Mrs. Highley Media Specialist

Creston Middle School 10925 E. Prospect Indianapolis, IN 46239 Phone: 317-532-6800 Fax: 317-532-6899 Web: http://www.warren.k12.in.us/creston Send e-mail to Mrs. Highley View calendar

This page contains several links to help you evaluate websites.  Good sites have- -accuracy -authority -objectivity -currency -coverage Included at the bottom of the list are links to several "hoax" sites.  We will be examining them to determine just what makes them too "phony to be true".

Useful links USE THIS FIRST. Excellent tutorial on website evaluation. http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/ Use this site first on the second day. Read the first page as you scroll down to the bottom and click "Enter Quick". Start the tutorial by clicking on the figure marked #1. http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm This is the power point I showed you to help with web evaluation. http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/evaluation.ppt Or, if you prefer, here is another tutorial with many examples. http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/wchorror.htm This is an excellent, step-by-step tutorial that will give you examples and have you make decisions on what sites are acceptable. http://library.albany.edu/usered/wwwdex/index.html This page has resources to help evaluate just about any kind of page! Click on the website evaluation exercise link, and then you select from the checklists on the left. http://www.widener.edu/Tools_Resources/Libraries/Wolfgram_Memorial_Library/Evaluate_Web_Pages/659/ Printable form that can be used to evaluate sites. http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalmidd.html A nice, simple checklist to use when evaluating websites. http://library.usm.maine.edu/guides/webeval.html More from Kathy Schrock on evaluating websites. Scroll down to the very bottom to see a list of hoax sites. http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html Examples of websites to use to for such things as bias, authority, misinformation and more. http://kathyschrock.com/abceval/index.htm This "wizard" will take you through different steps and allow you to take notes on a website. http://wizard.imsa.edu/evaluate This teacher's website includes some hoax sites, as well as some pages for evaluation. http://educationwebpage.com/educationwebpage/evaluating_websites.htm The left handed whopper. This started as an April Fool's joke on the official Burger King site. (so it's not an actual hoax now) http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/whopper.html SPECIFIC HOAX SITES START HERE: Here's the California velcro crop page. http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html Save the Pacific Tree Octopus http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html Bureau of Sasquatch Affairs. Hmm.. notice this is the same basic web address of the Pacific Tree Octopus. http://zapatopi.net/bsa.html The Republic of Molossia http://www.molossia.org/countryeng.html The lunar travel agency. http://www.dreamweaverstudios.com/moonbeam/moon.htm The British Stick Insect Foundation. http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Stick_Insects/ Killer Tornado, Kansas, 1938. http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/Conference_papers/SELS96/WoO.html The end of blondes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2284783.stm The technology behind google's great results. http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html Dog Island. http://www.thedogisland.com/index.html Website for the fictititous town of New Hartford, MN. http://descy.50megs.com/NewHartford/newhtfd.html WARNING: Do not get your credit card or checkbook ready. This might look legit at first....http://www.mcwhortle.com/index.htm Would you want to visit the Sellafield Zoo? http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Sellafield_Zoo/ Britain for Americans. http://www.brookview.karoo.net/BFA/index.htm Eastern Active Technology. http://www.ediblegear.com/index.html Many people were fooled by the biography of this non-existent artist. http://www.umich.edu/%7Eengtt516/index2.html This is the #1 website you get in google if you type in "facts about beluga whales". http://www.idiotica.com/encyclopedia/content/Beluga.htm Note that these entries are labeled as "fact" and "encyclopedia". Select any of the topics on this page for a good laugh. http://www.idiotica.com/cranium/encyclopedia/ Did you know there were robots in the Victorian Age? To see more about this site, cut back to just www.bigredhair.com http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html Buy an Ancestor Online. http://www.fulkerson.org/ancestors/buyanancestor.html History of the Fisher Price Airplane. http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/fisher/ Taxonomy (classification) of Barney. http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i1/barney.htm Google Hiring People to Work on the Moon. http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html See the new Google Drink. http://www.google.com/googlegulp/ Facts about the mysterious substance Dihydrogen Monoxide. http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

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