Additional Resources
- Evaluating Quality
on the Net, by Hope N. Tillman, Director of Libraries, Babson College.
This page was one of the first on the Web to address these issue, but it has not been updated since 2003.
- From UC Berkeley are a couple good pages, Evaluating
Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask and a page
that tackles the broader issue of Critical
Evaluation of Resources.
- The Nizor Project includes a Fallacy
Tutorial that was created by Michael C. Labossiere. It doesn't not specifically address the Web, but is more fundamental in its approach.
- John L. Cotton and Randall J. Scalise, professors of physics at SMU
have put together The
Baloney Detection Collection, compiled from lists and ideas first
presented by Carl
Sagan, Michael Shermer, and Robert
L.Park. None are specifically related to Web evaluation, however.
- The Good, the
Bad, and the Ugly, which is subtitled, "Why It's a Good Idea to
Evaluate Web Sources," approaches the topic with examples and evaluation
activities.
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators includes a section on Critical
Evaluation Information that is aimed at K-12 teachers.
- The Virtual Chase from Genie Tyburski was designed as a guide to legal professionals, but it is useful to researchers in many fields who are using the Internet.
- There are several information literacy tutorials available online, including EMPOWER, from Wichita State University Libraries; the Internet Detective from a team from several UK universities; IRIS, from the library at Clark College in Washington State; and LILI, from South Australia.
- For a site that debunks, challenges, or addresses some hoaxes, questionable
ideas, and urban legends, I can suggest the snopes.com, although I invite you to test it yourself given the criteria you have now been introduced to.
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