Internet Literacy for Teachers

Media Education has been called the perfect curriculum: it's timely, it's multidisciplinary, it's easily assimilated into the classroom, and it promotes critical thinking skills. 

Rick Shepherd, Association for Media Literacy

Tutorials and Exercises  

http://www.tulsalibrary.org/training/evaluating.htm This media literacy site has a site checklist and links to other pages  

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html Kathy Schrock's resources for critical evaluation.

http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/examples.htm Lots of examples of sites, hard to navigate. Not all links appropriate for use with students.

http://members.aol.com/okawp/ The Oklahoma Association of Wine Producers.

  Articles

http://www.ala.org/aasl/positions/PS_infolit.html Informative article.

http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html An article and resources about media literacy by Alan November.

http://www.medialit.org/ReadingRoom/keyarticles/skillsandstrat.htm Good article about media literacy.

Searching Strategies

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

Search engine watch is the place to learn more about search engines.

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/facts/index.html Resources to help you use search engines.

http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/ This is a comprehensive site to help you become a better searcher.

http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/ Searching resources.

http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/ Great searching resources.

http://www.profusion.com/ A metacrawler to check out.

http://50.lycos.com/ The top 50 search terms on Lycos each week.

http://50.lycos.com/121799.html The top search terms for 1999

http://trends.altavista.com/ An article on Alta Vista about trends in searching.

http://www.wordtracker.com/ The most searched keywords.

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/resources/tutorials.html Search engine tutorials.

http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml A search engine for articles.

http://www.cnet.com/internet/0-3817-7-1922932.html CNETS easy to understand search article.

Election Web Resources

http://www.district96.w-cook.k12.il.us/hauser/classpages/people/Mr.FitzgeraldS.S..html

Created by Todd Fitzgerald in Riverside School District #96.

Student Guides to Media Literacy

http://www.ithaca.edu/looksharp/resources/integration/middleschool.html The look sharp project.

http://www.wlma.org/literacy/infoskil.htm Resources and curriculum links.

http://www.wlma.org/literacy/eslintro.htm Student guide to information literacy.

http://www.janetsinfo.com/big6info.htm Big 6 Information and resources.

http://www.uen.org/themepark/html/communication/media.html#things Utah Education Network.