10 Minute Micro Modules
Take one of these modules to quickly develop your skills in evaluating web pages
  Ad Critic
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What Makes a Web Site Good?
A short, easy to read article about evaluating websites.
QUICK-Quality Information ChecKlist
Eight ways of checking information on websites.
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Evaluating Web Pages
Provides three levels of evaluation for primary, middle school and secondary, a virtual tour, and links to several other sites dealing with critical evaluation of web-based information
Fact, Fiction or Opinion?
An easy-to-read article from Education World about critically evaluating web pages
What's "Good" on the 'Web?
From thirteen.org, this site looks at criteria for a good site, then provides examples of sites and talks through an evaluation of them
Evaluating Internet Research Sources
Provides extensive information about tests for information quality

Checklist to Evaluating Websites
From the University of Maryland, this site has a checklist of things to evaluate.
Critical Literacy and the Internet
A really interesting article about the need to be critical about what we access on the Internet
Weaving the Web into the K-12 Curriculum
A web quest for teachers about using the Internet
All Whois
Easy to use website that lets you track who is behind a website.
Evaluating Web Resources
Jean and Charles Schulz Information Centre.Provides a range of concepts and indicators to help evaluate web resources

Evaluation Rubrics for Websites
Provides three rubrics - for Primary, Intermediate and Secondary students. Also has links to other sites. Last updated 1998
Cyber Smart
A young persons guide to using the net and chat rooms. Learn to stay safe online

Last updated 19th February 2007
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