Name:_______________________
Date: _______________________
Fake or Real?
Introduction
Media Literacy has been important long before the
Internet was commonplace.
One excellent example is the 1957 BBC broadcast (2:24 minute video) of the
Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUvNnmFtgI
Why is it important to Evaluate Websites?
8 minute video to make you think about
what might happen if people lost their ability to think critically:
http://idorosen.com/mirrors/robinsloan.com/epic/
Evaluating Websites
http://gladstone.vsb.bc.ca/library/Infolit/evaluating_internet_resources.htm
Avoiding Fake Websites: Read this website first.
http://whs.d214.org/results/whslibspecial/researchhelps/fakewebsites.htm
Is this an official website?
Martin Luther King - www.martinlutherking.org Yes / No
Are these sites fake or real?
All About Explorers - http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/ Fake / Real
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie - http://zapatopi.net/afdb Fake / Real
California's Velcro Crop - http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html Fake / Real
Save the Tree Octopus http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Fake / Real
Only one of these websites is endorsed by the Whitehouse. Look at them all, then circle the one you think is the official US Whitehouse website?
www.whitehouse.org vs. www.whitehouse.gov vs. www.whitehouse.com vs. www.whitehouse.net
Mankato - Circle the real city website?
Vaughan University Web Evaluation - Take this 10 minute tutorial:
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation
Internet Detective: Wise up to the Web - Read through this tutorial: