Other Helpful Evaluating Resources Links

Resources

• Web Site Evaluations for Children's Use
• Internet Safety for Children's Use
• Keeping Children Safe As They Surf
• Additional Web Evaluation Sites

Web Site Evaluations for Children's Use
How does one teach children to discriminate among sites and the material they offer?  The following sites offer web evaluation criteria for children to use.

Early Elementary:  http://istweb.syr.edu/AWArds/Invest.pdf
Elementary :  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalelem.html
Middle School:   http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalmidd.html
Secondary School:   http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalhigh.html
World Wide Web Evaluation Form:  http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/tutorial/WWW.eval.html

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Internet Safety for Children's Use

Using the Internet Safely:  http://www.yahooligans.com/docs/safety/index.html
Kids Privacy Law:  http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/kidz.ht

Keeping Children Safe As They Surf

 FBI site - A Parent Guide to Internet Safety : http://www.fbi.gov/library/pguide/pguide.htm
 PC Magazine's safety tips (includes detailed evaluations of popular children's search engines) http://familypc.zdnet.com/safety/index.html
 Cybersafe Kids:  http://www.ncpc.org/netsafe.htm
The Children's Partnership (includes a guide to When Is Your Child Ready? for computer and internet use)  http://www.childrenspartnership.org/pub/pbpg98/partI98.html
Whose Internet Connection Is It Anyway? http://www.redrival.com/netschoolbus/index2.html
Kids Privacy Law on the Internet: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/adults.htm

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Additional web evaluation sites:

Submit a form to Kathy Schrock's web page evaluation  (This site offers an interactive, online critical evaluation survey and database)
Submit a quality web site to the American Library Association at
http://www.ala.org/alsc/nwsccrit.html
http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/webtruth/evaluate.htm
http://www.learningspace.org/prof_growth/assessment.html
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/ho.html (world wide web evaluation form)
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval.htm
http://faculty.acu.edu/~armstrongl/geography/webeval.htm

Bibliography

http://www.ala.org
http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/webtruth/evaluate.htm
http://www.learningspace.org/prof_growth/assessment.html
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/ho.html(world wide web evaluation form)
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
http://faculty.acu.edu/~armstrongl/geography/webeval.htm
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/tutorial/WWW.eval.html

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