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In this day and age, where anyone with access to the internet can create a website, it is critical that we as educators teach our students how to evaluate web content. These wonderfully funny hoax websites, test readers on their ability to evaluate websites. These hoax sites are a great way to bring humor and hands-on evaluation into your classroom, and test your students' web resource evaluation skills.

A bibliography is an alphabetical list, by author, of the sources (books, journals, websites, etc) you have used to research and write your assignment. A bibliography usually includes information such as the author, title, publisher and date. An annotation is a concise summary and/or evaluation of the value or relevance of each source. An annotated bibliography combines these two elements and provides bibliographic information plus a summary and/ or evaluation of each of the sources you have used. An annotated bibliography may be one part of a larger assessment item.

The capacity to critically evaluate information is central within the research process of locating resources for academic purposes. Apart from being able to differentiate between fact and fiction, it's important for you to be able to assess the relevance, accuracy and suitability of information to your particular purpose.

Alan November challenges the quality of inquiry design and the use of technology. Test your own level of innovation. If you answer no to all Six Questions when evaluating the design of assignments and student work, than chances are that technology is not really being applied in the most innovative ways. The questions we ask to evaluate implementation and define innovation are critical.

"it's important to have students evaluate what they're looking for in a reading experience. As school librarians, readers' advisory is a crucial part of our job. Helping readers find the perfect book is a fulfilling task. The problem is that teenagers rarely know what they love if they haven't read much or are unable to express their interests."

Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson on the importance of evaluation of school library media programs.

Teaching and measuring critical evaluations skills through developed assessments of civic online reasoning-the ability to judge the credibility of digital information about social and political issues."

"Using a six-point strategy, teachers can help students learn about responsible web research by assessing the validity of most information that they'll encounter online."

Infographic to support critical evaluation of scientific reporting

"When educators teach media literacy, they provide students with crucial skills to become knowledgeable and active participants in the media surrounding them. Additionally, when given the skills to understand the media surrounding them, students become more aware of their consumption of it and can critically evaluate content they usually only consume in passing on their phones, in print, or on television."

Including: previewing, contextualising, questioning, reflecting, outlining and summarising, evaluation and comparing and contrasting. These strategies can also be applied to critical writing.

As learning environments change, school libraries must evolve from providing information to students to preparing students as engaged critical thinkers, evaluators, ethical users and entrepreneurial creators of information and knowledge.

Information Fluency is the ability to locate digital information efficiently, evaluate it effectively and use it ethically. The The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy's site provides guidance on using this process, resources and quizzes to support students in elementary, middle and high school.

Henry Jenkins challenges teachers to actively involve students and put what they see, hear, and read to use. Transmedia environments ask readers to seek out content, explore information in different contexts, evaluate ideas across formats, and interact with other readers.

Process Activities VisLit Resources Visual Literacy scaffold PoMo Resources PoMo I.D. Scaffold Marking Guideline Conclusion Student Evaluation Teacher's Guide Teacher Resources Program Proforma THE VIEWER by Shaun Tan & Gary Crew Shaun Tan is an artist who, along with writer Gary Crew, has created a picture book that challenges our world view. The diversity of his images shows many different views of the world: historical, cultural, social and personal. The Viewer is a picture book that provides students and teachers with the opportunity to examine the ways in which meaning is constructed within a postmodern picture book.

A teaching strategy to help students make connections between the ideas in readings, their own experiences and beliefs, and events in history and the world. Facing History offers teaching strategies that nurture students growth; literacy and critical thinking skills within a respectful classroom climate. By giving a purpose to students' reading (i.e. focusing students on paying close attention to text to find connections), this strategy helps students comprehend and make meaning of the ideas in the text. This strategy can be used when reading any text - historical or literary - and it can also be used with other media as well, including films. It can be used at the beginning, middle or end of the reading process - to get students engaged with a text, to help students understand the text more deeply or to evaluate students' understanding of the text.

The International Literacy Association (ILA) is a global advocacy and membership organization of more than 300,000 literacy educators, researchers, and experts across 86 countries. With more than 60 years of experience, ILA has set the standard for how literacy is defined, taught, and evaluated. As well as subscription journals the site also provides free resources including "Children's rights to read" poster and reading lists that are updated regurarly

"Some library websites feel disconnected from the library as a whole. Rather than looking at a library's web presence as a burden or an obligation, libraries should see their website as an extension of the library itself. Like the physical library space, library collections, and library services and programs, the library's website is an iterative project that requires maintenance and care. Websites should be updated and evaluated regularly. They must strive to meet the specific needs of the community the library serves."

"Most online learning experiences are linear and contained. What if we used the vastness of the internet to enrich online learning experiences? One way to do so is to employ a constructivist approach. Constructivism is a learning theory that emphasizes student agency through self-guided exploration, reflection, and evaluation. "

"This interactive is designed to get students to establish good news-reading habits by making sure they verify news publications and author credentials, and cross-check with other sources before deciding whether something is 'real' news or not."