REFERENCE SITES

Webster's Dictionary

Roget's Thesaurus

Encyclopedia Britannica

CIA, the World Factbook

The World Wide Web Virtual Library

The Virtual Reference Desk

ON EVALUATING WEB PAGES

American Library Association's 700+ Great Sites: Selection Criteria: How to Tell if You Are Looking at a Great Web Site

Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation from Searcher, by Paul S.
Piper, Librarian at Western Washington University

Evaluating Web Resources from Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate of Wolfgram
Memorial Library, Widener University

Evaluation of Resources on the Internet by Dr. Anne Clyde

ABCs of Web Site Evaluation by Kathy Schrock

Evaluating Web Sites, What Makes a Site Good? from Multnomah County Librarian
Sara Ryan

Ten Cs for Evaluating Internet Sources from the McIntyre Library of the
University of Wisconsin.

Evaluation Rubrics for Websites by Tammy Payton

Virtual Salt: Evaluating Internet Research Sources by Robert Harris

QUICK: The Quality Information Checklist

Teaching Zack to Think (Alan November) This important article, written for High
School Principal, describes the research of a fourteen-year old boy led to
believe the Holocaust never happened.

Thinking Critically about WWW Resources by Esther Grassian of UCLA College
Library

ACTIVITIES

WebQuest on Evaluating Web Sites (Valenza)

Practice Ranking Sources: High School (Valenza)
Practice Ranking Sources: Middle School (Valenza)

Why Should I Take This Author Seriously (Valenza)

Evaluating Web Pages: Why It's Important from the UC Berkeley Teaching Library

ICYouSee: T is for Thinking by John Henderson of Ithaca College Library

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly from Susan Beck of New Mexico State University
Library

Who Dunnit: What Kind of Web Page Is This? from UCLA College Library

Kathy Schrock's Critical Evaluation Information for elementary, middle, and
secondary students