Website Evaluation

Who is the source of the information?  
 They gave a fake list of authors for the site. They gave all of them impressive resumes. You must pay attention, at the bottom of the site, it gives a link to the real authors.  They are Gerald Aungst and Lauren Zucker. Gerald is a Supervisor of Gifted Education in the Cheltenham School District in Elkins Park, PA. Lauren a Library Media Specialist in Centennial School District, and also taught middle and high school English. 



What are you getting? 
A fictional site. This is a site made by a group of teachers to teach students how to use the internet. Most of the information on the website is fictional, or made up. They made the site look legitimate, but it's fake. They did a good job, just by looking at it, I thought it was real. They got me,

When was the site created?
It doesn't say when the site was created. It does say that the site was updated on June 17th 2011. So that tells me that it is a current site.


Where? 
It is a ".com" website. This goes along with the content of the site. Anyone can make a ".com" site, which is why the teachers can make a false site. Clever. I like this site.

I love this site. This was such a great idea. This is a good way to catch the students who don't pay attention to what they are researching. I'd like to implement this in my class somehow, just to see if anyone catches on.