Integrating Technology
Evaluating Websites
Sample of “Hoax Websites”
DO NOW:
In your teams check out these websites and choose the most realistic and the most ridiculous. Write an three reasons for each of your choices and share them everyone when the timer goes off. Which you not be willing to share with your students.
California's Velcro Crop
Dog Island
Driver's License Search
Save the Mountain Walrus
Dehydrated Water
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Moon Hoax
Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
Haggis Hunt
Ova Prima Foundation
Sellafield Zoo
MoonBeam Enterprise and the Lunar Travel Agency
"Facts About"
Facts about the American Civil War
Facts about Biomes of the World
Other useful sites:
How could you use these in Lessons with your students?
Discussion - Explanations - Techniques
Should we be concerned about hoax websites?
Evaluation Techniques and Resources