Dr. Laura Zieger

Sussex County Library Media Association

October 19, 2005

Hands-On Activities

Activity 1: Together, let’s visit the following pages. Fact or Fiction?

http://www.shardsoglass.com/shard.cfm?lp=1

http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/

http://www.thedogisland.com/

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cathotel/

http://www.geocities.com/lakemichiganwhales/

http://www.rentmyson.com/

Activity 2: Explore this WebQuest

Evaluating Web Pages: A WebQuest (Joyce Valenza)

http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/evalwebteach.html

Activity Three: Check out these resources

Those Dark Hiding Places” The Invisible Web Revealed (Robert J. Lackie-Rider University)

http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/Invisible/Inv_Web_Main.html

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources

http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html

Annals of Improbable Research

http://www.improbable.com/