Standard 2: The student who is information literate evaluates information critically and competently.

1. Determines accuracy, relevance, and comprehensiveness
2. Distinguishes among fact, point of view, and opinion
3. Identifies inaccurate and misleading information
4. Selects information appropriate to the problem or question at hand

What does the web page address mean?

         How to Read a Web Address http://www.anovember.com/Default.aspx?tabid=159&type=art&site=178&parentid=56

Who Published this page?

Easy Who Is http://www.easywhois.com

Better Who Is http://www.betterwhois.com/

Who links to this site and what do they say about it. This is beyond the author's control.

Advanced Google Search - http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en  
Soople http://www.soople.com/

AltaVista http://www.altavista.com/ with "links:www.yoursite.com"

What did this site look like in the past? Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org

Is it a Hoax or the Truth?

Snopes http://www.snopes.com

Urbanlegends.about.com http://urbanlegends.about.com/

How much did that click cost? Placement on search results do not indicate relevance.

Google Ads http://www.google.com/intl/en/ads/

Yahoo Marketing http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/rc/srch/ (View Bids Tool on right side)

MSN Search http://advertising.msn.com/microsoft-adcenter

Citing Sources http://citationmachine.net/

Evaluations

Digital Index Card http://www.landmark-project.com/evaluation/dic1.php
The Digital Index Card is a web-based tool for collecting and evaluating Internet and other information. It consists of two forms. The first asks for basic facts about the information being considered and for the reasons that the information helps the research answer their question or accomplish their goal. The second form collects more facts about the information so that it can generate a proper citations (APA & MLA).

 

Kathy Schrock - List of Critical Evaluations http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

ReadWriteThink Evaluation Form http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson328/evalform.pdf

KC Tools - I Evaluate http://www.ala.org/aaslTemplate.cfm?Section=k12students&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=21720

Request Permission

Teacher http://www.landmark-project.com/permission1.php

Student http://www.landmark-project.com/permission_student.php

Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division http://www.dhmo.org/

The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

Martin Luther King http://www.martinlutherking.org

California's Velcro Crop under Challenge (1993) http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html

Boilerplate: Mechanical Marvel http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/

All About Explorers http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/

The First Pregnant Male http://www.malepregnancy.com/

Annette Lamb - Evaluating Internet Resources http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic32.htm
Alan November - Information Literacy http://www.anovember.com/Default.aspx?tabid=160
UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
David Warlick - Landmark Project http://www.landmark-project.com/
John Hopkins Univeristy - Sheriden Library Evaluating Internet Resources http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/index.html
*** Practical Steps in Evaluating Internet Resources http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/practical.html