Website+evaluation

I'm so sorry to be so long posting this hit. I put the websites on my school wiki. http://margaretallenmiddleschool.wikispaces.com/Website+evaluation Eleven are real sites, numbers 1, 9, 15, 17, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, and 32. I made a worksheet that had 4 columns; Hoax, True, Helpful, and a comment section of why they answered the way they did. We spent a day going over the characteristics of a good website and included the fact that most people spend 30-45 seconds deciding whether or not a website is good. They had about 45 minutes the next day to go to the websites and fill out the form.


 * 1) Aspartame
 * 2) Belgium
 * 3) Black Helicopters
 * 4) Boilerplate Robot
 * 5) British Stick Insect
 * 6) Burger King Burger
 * 7) Continental Drift
 * 8) Civil War Facts
 * 9) Civil War
 * 10) Clones
 * 11) Dangers of Bread
 * 12) DHMO
 * 13) Dog Island
 * 14) Flat Earth Society
 * 15) Fruita, CO
 * 16) Google Technology
 * 17) Go Wild in NYC
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Haggis Hunt
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Homework Relief Center
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jackalope Conspiracy
 * 21) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mankato, MN
 * 22) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mayan Kids
 * 23) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Magic Cyber Camera
 * 24) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mike the Headless Chicken
 * 25) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Military Home Buying
 * 26) Pet Friendly Vacations
 * 27) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Republic of Molossia
 * 28) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Rob's Granite page
 * 29) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">RYT Hospital
 * 30) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">Blank
 * 31) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Spaghetti Harvest
 * 32) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Urban Birds of Prey

While linking to alternative search engines one choice and perhaps the best one for younger children, it is also our responsibility to promote the critical skills that would allow children to evaluate this kind of site. That is one of the reasons I created these lessons for evaluating the quality of web sites which include the MLK site. http://www.wiredsafety.org/wiredlearning/Evaluation/index.html