We continued to work on our web site critiques. The instructor gave out a second questionnaire which asked students to determine between fact and opinion. The handout is available for those who did not get finished at the lab.
Students should finish this worksheet and be prepared to talk about their site in class.
Instructions for Judging Fact vs. Opinion:
a) download the handout and read it
b) at the bottom of the handout is a link to "think tank" sites. Go to the link and choose a site to evaluate. You may also choose one of the sites listed below (World Net Daily, etc.).
c) evaluate the site using the worksheet questions by typing in your answers under each question.
In addition to the sites at the link on the worksheet, students can choose these sites to evaluate:
World Net Daily, particularly any articles by Jerome Corsi (enter writer's name in site's search engine)
The Heritage Foundation, particularly any articles by Bill Schneider (enter writer's name in site's search engine)
CNN.com, particularly articles by Bill Schneider (enter writer's name in search engine, but be sure you search the CNN site and not the Internet as a whole)
The Hudson Institute
At our next class, we will go over some of the web sites and students will critique their credibility. Each of the evaluations is worth 3 points and the finished evaluations should be put in your student notebook.
There is also a quiz about what you recall from the Outfoxed DVD. This is not graded, however, and is intended only to summarize the points of the DVD.
In addition, the instructor checked chapters in Langan and entered credit for them in the gradebook.
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