INFORMATION FLUENCY

The first step in beginning a safe surfing web search is learning the online dangers for children.

Porn-napping and CyberSquatting	WIASA.org - Children's Guardian
Surfing the Net with Kids	Net Family News

    The building blocks of research start with an information literacy curriculum and guidelines.

Mankato Schools Information Literacy Curriculum Guideline	Information Literacy
Internet Lesson Plans	Illinois School Library Media Association Professional Resources

    Resources to assist in student instruction on their web investigation while collecting information for their assignment.

Getting Started on the Internet	The Internet School Library Media Center
The Internet Schoolhouse Libraries	Online Activities Promoting Information Literacy
Gayle's Electronic Classroom	Web Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting
Virtual Internet Schoolhouse	IMSA Wizard

    When using the Internet for research, students need to learn how to explore primary sources and primary source documents.

Using Primary Sources	Using Primary Sources in the Classroom
How to Use Primary Sources	Using Primary Source Documents in the Classroom
Using Primary Sources on the Internet	Using Primary Sources on the Web

    What do you need to know about searching?

Gayle's Electronic Classroom	Using Search Engines - A Tutorial
Specialty Search Engines	Four NETS for Better Searching
Search Engine Features	Stopwords

    Why do I need to evaluate web sources?

The Quality Information Checklist	Gayle's Electronic Classroom
Welcome to Internet Detective	Evaluation Criteria

Web Site Hoaxes

Click Monkeys	Ovaprima
Clones-R-Us	California's Velcro Crop
Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division	Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
	World's First Spud Server
Funky Shoes Online Shoe Store	This Page Left Blank Project
SuperVillain Supply Store	The Whitehouse

Prophetstown High School	Copyright
Linking for Learning with Technology	Information Fluency
Digital-Age Learning	Books Online

Created by gwright/jwright
3/25/2003 Revised 9/29/04
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