Integrating Technology for Success


Evaluating Websites
Sample of “Hoax Websites”


DO NOW:

 Look at these websites and choose the most realistic and the most ridiculous. Write an three  reasons for each of your choices and share them with your Partner.

California's Velcro Crop
Dog Island
Driver's License Search
Fun Phone
First Genetics
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
Amazing Cyber Photo
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Moon Hoax
Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide

Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
Haggis Hunt
Ova Prima Foundation
McWhortle Enterprises, Inc.
Randolph Y. Teasley Hospital - Dwayne Medical Center
Sellafield Zoo

MoonBeam Enterprise and the Lunar Travel Agency

"Facts About"

Facts about Beluga Whales

Facts about the American Civil War

Facts about Biomes of the World

Facts about "Huckleberry Finn

Which is the "Real Site"

Mankato Minnesota Home Page

City of Mankato, Minnesota

Timer

How could you use these in Lessons with your students?


 

Should  we be concerned about hoax websites?

Evaluation Techniques and Resources

Intentionally Misleading Websites

Evaluating Websites Webquest
 

Team Activity
 

Resources for Both Teacher and Student

Selection Criteria
The ICYouSee Guide to Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web
Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
Evaluating Webpages - Experience Why It's Important

Evaluating Internet Research Sources
Evaluating Web Resources
Criteria for the Evaluation of Internet Information Resources
Evaluating Quality on the Net
Kathy Schrock's Critical Evaluation of a Website Rubric
Checklist for Evaluating Web Resources
Evaluating Webpages: A Webquest
An Educator’s Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation

 


Do Now
Write two or three paragraphs about and exciting, frightening, or other emotional event. Read the paragraphs to your partner and ask questions about unclear points.

Group Activity - Determine "Most Remembered Emotional Event"

 

Edsitement

Primary Sources

 

Sample Lesson - Primary Documents - evaluation

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=281

10 minutes Exploration

 


Tools for Good Thinking

Rubrics

I Keep Bookmarks


 

 

NJ - Standards

(NJCCCS) in Mathematics by NJ DOE
• Review of “New” Standards

Math Standards
http://www.ccts-ettc.org/top/academy/njstandardmath.htm


www.njpep.org/standards/revised_standards/Math_newstandards/TOC.html

All NJ Standards
http://www.ccts-ettc.org/top/academy/new_jersey_core_curriculum_conte.htm

 

  (Important Matrix)

http://education.state.nj.us/njsdb/index.php?rm=20;ci=4

www.nj.gov/njded/assessment/
www.njpep.org/classroom/classroom_resources/math_standards_resources.html 
• Align Standards to classroom lessons,

 


 

Webquests - Projected Base Collaborative Projects

I Search / Webquest Examples

 

Civil War
  http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/hcarter/webquest.htm

Land Fill
http://www.snc.edu/educ/mse/courses/summerIT/students/benesh-zoeller/

Ancient Egypt
http://www.iwebquest.com/egypt/ancientegypt.htm

Math Creative
http://studenthome.nku.edu/%7Ewebquest/gabbard/

Forest
http://www.teachtheteachers.org/projects/MBergey/index.htm

Yellowstone Wolves
http://www.powayschools.com/projects/mt&r/ConflictYellowstoneWolf.htm

Webquest Template

 

 


Useful Websites - Free easy access for student internet resources
http://www.iKeepBookmarks.com/Camden_County_Academy

http://www.mybookmarks.com  


Persuasive Writing


Rubrics - Key to Self Evaluation


Inspiration -  Graphic Organizers


Sample Foundation Based Lessons

Model Lesson #1  http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=281

Other Resources: http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/

Model Lesson #2  http://illuminations.nctm.org/java/geosolids/GeoSolids.html

http://illuminations.nctm.org/index_o.aspx?id=122


Foundation Based Resources 

National Endowment for the Humanities 
http://edsitement.neh.gov/

International Reading Association - Read*Write*Think

http://www.readwritethink.org/

Council on Economic Education Econ Ed Link

http://www.econedlink.org/

The Kennedy Center - ArtsEdge

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/

Council of Teachers of Mathematics - Illuminations

http://illuminations.nctm.org/

National Geographic Expeditions

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/


Teaching Materials

Portable content in reproducible formats:

maps, charts, tables, graphs, timelines, images, articles, archival        documents, datasets, worksheets, activities, and handouts.

Classroom Materials

Worksheet/Rubric Generators

Web Tools

Educational Games

Interactive Tools

How To Websites


Online Presentations

Information in an interactive format:

online exhibits, guided tours, documentaries, slideshows, demonstrations, videos, and multimedia.

 Interactive Expedition Field Museum

Free Videos http://www.vpw.com/educational/

Student's Classroom - Really fascinating site


Learning Activities

Content designed to promote discovery, decision making, problem solving, and critical thought:

multiple-choice games, puzzles, and quizzes, fill-in-the-blank forms and calculators, interactive exhibits, simulations, virtual realities, and scenarios that guide learners in quest of knowledge.

http://astroventure.arc.nasa.gov/

http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/Education/Websites/AstrobiologyEduc ation/classact.htm

http://www.genesismission.org/educate/scimodule/moduleover view.html

Nasa Website for Educators


Internet Excursions

Programs that link students to an ongoing event

a space mission, a political campaign, an expedition to the Arctic or the bottom of the sea —

 giving them an opportunity to share in the adventure and share ideas with the adventurers themselves.

http://www.earthwatch.org/education/ 


Internet Partnerships

Programs that link students to their peers in other schools and other countries:

cooperative research programs that gather data from science students around the world

collaborations organized by individual teachers.

Collaborative Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/collabprojs.html

Partner Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/partnerprojs.html

Real Time Data Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/realtimeproj.html

Collection Projects http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/primarysourceproj.html

 


•Curriculum Enrichment –
Adapt resources to your needs

–Infuse new content into your current lesson plans and lectures

–Add an interactive map, an animation of molecular structure, an audioclip of a historic speech

http://www.43a.de/hindenburg.htm 


•Learning Experience

–Portfolio Projects

• let students construct their own view of a subject by gathering content from selected sites.

–PowerPoint, FrontPage, Hyper Studio,

–Fact-Finding Projects

•turn students into detectives scouring selected web sites for the answers to your questions.

–Trackstar – Free Authoring Tools

http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/

http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/help/profdev/guide01.jsp

–Research Projects

• give students an in depth project.


Journal-Keeping Projects

Send students to a series of web pages with questions designed to spark reflection on what they find.


•Teaching Tool

 Use the interactive nature of the Internet to engage students in inquiry-based learning

–Challenge Activities

•Have students develop evidence at selected sites to substantiate or refute a stated position.

–Discovery Activities

•Guide students through a series of online investigations in search of answers to a mystery or puzzling question.


Teaching Tool

Decision-Making Activities

Frame a controversy and guide students to sites where they can develop a position of their own.

http://ddonline.tomsnyder.com/

Problem-Solving Activities –

Create a scenario in which students evaluate competing points of view and formulate their own solutions.


Identifying the Argument of an Essay: A Tutorial in Critical Reasoning.

Writer's Toolbox

Vocabulary Puzzles

RhymeZone: An entertaining resource for finding words that rhyme


NJ Department of Education