Dear Liz,

Have a look at "Secondary ICT Web Literacy"
http://www.teachers.tv/video/5425

This programme reveals the critical importance for teachers to provide guidance to their pupils when using the internet for research.
A group of Year 9 pupils at Wortley High School in Leeds are asked to look at three websites. The subject matters are Martin Luther King, the holocaust and Victorian robots.
None of the websites are what they seem. The first two are fronts for racists and holocaust deniers. The last is a good-natured spoof. None of the pupils spot any problems with the validity, reliability or authority of the sites and many say they would cut and paste information from the sites for use in homework or other projects.


You might be interested in Phil Bradley's list of spoof sites. I've used some of these in workshops with success!
http://www.philb.com/fakesites2.htm 

Some ideas I came across recently from Lesley University Library http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/research/evaluating_web.html 

Hope these are helpful. Also if you using delicious you can get into all my bookmarks : I am godwinpeter

Best wishes

Peter

Peter Godwin
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University of Bedfordshire
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>>> Liz Mailer <[log in to unmask]> 23/09/2008 12:24 >>>
Hi - does anyone know of any UK-produced video clips on You Tube (or 
otherwise freely available) which could be incorporated into info skills teaching, 
eg evaluating web sites and other sources, searching skills, plagiarism and 
referencing? I've found lots of US clips (some good, some just too American) 
and some UK-produced clips about libraries and various other not-too-relevant 
ones, but nothing quite what I am looking for. Any leads please? 

Thanks, Liz Mailer

University of Cumbria
Lancaster campus

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