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Checking the accuracy of information on a web page
http://21cif.com/tutorials/micro/mm/accuracy/ Why should we check the accuracy of information on a web page? The accuracy of factual information can help you judge the credibility of the author. Accuracy of information can also provide clues to possible bias in the resource under investigation. Don't rely on first impressions. Ask Questions! How can you check the accuracy of information on a web page? Triangulation of Data: This is a standard for serious research. Find at least three sources that agree on the same data point. If you can't find three credible resources that confirm the data, be suspicious. Is it Accurate? Shall we play a game? Try this interactive micromodule companion for a hands on experience in determining the accuracy of web-based information. Test your skills at: -finding embedded evidence -checking evidence for accuracy -triangulation of data |
 
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Test your skills finding authors of webpages
http://21cif.com/rkitp/elementary/4/author.swf Test your skills finding authors of webpages Easier to trust information on the web (or not) if you know who the author is ... these are online interactive exercises for students to do. |
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A WebQuest About Evaluating Web Sites
http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/evalwebstu.html A WebQuest About Evaluating Web Sites If you are like most students, you are relying heavily on resources from the Web for your research. Not all Web resources are created equal. If fact, there are great variations in the quality of the resources you access. The rule of thumb is "when in doubt, doubt." When you carefully select your resources, when you understand their strengths and limits, you create better products. |
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Evaluating Internet Resources
http://www.eduscapes.com/tap/topic32.htm Evaluating Internet Resources How do I evaluate the quality of websites? How can I teach students to evaluate websites? Where can I find checklists for evaluation? There's lots of good information on the Internet, but you will also find opinions, misconceptions, and inaccurate information. How do you judge the quality of Internet resources? |
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Bubble Comment
http://www.bubblecomment.com/ Bubble Comment A free service that enables you to share personal video comments with others on virtually any web page. Use their web-based web cam recorder to capture your personal video comment. When done recording,'Bubble Comment' provide a unique URL you can use to share with others. You get about 90seconds to give your comment and you need a microphone and a webcam of course. A useful alternative to paper if you were asking students to evaluate websites ... using the rubric you'd already created in class ;-) of course. |
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Blummy
http://www.blummy.com/ blummy is a free tool for quick access to your favorite web services via your bookmark toolbar. It's a kind of drop down menu consisting of widgets (called blummlets) that provide rich functionality. It works on almost every page on the web. Just click on it at your toolbar. One use is to see graphical images of where links go ... might be helpful when evaluating websites. |
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Success! Web Evaluation That Kids Understand!
http://tinyurl.com/2kyk42 Success! Web Evaluation That Kids Understand! Web evaluation is a tough thing to teach. I have handed out evaluation forms and guidelines and talked till I am blue in the face. Kids still tend to accept all information on the web as being equally true and equally valuable. Doesn't matter if it is from The Smithsonian web site or from WayCoolDude.com. So - how did we introduce the idea to students? We did our usual evaluation lesson (We use the Powerpoint that Joyce Valenza includes with Power Tools Recharged). Next they came to the library and used the revamped web citation/evaluation form that we had showed them. It seems to work for 2 reasons .... |
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How can you tell if a website is real?
http://www.kyvl.org/html/kids/p4_use/ForReal.html How can you tell if a website is real ... or the information in them is true or false? |
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Rubric for Rating Web Resources
http://www.trainingshare.com/resources/ Rubric for Rating Web Resources "CourseShare.com has rated the applicable Web sites for overall effectiveness. The following three dimensions were used to evaluate effectiveness: ease of use, content richness, and resourcefulness. These dimensions and their characteristics are described in the table below. First, each Web site was assigned a value between 1 and 3 points for each dimension, where 1 is poor, 2 is average, and 3 is a good. Second, we added the points from each dimension into a single score that ranges from 3-9 points. Finally, we used the following formula to convert points into stars for the overall effectiveness ranking." |
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Evaluating a Web Site for Research Rubric
http://www.nhema.net/rubric.pdf Evaluating a Web Site for Research Rubric Use this rubric to determine if an Internet site is suitable for research. |
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Lesson Plan : medieval artist
http://www.saskschools.ca/~ischool/tisdale/integrated/wysiwyg/teacher.htm Students will determine how to tell if a website is reliable. Students will realize that they cannot trust a web site. Students will determine how they can tell if a web site is reliable. Students will be asked to write a report on Jacopo di Poggibonsi, a medieval artist that copied other peoples work. You may explain that you will be studying plagiarism and that this is an early example. Do not tell them that this artist did not really exist. ... or did he? www.umich.edu/~engtt516/lifetimes.html |
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Rubric for Website Evaluation
http://www.wiredsafety.org/wiredlearning/Evaluation/websiteval.htm Rubric for Website Evaluation "Circle a number for each topic. Add up the score and use the following key to determine the quality of the information found at the web site. There is no magic score that determines quality. You have to use your best judgment in the process. This chart is just a guide, not a rule book." |
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Note Taking ... not what it seems
http://www.wiredsafety.org/wiredlearning/Evaluation/notetaking/index.htm#slide=1 Note Taking ... not what it seems "This (evaluating websites lesson)is disguised as a lesson on note taking. It starts with a Flash presentation on how to take effective notes and then sends students to some great bogus web sites created by Jeff Hastings of the Howell School District. The note taking lessons is appropriate for upper elementary and MS." |
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Evaluating Information
http://www.wiredsafety.org/wiredlearning/Evaluation/ Evaluating Information Helping to Make You Cyber Safe and Information Literate Being able to evaluate the quality and purpose of information you encounter online can prevent a bad grade, but in the case of information you encounter through contacting people online evaluating the quality of that information can prevent a bad or life threatening experience. The activities contained in this section will help you develop critical evaluation skills in your students that will make them Cyber Safe and Information Literate. |
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/infolit/seo/ This is a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) area on Shambles for those webmasters that want to evaluate their website Relative Importance/Visibility in Search Engines and also .. The Potential Strength/Ability of a Page to Rank in the Search Engines |
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MiKids
http://www.mikids.com/Assignments5.htm MiKids | Evaluating a Website with QUICK | Evaluating Content on the Web | |
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Evaluating Websites : Interactive Online Tutorial
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/ Evaluating Websites : Interactive Online Tutorial .. takes about 10 minutes. Multimedia ... Recommended |
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WebMAC Junior : template
http://tinyurl.com/2p7kt WebMAC Junior : template for evaluating websites ... designed for upper primary children. |
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Website Investigator : template
http://tinyurl.com/2sswp Website Investigator : template for evaluating websites ... designed for very young children. |
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COCOA P
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial002b.shtml COCOA P Although some sites have editorial staff and experts to ensure accuracy and quality, many do not. Choosing quality Web sites to use in your classroom or for lesson preparation can be a time consuming endeavor. C = Coverage | O = Objectivity | C = Currency | O = Origin (Author) | A = Accuracy | |
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Evaluating Web Pages: Course
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask .. a course. UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops Techniques for Web Evaluation | indicators of quality information | Rationale for Evaluating What You Find on the Web | |
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Critical Evaluation Info from Kathy Schrock
http://tinyurl.com/5m4e3 Critical Evaluation Info from Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators With the advent of the World Wide Web and the huge amount of information that is contained there, students need to be able to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability. The ability to critically evaluate information is an important skill in this information age. To help you get started with this process with your students, I have designed a series of evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels. Webpage evaluation proformas |
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Resources Evaluation Rubric
http://pac.egreen.wednet.edu/library/bibliography/index.htm Resources Evaluation Rubric |
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Website Evaluation Forms on Shambles
http://www.shambles.net/files/evalwww/ Website Evaluation Forms that can be downloaded from the file area on Shambles |
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Purportal
http://www.purportal.com/ Purportal : provides search access to five of the Web's leading debunking sites | links to other sites about hoaxes, frauds, rumors, and false virus scares | |
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Web Page Evaluation Checklist
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/EvalForm_General_Barker.pdf Web Page Evaluation Checklist A useful pdf file to print out for students (+others) to use. |
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Website Evaluation Worksheet
http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/lmnet.htm Website Evaluation Worksheet + answer key |
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How Do People Evaluate a Web Site's Credibility?
http://tinyurl.com/472t9 How Do People Evaluate a Web Site's Credibility? Results from a Large Study With more than 50 percent of the U.S. population having Internet access, the World Wide Web has become an important channel for providing information and services. As the Web becomes a part of people's everyday lives-booking travel, finding health information, buying products ?there is a growing need to help people figure out whether a Web site is credible or not: Can I trust the information on this site? Can I trust in the services this site describes? As part of the Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab's mission since 1998, the team has investigated what causes people to believe ?or not believe ?what they find online. Similarly, Consumer WebWatch, which commissioned this study, has the goal to investigate, inform, and improve the credibility of information published on the World Wide Web. |
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Evaluating Web Sites > Overview - Key Ideas
http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/les1/ Evaluating Web Sites > Overview - Key Ideas Begin the tutorial by clicking the first link, or select any page to review. Purpose | Author | Content | Coverage | Currency | Recognition | |
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A WebQuest About Evaluating Web Sites
http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/evalwebstu.html A WebQuest About Evaluating Web Sites If you are like most students, you are relying heavily on resources from the Web for your research. Not all Web resources are created equal. If fact, there are great variations in the quality of the resources you access. The rule of thumb is "when in doubt, doubt." When you carefully select your resources, when you understand their strengths and limits, you create better products. |
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Links from a Course on Website Evaluation
http://www.backflip.com/members/ebodwell/12342559/sort=0/ Links from a Course on Website Evaluation |
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How Does Your Web Site Measure Up?
http://digital-literacy.syr.edu/resources/webmac.htm How Does Your Web Site Measure Up? The WebMAC instruments are intended to identify areas for improvement of an existing Web site and/or guidance for the design of a new Web site. Developed by Dr. Ruth V. Small, Professor, School of Information Studies and Director of the Center for Digital Literacy at Syracuse University and Dr. Marilyn P. Arnone, President, Creative Media Solutions, Inc., Oriental, NC and Director of Educational Media, Center for Digital Literacy, these instruments are based on expectancy-value theory and have been tested and validated with hundreds of users. There are four WebMAC instruments designed for educators to use with students to assess the Web sites they use for homework assignments and just for fun (for more information and ideas for incorporating these instruments into K-12 instruction, please see WWW Motivation Mining: Finding Web Treasures for Teaching Evaluation Skills (Linworth Publishing, 1999). Website Investigator is for use with very young children. WebMAC Junior is designed for elementary students. WebMAC Middle targets middle school children while WebMAC Senior is to be used with high school students. Two instruments, WebMAC Professional and the Content Validity Scale, are intended for use by educators to evaluate the sites they use in their teaching or for student learning. |
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ThinkQuest : Evaluation Criteria
http://www.thinkquest.org/oct03may04/evaluation.shtml ThinkQuest : Evaluation Criteria A ThinkQuest Web site presents a topic in a manner that informs, clarifies, engages, and deepens understanding of vital issues |
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Evaluating Online Information
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr194.shtml Fact, Fiction, or Opinion? Evaluating Online Information In Thinking Critically About Web Page Content, Michigan State University reference librarian Terry Link suggests examining the following factors when evaluating the quality of a Web site: |
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I Read It on the Internet! -- Teaching About Web Literacy
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson230.shtml I Read It on the Internet! -- Teaching About Web Literacy Can you trust everything you read on the Internet? Can you trust anything you read on the Internet? Teach your kids which Web sites to trust! |
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True or False? - lesson plan
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/01-1/lp230_05.shtml True or False? - lesson plan Students complete a tutorial on Web literacy and use what they learn to determine the reliability of Web site content. |
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Sizing Up Web Sites
http://tinyurl.com/334hn Sizing Up Web Sites In the information age, we all need to learn to look critically at the web sites we access, just as we have learned to look critically at television programs, newspapers, and magazines (see "Why Evaluate Web Sites?" for more information on the importance of careful screening). But how do we evaluate web resources? There are many guides online and in print with information about evaluating web sites, and each has different priorities and recommendations. We have sifted through several criteria and pulled together some common important themes for teachers evaluating web sites. http://www.enc.org/features/focus/archive/webeval/document.shtm?input=FOC-003222-index |
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TEEM - Teachers Evaluated Teaching Materials
http://www.teem.org.uk Established in 1998, TEEM is the leading independent evaluation service for educational digital content in the UK. TEEM provides teachers with free access to independent, classroom-based evaluations of educational digital content, including CD-ROMs, free and subscription websites and multicurricular websites. Because TEEM-trained classroom teachers write these evaluations, readers can be sure that they are receiving impartial, thorough and reliable advice. TEEM holds a simple brief: to give teachers reliable and objective evaluations of educational multimedia that they can trust. TEEM evaluations enable teachers to source and use multimedia with confidence. Once edited, the results are published on the TEEM website, there are over 750 titles of Key Stage 1 - 4 materials available. TEEM is developing the evaluation of Foundation Stage and Post-16 digital content. TEEM has also produced a series of highly successful evaluations of hardware, including PCs, laptops, whiteboards, printers and projectors. The TEEM website is free to all users! |
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Evaluating Internet Information
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/idle/evaluating.html Evaluating Internet Information - Information comes to us from a wide variety of sources. Can you tell good information from bad? |
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Research and Critical Thinking - Web Site Evaluation
http://my.execpc.com/~dboals/think.html#Web%20Site%20Evaluation Research and Critical Thinking - Web Site Evaluation A list of over 60 resources to help evaluate websites. Concept Mapping | Web Site Evaluation | Research Skills and Tools | Search Tools and How to Use Them | Critical Thinking and the Web | |
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Evaluating Internet Based Information
http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/class/629/cred.html Evaluating Internet Based Information The World Wide Web is expanding at an unbelievable rate. Some experts say that a new site is placed online every 3 seconds!! It is possible for almost anyone to place anything on the Internet. How can we be sure that the information we receive online is accurate? Let us read what some of the experts say. Web Review Tools |
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Rating Sheet for Web Site Design - Evaluation Form
http://www.aea2.k12.ia.us/tutorials/research/eval.pdf Rating Sheet for Web Site Design - Evaluation Form |
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Software and Website Evaluation - Guidance for Parents
http://www.pin.org.uk/ Software and Website Evaluation - Guidance for Parents Many parents are not confident about selecting quality educational resources. PIN provides the UK's respected and trusted independent service for the evaluation of digital learning resources (software and websites) suitable for use at home. |
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Website Evaluation Wizard
http://wizard.imsa.edu/evaluate Website Evaluation Wizard Enter your responses to the questions to evaluate a resource on the Web |
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Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/checklist.html Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet Determine objectivity | Read site documentation | Ascertain author or publisher credentials | Identify citation data | Verify all information | Learn from news stories about fraudulent, rogue or questionable Web sites | |
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Website Investigator (Word worksheet)
http://digital-literacy.syr.edu/resources/Website%20investigator%20instrument.doc Website Investigator Marilyn Arnone and Ruth Small developed an instrument for elementary children to evaluate Web sites. The study focused on three essential questions. Why visit? Why stay? Why Return? The premise of their study was based on the concept that the motivational quality of the Web site would answer their questions. The instrument was tested by 21 educators in conjunction with an evaluation of a children's television show and its companion Web site. |
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WWW CyberGuides
http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html The "WWW CyberGuide" Internet evaluation forms were developed by Karen McLachlan informally as a means of introducing the World Wide Web to novice users in 1996. Since then the Guides have been published in a book, on the Internet, and referenced in journal articles. They have been used in countless classrooms and professional in-service programs. |
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Critical Evaluation of Websites and Resources
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html Critical Evaluation of Websites and Resources With the advent of the World Wide Web and the huge amount of information that is contained there, students need to be able to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability. The ability to critically evaluate information is an important skill in this information age. To help you get started with this process with your students, I have designed a series of evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels. Feel free to use them, and please provide me with any feedback as to their strengths and weaknesses. |
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Assessing the Validity of Online Information
http://tlt.suny.edu/evaluation.htm Assessing the Validity of Online Information Students' ability to evaluate the validity of resources has long been a concern of university librarians and early adopters of the internet for instruction. Finding credible online sources for research can be difficult, confusing and frustrating. The purpose of this page is to provide some general tips and guiding questions for evaluating information found in websites as well as some additional resources for investigating the issue in greater depth eva,uation |www | websites | |
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Ten C's For Evaluating Internet Sources
http://www.uwec.edu/library//Guides/tencs.html Ten C's For Evaluating Internet Sources Content | Credibility | Critical Thinking | Copyright | Citation | Continuity | Censorship | Connectivity | Comparability | Context | |
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