How to Find Credible Websites for Secondary Education
Teaches students how to find reliable, educated, and credible websites to use for research in the classroom. While also being able to dismiss the fake sites that can create bigger problems for the student.
Author skrollover
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1Credible Websites?
This video would be a good introduction of what a credible website consist of and why they are credible. It will also highlight over other factors of why it's important to know where you get your information.
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2Finding Information on Websites
This is the basic word for word over view tutorial of the basics of what makes up a website and how the authors are important, how it's published, whether it peer reviewed, if they use reasonable websites and references themselves.
http://lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
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3Evaluating Websites
This video has a few tips and ways to remember how to find reliable sources.
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4The BARE necessities
I thought this was a quick and short video that would be useful to remember the factors of successfully finding reliable sources.
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5Credible Sources Count!
This was my favorite website that I found that engages the student in a quick activity of finding the right sources.
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/
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6Jo Cool or Jo Fool
This website has a few resources for students to read through or play the flash games that help tell the fake sites immediately.
http://mediasmarts.ca/game/jo-cool-or-jo-fool/kids
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7Tree Octopus~ Example of a Fake Website for the students
This will be a good example of a fake website, it has parts that make it seem like a legit website, by the way it's made, has multiple pictures and "sightings" of the creature in the forest. Plus it has some humor for the high school students to pick apart about it.
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/activities.html
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8Worksheet/ Handout for Students
This would resemble something that I would assign the students to use when they are on the search for fake vs credible sources. This will help them write out and think through the websites they later use for class assignments. Once they know how to use certain websites as good references for upcoming essays or ideas for their art projects, That way they can venture in their own interest yet be able to support it with helpful sites, that are for their benefit.
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/1135_hoax.pdf