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R-Cuties-My Page Evaluation & Example

Peetz Cuties
Carol [|www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=39523]
 * 1) Web url site

B. Title of the web site

Burger King introduces left-handed Whopper

C. Is the site true or trash? This was just an article released through PR newswire – based on that – trash

D. Describe criteria you applied to determine if it was truth or trash. The site was just a news release so it wasn’t appealing to the eye at all. The closest thing to an author was PR news release. There was no way of sending a message to anyone but a friend to forward the news release. The only new thing I learned was that it was a good site to go to to show my students that you can’t believe everything you read on the web. There was no way of going to any other sites except for Technorati and Google Blog Search which were both blogs with comments about the news release. No, I would not visit this site again. You could contact PR newswire through the following address : info@prnewswire.co.uk, but not Burger King. The only date that was found was in the article itself – April, but no year. This is a good site to take 2nd grade students to because they are all familiar with Burger King. At first this may look legitimate to them because it sounds very convincing that they would come up with such a thing. But as we go through the rubric and find that there isn’t information we need to prove that it is legitimate, we would also need to talk about the information in the article. For example "the sandwich has been re-designed to fit more comfortably in the left hand. This will result in fewer condiment 'spills' for left-handed hamburger lovers. The new Left-Handed Whopper will have all the condiments rotated 180 degrees, thereby redistributing the weight of the sandwich so that the bulk of them skew to the left." Not only will we discuss new vocabulary – condiments and skew – we will have to talk some common sense. Holding a burger in your left hand isn’t any harder than your right, especially if you are left-handed. It doesn’t matter where the condiments are they are still going to spill out regardless of how they are "redistributed." I would rate this web site as a - no.

DeAnn [] Is this site trash or truth? Truth Criteria used: Looked for the author and date. Author is the White House. There are current dates of events happening in our governmen t. Looked at the domain. The domain is .gov. .gov I know is a government authorized site. Checked other links in the site. They took me to actual sites, such as legislative bills and the economic agenda. Located the contact us area. It would send an email off to the White House.

I teach 4th grade here at Peetz. I have currently had my students doing several searchs for different reports and projects. I think it will be good to give them a criteria and have them go in and evaluate the site for them selves. I would first give them a true site that we could walk throught the criteria together, so that they can see what a true site should look like. I would then have them evalute a true site and a bogus site to see if they could see the difference. I will probably have my kids look at the White House site during our history time. It is a good site and has lots of information on it.

Kathy

A. Web url address: http://www.brookview.karoo.net/BFA/ B. Title of Web Site: Britain for Americans C. Is the site TRUTH ot TRASH: Trash D. Criteria: 1) Ask questions about author or site: There was no author or date listed on site 2) Look at links coming in / going out: There were none 3) Mail to link for questions, comments: Link for this purpose said, "Sorry" unavailable 4) Examine content: This Web Site was obviously filled with crazy information that was bogus: The size of Britain is 8.5 square miles. The English language came from America and then made it's way to Britain. When ordering a steak, do not accept one less than 10 pounds in weight. (This was just to name a few.) E. Since I teach 1st Grade, I will probably never have children look up web sites on their own. However, we do look up various topics together, and I do think it's important that even young children understand that you can't trust everything you read on the web. Because of this, I would use this clearly bogus site, to stress the point.
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Laura A. [] B. Save the Rennets C. Is the site Truth or Trash? Trash D. Criteria Used Looked for the author and date Looked to see if this site is reputable organization Does any of the information appear to be wrong or bias? Can you get to different parts of this site? This site appears with information about cheese, about rennets, farm locators and even how to buy one. But the whole thing is that these rennets or so called hamsters are ground up and put into cheese. They even give you a map of uk where they are raised. When you buy one they tell you to keep it in a box. A hamster in a box really they are a rodent they love to CHEW! Finally at the bottom of the page is a link about us, they finally come clean. Rennet is used in cheese but not hamsters. E. I teach 3rd grade, this might be a site I would show the class that not everything they see is true. I would enjoy the expression on their face at first. Then explore all the places on this site.

Katie

A) www.thedogisland.com/index.html B) Dog Island C.) Trash D) Criteria Used: I looked for the author and date. The copyright was 2003 (old) The site was powered by Dog Radio, how cute, huh? It even had creative songs that all related to dogs. I looked for any information that was reputable it was all creative dog related information. The information contained within the site was very interesting, descriptive and creative. The site was funded by rich people with big hearts and money for vacation island and it stated an apology to poor people for not offering it to them, but it takes a lot of money to afford this beauty for the dogs (bias). Some of the trash information was that legislation in some towns has taken dogs costs out of tax money. Thousands of dogs may stay for a month at a time on three different islands. They state how relaxing this is for them, but in reality it would be mass chaos. More trash is the threats made by anti-freedom activists which is the reason why directions to the island and land office is a maze. Some of the creative jobs you can apply for are a Dogologist and a Vegetarian Restoration Engineer. I teach kindergarten and this is a very creative site that takes an animal and developes information on a fantasy island for the specific animal. I like the creativity. What a fun project to create a fantasy island for a child's favorite animal or toy.