Teaching Internet Literacy

Having a discussion with our librarian, Mrs. C. today, I told her I was working to  teach students how to evaulate web sites. I have been collecting sites with my LiveBinder account, Internet Literacy  and Deb had another link to add to mine. I just loved the site that she uses to teach students about Internet Use and Explorers at the same time.   The site she has found is called. All About Explorers. This site is to teach students how to search better on the internet. It is fantastic as the information on the first pages is obviously NOT accurate, but the pages look wonderful. The students will figure out quickly that it is not a good source for information. If they dig deeper in the information, they will find links to Reliable Resources on their explorer. There are lesson plans connected to this site. It is really a fun place on the web and very appropriate for beginning researchers.

Life Magazine Photo Archives

http://www.life.com/ I read an article about this in the latest Edutopia and had to go and see it. There is a huge archive of photos from the Life magazines. There are a lot of very meaningful pictures on this site. I found the Real or Fake pages fascinating and thought there were so many possibilities for this resource. Whether you are looking for a great picture for a writing prompt, a way to start a discussion about a time in America's past this is worth looking at. There are so many photos that it is important for students using it to have good search skills.