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Website Evaluation:
Teaching Students to Think
Janine Lim
Handouts at www.janinelim.com
Email: [email protected]
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Overview
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Searching the Internet
Grammar of the Internet
“Bogus” Sites
Research Planning
Evaluation Tools
Citing Internet Resources
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Searching the Internet: Google
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Toolbar
“exact quote” – check for cheating
nutrition + site:gov
Google Tools…
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Four NETS for Better Searching
• Start Narrow
• Find Exact Phrases
• Trim Back the URL (dealing with 404 Not
Found)
• Find Similar Pages
Source: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm
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PAIR-SHARE
Favorite Search Tools &
Techniques
Tips for Kids Searching
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Internet Grammar: The Problem
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Junk on the Internet
Do we ban
Or do we teach
students from
them to think
using the
critically and to
Internet in
be wise
schools and/or consumers of
for research?
information?
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Grammar of the Internet
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Reading a Web Address
Finding the publisher of a website
History of the site
External links
Source: Alan November, novemberlearning.com
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Reading a Web Address
• http://www.andrews.edu/~freed/resources_
cooplearning.html
Endings
• .edu
• .k12.tn.us
• .com
.org
.gov
.mil
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.ca
.jp
.edu.mx
Who is the publisher?
• www.easywhois.com
• The Martin Luther King site is published by
a White Supremist organization called
Stormfront. Stormfront.org.
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History of the Website
• Wayback Machine
• www.archive.org
• MartinLutherKing.org didn’t used to claim
to be a “valuable resource for students &
teachers.”
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Who Links to the Site
• Who links?
– Google “link: URL”
– i.e. “link: www.adventist.org”
• why did they link?
• What do the other sites say about the site?
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PAIR-SHARE
How do you teach students the
grammar of the Internet?
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Hoaxes & More
• Urban Legends
• Snopes
• CIAC Computer Incident Advisory
Capability
• NEVER forward without checking it out!
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http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
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home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
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www.dhmo.org
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DHMO continued…
• DHMO contributes to global warming and the
"Greenhouse Effect", and is one of the so-called
"greenhouse gasses."
• DHMO is an "enabling component" of acid rain.
• DHMO is a causative agent in most instances of soil
erosion.
• DHMO is present in nearly every creek, stream, pond,
river, lake and reservoir in the U.S. and around the
world.
• Recent massive DHMO exposures have lead to the loss
of life and destruction of property in California, the MidWest, the Philippines, and a number of islands in the
Caribbean, to name just a few.
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http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
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www.nationalgeographic.com/ng
kids/0104/foolery/
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Pair-SHARE
Have you received an email hoax
lately?
Do you use any bogus sites when
teaching students about
information literacy?
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Research Planner
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My Topic
My Big Questions: (Why, How, Should...)
20 - 30 Keywords: (List synonyms too.)
Keyword Combinations: (for more specific
searching)
• Search Engines and Sites I Plan to Search
• Books, Magazines, and Encyclopedias I Can
Search
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Require Internet Notecards
• Website reference
• Analysis of web address – is this trustworthy?
• Analysis of web site owner – are they
credible?
• Analysis of external links – do other consider
this site credible?
• Analysis of history – is this site pretending?
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Evaluation Criteria
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Accuracy
Authority
Objectivity
Currency
Coverage
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Authority
Accuracy
Bias
Currency
Coverage
Design & Navigation
See online handout.
http://library.lib.binghamton.
edu/search/evaluation
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Pair-SHARE
What do you require for quoting
Internet in papers?
What will you require now?
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Bibliographies: Easybib.com
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NoodleTools.com
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Pair-SHARE
When/where/how do you teach
bibliography skills in your school?
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Review
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Searching the Internet
Grammar of the Internet
“Bogus” Sites
Research Planning
Evaluation Tools
Citing Internet Resources
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Internet Research and Projects
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• Sept. 25 - Nov. 3, 2006 (Winter 2007
credit)
• 2 credits
• $250
• 6-8 hours a week online
• Instructor-led
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Questions?
Website Evaluation: Teaching
Students to Think
Janine Lim
Handouts & additional readings &
resources at www.janinelim.com
Email: [email protected]
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