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• Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites
  http://www.library.dal.ca/How/
  Six assessment areas: Authority, Purpose, Coverage, Currency, Objectivity, Accuracy with sites to test each set of assessment tools.
  • Printable checklist for evaluating web sites
  • LibCasts
    
    
• Quick: The Quality Information Checklist
  http://www.avon.k12.ct.us/enrichment/Enrich/quickgr4-0.htm
  An on-line evaluation that covers eight ways of checking information on the web. On-line quiz included.
  Level: Junior, Intermediate
  
  
• The Virtual Chase
  http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/index.html
  Evaluating the quality of information on the Internet.  A printable checklist and on-line tutorial.
  
  
• Information Literacy
  http://novemberlearning.com/resources/information-literacy-resources/
  • Information Literacy Quiz
  • Information Literacy Quiz Answer Key and Follow-up Activities
  • Websites to Validate
  • How to read a web address
    
    
• Blue Web'n Site Evaluation Rubric
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/rubric.cfm
  Evaluation rubric for the urls on the Blue Web'n Site.
   
  
• Critically Analyzing Information Sources
  http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill26.htm
  Listing of criteria.
  
  
• Evaluating Web Sites
  http://www.lib.umd.edu/UES/evaluate.html
  Guidelines used to determine the quality and accuracy of the information found on the World Wide Web.
  
  
• Finding Information on the Interent
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
  Tutorial Table of Contents
  • Evaluating Web Pages- Techniques to apply and questions to ask
  • Evaluation Checklist - 1 pg. pdf file
    
    
• All About Explorers
  http://www.allaboutexplorers.com
  • Read About This Site - The site is intended to teach students to evaluate accurate infomation on the interent and learn to access subscription databases such as World Book Online or SIRS Discoverer
  • Explorers from A to Z
    Do not use these links for research of explorers
    • Lessons - Internet Treasure Hunts
    • Materials - Word and pdf files
    • Explorer Quest worksheets (Word docs): Balboa, Cabot, Cartier, Champlain, Columbus, Degama, Deleon, Drake, Hudson, Magellan.
  
  
• Fact, Fiction, or Opinion? Evaluating On-line Information.
  http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr194.shtml
  Collection of web evaluation sites. Includes lesson plans, evaluation sheets and academic reading on the topic.
  Level: Adult
  
  
• The Good Bad and Ugly: Evaluating Internet Resources
  http://training.fcps.org/tt3/webeval/Evaluating%20Internet%20Resources.ppt
  This site outlines: Why evaluate?, Evaluation Criteria, Specific Types of Web Resources, and Evaluation Tools.
  
  
• Ten C's for Evaluating Internet Sources
  http://www.taftcollege.edu/newTC/Academic/INCO48/sec6-4.htm
  The "Ten Cs" provide criteria to consider for evaluating Internet sources.
  
  
• Evaluating Internet Research Sources
  http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
  Includes the CARS Checklist (Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support).
  
  
• Evaluating Web sites for Children  
  http://www.dalton.org/faculty/rhf/ala/
  Components of web sites are demonstrated with examples of good and bad sites.
  
  
• Evaluating a Website
  http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~pstohrer/eval.html
  Evaluating a web site is no different than evaluating any other instructional tool.
  
  
• Snopes
  http://www.snopes.com/
  Rumours and Hoaxes are dispelled.
  

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