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Internet Sites:

• Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/libinst/evalbiblio.html

• Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses: Bibliography and Checklist
http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-49.html

• Guidelines for evaluating internet information
http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwlib/libguides/internet/eval.html

• Critical Evaluation Surveys for internet resources
A series of evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels. Also links to many other evaluation resources.
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

• Web Site Evaluation Guidelines from Ed’s Oasis
http://www.classroom.com/edsoasis/guidelines.html

• Internet Detective
An interactive tutorial which provides an introduction to the issues of information quality on the Internet and teaches the skills required to evaluate critically the quality of an Internet resource.  Free, but requires registration.
http://sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html

• ERIC Digest — Evaluating Online Educational Materials for use in Instruction (1999)
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed430564.html

• ERIC Digest — Evaluation of World Wide Web Sites: An Annotated Bibliography (1998)
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed436187.html

• ERIC Digest — Guidelines for Evaluating Web Sites (1998)
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed426440.html
 

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