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General / Overview

Information Literacy / Credibility

 * Project Look Sharp** - Internet Credibility Resources

Alan November
[|Teaching Zack to Think] [|Information Literacy Resources]- [|Including How to Read a web address]

UC Berkeley
[|Anatomy of a URL] from their glossary of Web Jargon [|Evaluating Web Pages:] Techniques to apply & Questions to Ask [|Handouts & Powerpoints] used in UC Berkeley Classes

[|Wayback Machine] - take a look at how a site used to look in the past!

Google
[|Google]is the search engine most folks tend to use. Google Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum //**Which sites appear as the first returned hits after a search is performed?**// Check out this info: //**Who links to a page?**// use link:http://www.nameofsite.com The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage. For instance, [link:www.google.com] will list webpages that have links pointing to the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the "link:" and the web page url. This functionality is also accessible from the [|Advanced Search] page, under **Page Specific Search > Links**. Check out [|this example!] to see who links to **California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge:** **http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html**
 * [|How can I improve my site's ranking?]
 * [|Technology Overview]
 * [|A simple explanation of Google's Pagerank]
 * [|More info on Pagerank]

**The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning**
examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect peoples sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically. [|Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility] The difficulties in determining the quality of information on the Internet--in particular, the implications of wide access and questionable credibility for youth and learning.
 * Read the complete open access edition [|HERE].**

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Credibility Sites, Resources, Specific Links
**Searching the Web and Understanding Search Engines**  [|AltaVista]  Search the Internet for Web pages; news; and audio, video or image files.  [|Google]  Search the Internet for Web pages; news; and audio, video or image files.  [|Alltheweb]  Search the Internet for Web pages; news; and audio, video or image files.  [|VeriSign WHOIS]  Find out who has registered a domain name.  [|SearchEngineWatch]  Access tips on searching the Web and an analysis of the search engine industry.  [|Wayback Machine]  Access a digital library and archive of the Internet.  [|Search Engine Positioning]  Service providing search engine optimization for clients.

 **Hoaxes and Urban Legends**[|HoaxBusters] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the Internet. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Urban Legends and Folklore] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Articles about urban legends. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Museum of Hoaxes] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Promotes knowledge about the phenomenon of hoaxes.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Fake Sites** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|List of More Hoax Sites] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|The White House] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|California Velcro Crop]

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Decoding URLs and Other Technical Strategies <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|John Hopkins University Library URL Decoder] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Tips on understanding and decoding URLs. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|UC Berkely Glossary of Internet and Web Jargon] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Help with understanding and decoding URLs. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Psalms Scroll]Good site to practice truncating the URL. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Wildlife Trails Education Project] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Good site to practice identifying frames and where are you on the Web. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|link:http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~abutz/index.html in AltaVista] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Good site to practice investigating who links to a particular site.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Articles on Internet Credibility** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Teaching Zack to Think] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> An article by Alan November about a student writing a paper about how the Holocaust never happened. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Grammar of the Internet] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> How to evaluate information on the Internet by Alan November. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Whales in the Minnesota River?] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> New York Times article arguing that skepticism is necessary when navigating the Web.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Teaching Web Evaluation** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Evaluating Web Resources]Many links, including to sites with activities, pages to examine, and sites with strong bias. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|IC You See Guide the the World Wide Web] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> A guide to critical thinking about what you see on the Web. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Examples and criteria that explain why it is a good idea to evaluate Web sources. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|John Hopkins University Library] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Article titled "Evaluating Information Found on the Web" <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|UC Berkeley Library Teaching Tutorial] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Techniques to apply and questions to ask when evaluating Web pages. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Kathy Schrock's ABC's of Web Site Evaluation] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Handouts and lesson plans for teaching Web site evaluation. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators at Discovery School] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Tools for helping students critically evaluate a Web page, including surveys for elementary, middle and secondary school students. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Lesson Plan Ideas** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Web Saavy Student Curriculum] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|New York Times Education Section Daily Lesson Plan] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Education World Curriculum Article] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Media Awareness Web Awareness for Teachers overview]

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