Evaluating Websites Evaluating WebsitesBasic Guidelines | Introduction to Students | Additional Resources As the Internet becomes a more important part of teaching and more accessible to students, teachers need to be more aware of the importance of teaching students to be critical of the web. Students need to realize that just as not everything seen on television or read in newspapers is true, not everything found on the Internet is true. As students are introduced to the Internet, they should be made aware of website evaluation. Use these basic evaluation guidelines (or others from the resources below) when surfing the Internet. CARS Checklist (from Evaluating Internet Research Sources by Robert Harris(CARS = Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support) * See handbook sections Resource Site Evaluation and Web Project Evaluation for examples of the CARS evaluation method. Return to Northwest SchoolTechnology HandbookTable of Contents
40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World If you’re a visual learner like myself, then you know maps, charts and infographics can really help bring data and information to life. Maps can make a point resonate with readers and this collection aims to do just that. Hopefully some of these maps will surprise you and you’ll learn something new. If you enjoy this collection of maps, the Sifter highly recommends the r/MapPorn sub reddit. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, forming about 300 million years ago. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 37. 38. 39. 40. *Bonus* World Map Tattoo with Countries Visited Coloured
Using Images as Research Prompts to Teach Google Search Strategies Over the last month I've shown the picture that you see to the left during a number of presentations and workshops. I've used the picture to model using pictures to spark students' minds at the beginning of lessons on search strategies. This is a strategy that I've developed by borrowing ideas from Daniel Russell's Search ReSearch activities and Dan Meyer's strategy of using videos and pictures to prompt students to ask math questions. When I show the picture to the left during my workshops (click it to enlarge it and feel to use it yourself) I simply ask people to share the questions that come to mind when they see it. All four of the questions above can be answered by using various search strategies and tools. Create your own image-based search lessons. For pre-made search lesson activities, take a look at the Google Search Education page.
Searching for and Citing Digital Sources for Research Paper using MLA Style Introduction: Begin by asking students what search engines they use to locate information. (Responses will probably include Google, Ask.com, and perhaps Google Scholar). Once you have received all responses tell students there are many search options available to them depending on the type of information they are looking for. Step 1: All students should be at a computer with Internet access. Once students are ready to begin research, explain to them that they must have five sources to cite, each one should come from a different search engine. Step 2: Once students have posted their web sites and evaluations, they will create a "Works Cited" page of the sources using MLA format. Step 3: Demonstrate how to use Son of Citation Machine to site a web page. Gordon, Sarah. Explain to students that their entries must be in alphabetical order and double-spaced.
worldvaluessurvey This map reflects the fact that a large number of basic values are closely correlated; they can be depicted in just two major dimensions of cross-cultural variation. ** Update ** Added supplementary data file. Each country is positioned according to its people's values and not its geographical location. To a large extent the two coincide, but the map measures cultural proximity, not geographical proximity. Thus, Australia, Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain are cultural neighbors, reflecting their relatively similar values, despite their geographical dispersion. The World Value Survey Cultural Map 2005-2008 Source: Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel, "Changing Mass Priorities: The Link Between Modernization and Democracy." The World Value Survey Cultural Map 1999-2004 Source: Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel, Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy New York: Cambridg University Press, 2005: page 63. ** Update **
10 Google Search Tips All Students Can Use I'm often asked for recommendations on how to help students use Google more effectively. This morning I sat down and thought about the recommendations that I make most frequently when I am asked. I wrote up my list and put it into PDF form for you to download and print if you like. A few things about the PDF. The list is not detailed (I wanted to keep it to one page) so you may have to show your students how to do some of the things on it. Techniques Google Search Star Welcome | Teaching Copyright Power Searching - TCEA's Get Your Google On Google search operators allow you to further customize your searches to give you only the results you want. Common file extensions are shown below, including the file types in which they are classified: Office documents cpr, cwk, cws, dcx, doc, dot, fax, fp, fp3, frm, gim, gix, gna, gnx, gra, mcw, mdb, mdn, met, mpp, obd, pdf, pps, ppt, pre, prs, rtf, shb, shw, wb1, wb2, wdb, wk1, wk3, wk4, wks, wp, wpw, wp4, wp5, wp6, wpd, wps, wpt, wq1, wq2, wri, ws1, ws2, ws3, ws4, ws5, ws6, ws7, wsd, xls, xlt, docm, docx, dotm, dotx, potm, potx, ppam, ppsm, ppsx, pptm, pptx, xlam, xlsb, xlsm, xlsx, xltm, xltx Video and multimedia avi, cfb, cmv, dir, gal, m3d, mmm, mov, mpe, mpeg, mvb, qt, qtm, xtp, xy3, xy4, xyp, xyw, mpg, wmv Music and sound aif, aiff, ams, cda, dcr, dsm, idd, it, mdl, med, mid, mp3, mtm, mod, mus, nsa, ra, ram, rm, rmi, rtm, snd, stm, svx, s3m, ult, voc, wav, wow, asf Images Executables
Teacher Resources for Learning about Copyright and Fair Use February 11, 2014 Working with digital media materials implicitly entails a tacit knowledge about the different concepts related to copyright and fair use. I have always insisted through the posts I shared in the "copyright materials for teachers " section here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning on the importance of teaching our students about how to properly credit sources and documents they grab from Internet. Of course copyright literature is huge and complicated and is hard to understand it all but having a working rudimentary knowledge of what relates to copyright issues within educational settings is not something to sweat over. In this regard, I am sharing with you this great course entitled "Copyright Crash Course" from University of Texas that outlines in a very clear and eloquent language the different things we, as teachers and students, need to know about copyright. The main points covered in this course are featured below.
Lesson Plans – Search Education – Google Picking the right search terms Beginner Pick the best words to use in academic searching, whether students are beginning with a full question or a topic of just a few words. View lesson Advanced Explore "firm" and "soft" search terms, and practice using context terms to locate subject-specific collections of information on the web. Understanding search results Learn about the different parts of the results page, and about how to evaluate individual results based on cues like web addresses and snippets. Engage additional search strategies, such as generalization and specialization. Narrowing a search to get the best results Apply filtering tools and basic "operators" to narrow search results. Compare results for basic searches with ones that use operators to discover the impact the right operator has at the right time. Searching for evidence for research tasks Evaluating credibility of sources Consider, tone, style, audience, and purpose to determine the credibility of a source. Culture Culture
Evaluating Web Sites: A Middle School Lesson Plan Subjects Educational Technology Grade 6-8 [facebookbadge] Brief Description Students learn the six criteria for evaluating Web sites and then use those criteria to locate three sites that provide good information and three that do not. Objectives Students will Understand the six criteria for evaluating Web sites Identify Web sites with accurate, relevant, and current information on a given topic Keywords Internet research, Web site evaluation, information literacy Materials Needed Computer access Access to a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word or AppleWorks, or materials students can use to write their work. Lesson Plan To prepare for this lesson, review the Education World techtorial Improving Media Literacy, which explains the six criteria for evaluating a Web site: coverage, objectivity, currency, origin, accuracy, and purpose. Begin the lesson by asking students if they think everything on the Internet is accurate. Assessment Lesson Plan Source Education World Submitted By