Evaluating Web Resources <http://www.widener.edu/libraries/wolfgram/evaluate>
This well-known site from authors Alexander and Tate provides handouts, checklists, PowerPoint presentations, and other teaching materials dealing with web evaluation.

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html>
This excellent guide from the University of California at Berkeley offers a five-step process to web evaluation. The author, Joe Barker, has spoken and written a great deal on this topic, and his knowledge comes through in this detailed guide.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly <http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html>
This guide from New Mexico State University provides excellent criteria, examples, and suggestions for dealing with web evaluation. The author focuses on the traditional evaluation criteria of Accuracy, Authority, Objectivity, Currency, and Coverage, and gives specific examples of how these criteria should be evaluated on web pages.

Teacher Helpers: Critical Evaluation Information <http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html>
This Discovery School Guide by educator Kathy Schrock offers a wealth of information on evaluating Internet resources. She provides web checklist for elementary, middle, and secondary school levels, as well as links to her own and many other articles on this important topic.

 
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