Evaluating
Information Found on the Internet
This website discusses criteria used by scholars to determine the value of
print materials. It suggests that the same criteria can be used for evaluating
information found on the Internet.
Kidlink's
multimedia environment KidSpace
A safe place for
Kidlink kids and teachers to learn, experiment, and
experience the real-time collaborative aspects that the Internet has to offer.
Kidlink KidSpace allows people all over the world to
communicate with one another in real-time.
BBC
Worldwide
"BBC Worldwide Monitoring's news reports draw upon radio, television and
news agency reports from over 3000 sources in over 140 countries, to provide
fast, reliable coverage of political and economic news. When each report
comes in, it is translated into English, but without editorial comment or
analysis. Includes a transcript service, and an alerting service, providing
summaries of monitored reports as stories unfold."
Information Quality
on the Internet
This site defines characteristics which determine the quality of information
on the web: objectivity, timeliness, accuracy, authenticity and verification.
News Trawler
A meta search engine with hundreds of news archives on the web in parallel.
News, magazine and journal sources are from a broad range of countries.
Time
for Kids
Time magazine for the young generation.
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