Website Evaluation: Teaching Students to Think

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Website Evaluation Teaching Students to Think

• Janine Lim
• Handouts at www.janinelim.com
• Email janine_at_janinelim.com

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Overview

• Searching the Internet
• Grammar of the Internet
• Bogus Sites
• Research Planning
• Evaluation Tools
• Citing Internet Resources

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Searching the Internet Google

• Toolbar
• exact quote check for cheating
• nutrition sitegov
• 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/fournet
  s.htm

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PAIR-SHARE

• Favorite Search Tools TechniquesTips for Kids
  Searching

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Internet Grammar The Problem
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Junk on the Internet

• Do we ban students from using the Internet in
  schools and/or for research?

• Or do we teach them to think critically and to be
  wise consumers of information?

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Grammar of the Internet

• 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_cooplearni
  ng.html
• Endings
• .edu .org .ca
• .k12.tn.us .gov .jp
• .com .mil .edu.mx

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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 didnt 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 Mid-West, 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/ngkids/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

• 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

• Accuracy
• Authority
• Objectivity
• Currency
• Coverage
• See online handout.

• Authority
• Accuracy
• Bias
• Currency
• Coverage
• Design Navigation
• http//library.lib.binghamton.edu/search/evaluatio
  n

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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

• Searching the Internet
• Grammar of the Internet
• Bogus Sites
• Research Planning
• Evaluation Tools
• Citing Internet Resources

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Internet Research and Projects

• www.avln.org
• 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 janine_at_janinelim.com