How Good Are You At Evaluating the Validity of a Website? The sites listed here can be used in isolation or with the Website Evaluation PowerPoint presentation (link at the bottom). Octopus Tree
Mars
Martin Luther King Who? George1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington 1920s http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/century/1920s.htm Ancient China http://www.idiotica.com/cranium/encyclopedia/content/ancientchina.htm George2 http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident/washington What? National http://www.nationalgeographic.com/index.html Move On http://www.moveon.org/ WTO http://www.gatt.org/ Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/ Giraffes http://www.petitelapgiraffe.com/index.php When? Museum of Hoaxes http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html Way Back Machine http://www.archive.org/ Examples: www.astros.com Astros Site on October 28, 1996 http://web.archive.org/web/19961029105652/http://www.astros.com/welcome.htm Where?
Remember Martin Luther King? www.martinlutherking.org www.stormfront.org
and http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Who’s behind this information?
NCAC
http://www.ncac.org Examples of Website Evaluation Tools: Critical Evaluation Of A Web Site Secondary School Level– Kathy Schrock The Internet Detective Website Evaluation: Checklist to Quality – Pearson Website evaluation tutorials Credible Sources Count! Internet Detective Tutorial Jo Cool or Jo Fool YouTube Video Tutorials Octopus Tree http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaOABEHIqIc Emma & Len – Evaluating Websites http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSnm8u7UOwE Prezi http://prezi.com/yacnzanipoc4/beware-of-things-that-go-bump-on-the-web/ Website Evaluation Quiz
A Guide to Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web Quiz -http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think8.html Other Quizzes: Multiple Choice Site Evaluation Quiz Quia - Website Evaluation Quiz Evaluating Website Content Web Evaluation Quiz Alternate Methods of Searching Search @ Census.gov www.census.gov American FactFinder Census Guide http://factfinder.census.gov - Now http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml - Fall Other Internet Searching Resources | 
