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Resources and Bibliography

Resources and Bibliography

Cartoon-http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.htmlhttp://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/

John Hopkins- Evaluating Information Found on the Internet- http://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/micro/

John Hopkins- Propoganda, Misinformation and Disinformation-
http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/counterfeit.html

The Internet is not an Encyclopedia- http://www.oit.umd.edu/units/web/literacy/

Webpage Authors- http://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/micro/mm/author/

Wikipedia- http://wikipedia.com

Teaching Zack to Think- Alan November – article on a boy who wrote a paper on why the Holocaust did not exist from resources found on the website(lots of broken links within article but can provoke a good discussion with students)-http://novemberlearning.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=85&limit=1&limitstart=1

Teaching Tools

Large collection of resources on evaluating websites- some broken links but lots of great things here!

http://www.frankwbaker.com/infolit.htm

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly- activity on evaluating websites- http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalexpl.html

Modules on components of website evaluation-http://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/micro/

Internet Detective- Activity- http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.html

Sample Case that walks you through evaluating sources (portion of activity from Internet Detective)-http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/caseofsuspectsource.html

Sample Case that walks you through evaluation of questionable content (portion of activity from Internet Detective)-http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/questionablecontent.html

Websites that are shams

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