Cybrarian's Cyberworld Web Site Evaluation Updated 9-19-02

Having Fun with Teaching Hoax Sites

  • Hoax Sites
     This is a list of sites that are themselves hoaxes.

  • UCLA Library Help Guides
     An exercise on determining the reliability of websites from UCLA. Students pick sites from those listed and then evaluate them.

  • Better Read That Again
     Web Hoaxes and Misinformation by Paul S. Piper, Librarian, Western Washington University.

  • Hoax Site Lesson Plan
     Students go to a list of websites and then explain what is wrong with the site. An evaluation sheet and questions are included for this lesson.

  • Hoax Site Lessons
     Here is a lesson on evaluating websites that starts with a report on a painter that never existed.

  • Reproductive Cloning
     Don't miss this one. A great hoax website on Reproductive cloning from Dream Works. You can clone Michael Jordan for $79,999. Hmmm, I wonder if they can clone ……. Well, that's another story.

  • Ed Tech
     Also check out Ed Tech: A Discussion of Educational Technology. Do a search on "hoax sites" to find all the above and much more material.

  • Evaluating Internet Research Sources
     From Vanguard University, how to interpret the web for quality sites.

  • Evaluating the Web
     Scholars, scientists, journalists, and business people know it. So do librarians. Information is important. But even more important is knowing that the information you have is valid, reliable, authoritative, and pertinent.

  • Evaluating Web Resources
     From a University Library, this site offers checklists to evaluate many different types of web pages.

  • Information Quality: Is the Truth Out There?
     Find an information quality checklist that lists what questions to ask relating to scope, author, authority, currency, subject treatment and ease of use among other resources.

  • Bookmark his one
    Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators:Critical Evaluation
    Students need to be able to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usabilty. The ability to critically evaluate information is an important skill in this information age.

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