Guides to Web Searching
and Evaluating Internet Resources
Guides to Web
Searching
Beginners Central
A chapter-by-chapter
guide to using the Internet, email, ftp, etc. Includes an entertaining
section on "Internet myths."
Finding
Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
A very comprehensive guide
to the Internet and Internet searching.
Search Engine
Features, Size, Strategies
A summary, review, and comparison
of the search features and scope of different Internet search engines.
Search Tools
Chart
A table that compares the different search engines.
How Search
Engines Rank Web Pages
Search Engine Watch has a useful explanation of how search engines search--and
how web-page creators can improve their rankings.
Guides to Evaluating Internet
Resources
Kathy Schrock's Guide
for Educators
There are many hundreds of sites with resources for
teachers, but Kathy Schrock's Guide is a great place to start. It includes
website evaluation forms (with different forms for different grade levels),
as well as subject guides, slideshows on using the Internet and creating
webquests, etc.
Thinking
Critically about World Wide Web Resources
This guide, developed
by the UCLA College Library, neatly pulls together the main issues that
students need to think about. Better for teacher preparation than for
student use.
Practical
Steps in Evaluating Internet Resources
A similar guide from Johns Hopkins
University.
Web Page Evaluation
This
set of lessons developed for a journalism course is interesting because
it has the students evaluate web pages developed with different ends in
mind (advocacy, business, informational, news, personal) and includes
a evaluation form.
Information
Quality on the Internet
This page, from a larger site, gives examples of misleading web addresses
(careful--some of these sites are pornographic), web hoaxes, etc.
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