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Evaluating Web Sites
Whois Database - allows you to conduct a search using the domain name to find
who is the domain owner of a web site.
http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index.jhtml
Want to see how a Web site looked like in previous years use the WayBackMachine
at the following Web site.
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
"Sale of Words" - Want to see how much a site pays in order to show up within
the top hits on a Web search? Go to Overture and type in the url in the search
box. Then click on the link at the upper right part of the screen title "ViewAdvertisers'
Max Bids".
http://www.overture.com
ICYouSee: T is for Thinking - A Guide to
Critical Thinking About What You See on the World Wide Web, Ithaca College
Library
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html
The 10 C's for Evaluating Internet Resources
http://www.uwec.edu/library/Guides/tencs.pdf
What makes a
good web site?
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/webeval.html
Yahooligans - Evaluating web sites - the "Four A's" -
Accessible, Accurate,
Appropriate, and Appealing
http://www.yahooligans.com/tg/evaluatingwebsites.html
The ABCs of Web Site Evaluation
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/pdf/weval_02.pdf
Evaluating a Web Site - Cobleskill-Richmondville HighSchool, Cobleskill, NY
http://www.crcs.k12.ny.us/lib/hs/evaluating_internet_%20site.htm
USING THE INTERNET
Common Questions About Integrating Internet
Into the Classroom
http://www.iloveteaching.com/Internetclass
Beginners Central - This
site is a chapter by chapter format of information on the internet.
http://www.northernwebs.com/bc/
Welcome to the Web -
Includes five sections (Internet, guestbooks, web browsers, searching and
research) about the internet and even a quiz at the end.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/welcome/
Active Learning on the Web - by Bernie Dodge, Dept of Ed. Tech, San Diego State
Univerity
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/Active/ActiveLearning.html
URL Anatomy. What can you learn from examining an url? This site examines the
various parts and explains their importance.
http://www.teachersfirst.com/tutorial/url-new.shtml
Web Resources
A matrix of web resources and lesson plans to match your needs.
http://www.teachersfirst.com/matrix.htm
Home
CITING RESOURCES:
Online citation tool from Calvin College (Knight's
Cite)
http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/index.php
Landmark's Citation
Machine - Online tool to create citations in both MlA and APA format
http://citationmachine.net/
Suggestions of how students in
grade 1-6 should do their citations.(from Nauset Public Schools)
http://nausetschools.org/research/works2.htm
Yahooligans gives some good examples of citing resourses for K-8 students.
http://www.yahooligans.com/tg/citation.html
APA Style Electronic Formats by Dr. Mary Ellen Guffey (Print version published
in Business Communication Quarterly, March 1997, pp. 59-76. Latest online revision,
August 22, 1998.)
http://www.westwords.com/guffey/apa.html
MLA - Modern Language Association Purdue University's web site for citing resources.
Includes examples.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
APA - American Psychological Association Purdue University's web site for citing
resouces. Includes examples.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html
Classroom Connect gives tips and examples on how to cite Internet Resources.
http://www.connectedteacher.com/newsletter/citeintres.asp
University of Illinois, Writers' Workshop Page - shows some good examples of
MLA and APA citations.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/
Home
SEARCH ENGINES
Four NETS for Better Searching
- developed by Bernie Dodge
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm
Search Engines - gives a description of various search engines.
http://searchenginewatch.com/
A table comparing search engines
http://searchengineshowdown.com/features/
Bare bones - good resource, includes tips to searching the Internet. A tutorial
from the University of South Carolina.
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml
Seach Engine Showdown
Good resource on searching the Internt. Contains some good tutorials.
http://searchengineshowdown.com/
Choosing the Best search for your informational needs.
http://nuevaschool.org/~debbie/library/research/adviceengine.html
Kids' Search Tools http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm
Beaucoup - a search tool that helps you find information which is normally not
findable by a search engine.
http://www.beaucoup.com
Fagan Finder - a search
tool that allows you to specify your search and it will pick the "best"
search tool available at the time. You can search for biographies, maps, images,
news, etc.
http://www.faganfinder.com
THE INVISIBLE
WEB
Invisible Web: What it is, Why
it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity
UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html
Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed - article by Robert J.
Lackie, Assistant Professor-Librarian, Rider University
http://www.robertlackie.com/invisible/index.html.
ONLINE BOOKMARKING
TOOLS
iKeepbook marks - free online bookmarking
tool. It was recommended to me by a teacher who uses it often.
http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com/Default.asp
PortaPortal - another free
online bookmarking tool. This was also recommended to me by several teachers.
http://www.portaportal.com/