Contemporary Literacy

Questions from Teacher and Student perspective:

Evaluation Tools:

Truncating the URL
Locating Domain name owner:
- http://www.easywhois.com (domain name only)
- http://www.alexa.com (entire URL)
WayBack Machine: http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html

Evaluation resources:

Harris, R. (1997, November). Evaluating Internet Research Sources. Virtual Salt.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
McKenzie, J. (1997, June). Comparing & Evaluating Web Information Sources. From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal, 6(9). http://www.fno.org/jun97/eval.html
Meyer, E. B. (2001). Evaluating Web Sites. EdTech Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. http://www.life.uiuc.edu/edtech/evaluate.html
O'Neill, A. B. Trash or Treasure? How to Evaluate Internet Resources.
http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules/tips/eval.html
Schrock, K. (2002). The ABCs of Website Evaluation. Kathy Schrock’s Guide for
Educators. Discovery Education. http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/pdf/weval_02.pdf
University of Maryland. Evaluating Websites. University Libraries, College Park, MD. Last updated August 8, 2006. http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/evaluate.html
Warlick, D. (1998). Evaluating Internet-based Information: A Goals-based Approach. Meridian, 1(2).
http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/jun98/feat2-6/feat2-6.html

University of Maryland. Checklist to Evaluating Websites. University Libraries, College Park, MD. Last updated August 8, 2006.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/webcheck.html
Cox, C. (1999). Evaluating Web Resources Checklist. University of Alberta Libraries. Last updated March, 2000.
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/instruction/science/evalweb.pdf
Valenza, E. (1999). Evaluating Web Sites Chart. Springfield Township High school Virtual Library.
http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/evalchart.html
Spitz, B. (2001). Web Site Evaluation Form. Madison Metropolitan School District. Last updated May 12, 2003.
http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/detectives/eval_form.htm

Is it legal for students to copy images, text, sound or other media from the Internet and place it in a multimedia product?

Copyright Clearance Center http://www.copyright.com
Motion Picture Licensing Corporation. About US Copyright Law.
http://www.mplc.com/aboutLaw.php
Association for Information Media and Equipment (A.I.M.E.)
http://www.aime.org/links.php
McCullen, C. and Musacchia, M. (1999, October). Copyright in a Digital World. Middle Ground.
http://www.sasinschool.com/results/articles/pages/ethread_copyright.shtml
McCullen, C. Permission to Use Graphics or Create Links. MidLink Magazine.
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/permission.html
Templeton, B. (1994). 10 Copyright Myths Explained.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/temple.htm
Davidson, H. (2002). The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use. Technology and Learning, 23(3).
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright.html
Davidson, H. (2002). Copyright Chart. Technology and Learning, 23(3).
http://i.cmpnet.com/techlearning/pdf/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/ copyright_chart.pdf
Starr, L. (2004). Applying Fair Use to New Technologies: Part 4 of an Education World Series on Copyright and Fair Use. Education World: The Educator's Best Friend. Last updated September 28, 2005..
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr280d.shtml

Contemporary Literacy: Evaluating and Using Internet Resources