission (should you choose to accept it) is to develop recommendations to help students discriminate fact from fiction on the Internet.
   
3. Develop a guide selection of Internet Resources.
   
4. Participants will use their rubrics to explore web sites.  The first goal is to find websites to include in your webquest.
   

Revisit the Question

Would You use that web site in your webquest?

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