Evaluating a Website - A handout to use for CHS Students

Evaluation Checklist - What to look for when you are at a website.

Evaluating Web Sites

The American Library Association's Web Site Evaluation Page

Beyond Algorithms: A Librarian's Guide to Finding Web Sites You Can Trust - by Karen G. Schneider, Director of Librarians' Internet Index (LII). From the Google  Librarian Center  Newsletter.  

Web Evaluation PowerPoint

Brad Templeton's guide to common copyright myths

Take a look at some of these web sites:     

• Dihydrogen Monoxide

• The Jackalope Conspiracy

• Ovaprimatological Research - Ova Prima Foundation    

• Pioneers In Human Cloning - Clonaid.com

• Male Pregnancy - Randolph Y. Teasley Hospital, Dwayne Medical Center

• HIV & AIDS - VirusMyth AIDS HomePage

• Living On Light - Jasmuheen's Cosmic Internet Academy

• CATS REACT TO BEARDS - Improbable Research Lab

• McWhortle Enterprise - Manufacturer of biological defense products

Using the web evaluation tool, evaluate one of the sites listed above. What are your conclusions?