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For resources used in Web 2.0 evaluation, refer to the Web 2.0 Kit

Evaluating Digital Information

Part Five of the series Five Things Today's Digital Generation Cannot do (and what you can do to help) discusses how searchers have to invent their own evaluation standards because schools are not teaching them.

Podcast on Credibility

Frances Jacobson Harris, University Laboratory High School librarian (UIUC) and author of a chapter in a forthcoming book on Credibility, talks about Web page evaluation.

"Calamity" Jane Austin

In this story Janice Cooper shares high school digital evaluation realities.

The Critical Pastafarian:  Evaluation by Authority in a Web 2.0 World

Ryan Deschamps reflects on librarianship and authority in a Web 2.0 world.

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Workshop Tutorials (new) The section on Investigative Searching is loaded with new ideas and activities to teach careful evaluation. Consider ways to use this resource in your class.

QuickPick: Reading URLs

The ability to dissect a URL unlocks three powerful investigative searching techniques

Part 1 - Find the author or publisher

Part 2 - Determine if information is live or archived

Part 3 - Identify the name of the information and who else references it

Teacher's Guide: Personalized Evaluation Searches

How to use Rollyo, Swiki and Google Co-op to create personalized search engines for safe Web page evaluation practice at all grade levels.

Quick Pick: Links To

Using advanced operators to reveal a Web page's unsolicited references.

Teacher's Guide to Action Zone Evaluation Games

Recommended uses for the Bad Apple and Use It! or Lose It! evaluation games in this Kit, including tips and answers.

Teacher's Guide to Bad Apple (Classroom Edition)

Recommended ways to use the five Bad Apple evaluation challenges bundled in the Classroom Edition of this Action Zone activity.

Popular MicroModules on Evaluation:

• Author: Who is the Author?
• Publisher: Who published this Web site?
• Date: How Recently Was the Page Published or Updated?
• Bias: Indicators of Bias
• Evidence: What is Evidence?
• Accuracy of information
• Links from: How reliable are pages that link from a Web site?
• Links to: How can pages that link to a Web site indicate its reliability?

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Find the Date - Interactive Tutorial (New) Having trouble finding the date of publication? If it exists you can find it using these intermediate searching techniques.

Highest Lake Challenge

Find a credible source that answers the question, "What is the highest freshwater lake in Tibet?" in this Timed Internet Search Challenge.

Cell Phone Challenge

Find the accurate date on which the Governor of Illinois announced that drivers under the age of 18 in Illinois could no longer talk on cell phones while driving.

Evaluating Digital Information MicroModule Companions

Three interactive tutorials strenthen investigative skills for finding and evaluating authors, publishers and detecting bias.

Use it? or Lose it?

Two different evaluation challenges (Shakespeare and the Air Car) to determine who is telling the truth.

Elect Susie Flynn

Another Use it? or Lose it? challenge to determine the true nature of this 10-year old's presidential campaign

Bad Apple

Four different evaluation challenges that may be played by individuals.

Bad Apple (Classroom Edition)

Five separate evaluation challenges that compare your investigative findings to those of others in your class.

MicroModule Companion: Bias

What makes an author's work biased? Detect bias in these examples from the Web.

Silly String Campaign

Evaluate this Web site to determine if this is a worthy cause.

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IMSA Evaluation Wizard

How to use our Evaluation Wizard to assess how well students evaluate what they find online.

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Vetted Links (Hoax Sites)

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