Evaluating Internet Resources and Web-Based Lessons

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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

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Keeping Children Safe As They Surf

• 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
• 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 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

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