Would You Trust a Walrus with Your Wallet? A Guide to Judging Websites. Instructions Test Yourself How to Judge a Website Teacher’s Lounge.

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Would You Trust a Walrus with Your Wallet? A Guide to Judging Websites. Instructions Test Yourself How to Judge a Website Teacher’s Lounge

Instructions

Test Yourself Pacific Tree OctopusPets or Food The Onion Museum of Jurassic Technology

Test Yourself UncyclopediaWikipedia The PyramidsWeekly World News

The Pacific Tree Octopus Things to consider: Can you find information about the author? Does the website give sources? How often is the website updated?

Pets or Food Things to consider: Is the website objective? Does the website help your research?

The Museum of Jurassic Technology Things to consider: Does the website have additional links? Does the website have a bibliography? Can you contact the author(s)?

The Onion Things to consider: Did the website give you more or less information than you needed? Did the website give all sides of the story?

Uncyclopedia Things to consider: Did the website talk about many topics with a little bit of detail? Or did the website talk about one thing with a lot of detail?

Wikipedia Things to consider: Does the website show credentials (are the people professionals)? Are there spelling mistakes or grammar mistakes?

Weekly World News Things to consider: Can you use all of the links on the website?

The Pyramids Things to consider: Does the website talk about how it did its research? Is the website recent?

Assessment Your Score! ____________ Where you were right. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Where you were wrong. _____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________

Feedback As of right now I think this section will talk about what websites the students got wrong and use some of the guiding points to show how they could used them to determine if it was real or fake.

How to Judge a Website Credibility Relevance Currency Audience Accuracy Bias Video Screen Short Video on Each Concept Will Appear When Icon is Selected

This Web Based Learning Tool (WBLT) will give students tips on how to determine the validity of websites when doing research. The WBLT fits into the Media Literacy Component of the Ontario Curriculum, including some of the following expectations: o Making Inferences/Interpreting Messages o Responding to and Evaluating Texts: 1.3. o Conventions and Techniques: 2.2. Teacher’s Lounge

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