Website+Evaluation

=Website Evaluation=

1. Take the [|Information Literacy Quiz] from Alan November. How did you score? Be sure to read the correct answers as they provide great information and useful tips.

2. Google "Martin Luther King" and __//**look at just the descriptions**//__ of the top 10 sites (don't click to go to the sites). Just looking at the descriptions and the addresses shown, which look reliable for student research. After you make your decision, look at the actual sites themselves. Any surprises?

3. Google "Octopus" and __//**look at just the descriptions**//__ of the top 10 sites (don't click to go to the sites). Just looking at the descriptions and the addresses shown, which look reliable for student research. After you make your decision, look at the actual sites themselves. Any surprises?

4. Look at each of the following websites and decide whether you would consider them reliable sources of information for research by students in public schools. [|The Battle of Monmouth] [|Global Warming] [|Sarah and Angelina Grimke]

5. Go to "[|The Good, The Bad and the Ugly or Why Its a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources]" and evaluate Set One: Smoking and Tobacco and Set Three: Immigration. Are they reliable?

6.Teaching media and information literacy is an important skill for our children. Take a look at this activity - "[|A WebQuest About Evaluating Web Sites"]

7. This is a great article about Information literacy from Alan November [|Teaching Zack to Think]