As a parallel/alternative to Phil Bradley's fake/spoof sites, I've
just used in a training session three of my favourite examples of
sites which are not fake, in that (I think!) they mean what they say,
but demonstrate that you can find a Web site to back up just about any
ludicrous assertion:
- the world is flat (http://theflatearthsociety.org)
- bananas give you cancer
(http://theinnozablog.blogspot.com/2010/12/carbine-rippen-bananas-cause-cancer.html)
- the Apollo moon landings were faked
http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicapollo.html
You could, of course, argue that those sites are fairly obviously not
authoritative; but I use them to make the point that sites like that
are just as likely to show up in Google search results as
authoritative sites, so that starting from Google rather than the
Library's RDS or databases just creates more filtering work for the
student who has to eliminate them...
Hazel
On 2 October 2014 11:08, Samantha Aston <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Alan
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> At Manchester we have created a few different ways of introducing web
> analysis as part of My Learning Essentials.
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> So we have our online subject guide that offers advice on searching the web.
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> We also have some online tutorials that cover evaluation.
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> I would also recommend the Howard Rheingold book NetSmart. He talks about
> Crap Detection in terms of evaluating information resources.
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> An activity that I have carried out with students that was demonstrated in a
> workshop at the LILAC conference was where you take an object into the
> classroom with you and ask the students to pass the item around asking
> questions about it…..what is it, where was it made, what does it do, who
> made it……..? Just to get them thinking about the questions that they should
> be asking of everything that they are looking at. You could do this in small
> groups too.
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> Also helpful is Phil Bradley’s fake web sites.
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> Best wishes
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> From: Information literacy and information skills teaching discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alan Pitman
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> Subject: Re: Web evaluation skills
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> Hi all,
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> We are revisiting the way we deliver information skills and were looking at
> good practice. If you have delivered sessions covering web evaluation
> skills we would be interested if you have used group based approaches, such
> as students working together on a task or an activity that gets them
> thinking more critically about information they find on the web and
> hopefully generates discussion. If you have any templates you can share
> that would be great.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Alan Pitman
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