Technology Colleagues,

This past week there has been a great discussion on the Digital  
Divide Network, about students' Internet research.*  As part of that  
discussion Cyndi Bowman posted the URL for a terrific Web page of  
tools for evaluating content on Web sites, or as Cyndi describes it  
"that goes through a set of criteria for evaluating websites for  
validity, accuracy and currency. At the bottom are a number of links  
to evaluation instruments that teachers can use with students in  
determining the value of a source. There is also a collection of  
websites to illustrate common fallacies used to dupe the viewer into  
believing whatever they read."

	http://www.usd308.com/hhslibrary/Web_Evaluation.html

Cyndi also has advice on how to rid your research of "searchgunk,"   
"(material found in search engine results that's irrelevant to the  
topic for which you're searching. Not necessarily useless, bad, or  
the result of search spamming -- just not relevant to what you're  
actually trying to find. (From the 3/26 ResearchBuzz Word of the Day  
<http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001556.shtml>)"

This might be useful for teachers who want to help their students to  
critically evaluate information from the Web.

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net


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