Listed below are useful links for busy teachers who wish to enhance students' critical literacy skills when using the internet.
Links include: Web quests, rubrics , checklists/evaluation forms, thinking skills/questioning, lesson plans/tutorials, further readings , listservs, hotlists, and bogus web sites for teaching critical literacy skills.

Webquests
Jurassic Park is an information literacy webquest. Suitable for years 5-7.
The quest is based on the movie Jurassic Park, students develop rubrics, use them to evaluate the quality of web sites and write a memo, or could be adapted to write a web page/multimedia presentation.
http://fayette.k12.in.us/~cbeard/jp/webquest.html

What Makes a Good Website.  This webquest was developed to teach fifth and sixth grade students how to look critically at websites and evaluate them according to certain criteria using rubrics.
http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq15/webq.htm

Web-and-Flow  Tom March's  -  learning community -  fill-in-the-blanks web site that guides you through creating your own web-based activities for  learners.
http://www.web-and-flow.com/

Ozline helping educators work the web - training pages.
http://www.ozline.com/

Blue Web'n   a library of sites - an online library of 1200+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

The Webquest  page by Bernie Dodge has examples and training materials.
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive web site that guides you through picking a topic,
searching the web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning web resources into learning
activities.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
 

Rubrics
A rubric for evaluating web sites
http://fayette.k12.in.us/~cbeard/jp/rubric.html

Basic rubric for Primary Grades developed by Tammy Payton
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/edu/rubric1.htm

Basic rubric for Intermediate Grades developed by Tammy Payton
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/edu/rubric2.htm

Rubrics for Evaluating Web Sites for Secondary School Level by Tammy Payton
http://www.buddyproject.org/tool/search/pdf/assess.pdf

WWW CyberGuide Ratings for Content Evaluation
http://www.cyberbee.com/guide1.html

Checklists/Evaluation forms
Quick Quiz Fantastic site for primary students. Uses imaginary examples, quizzes and puzzles to allow young people to explore for themselves the concepts around information quality. Contains a teachers' guide, quiz and checklist summary
http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm

Kathy Schrock developed these original evaluation tools for elementary, middle, and high school students to assess the quality of web sites. Students learn to examine usability, bias, applicability, authenticity, and authorship. There's also an extensive hotlist of other web-based resources on information literacy and some great links for practicing information literacy skills, such as Doug Johnson's Mankato, Minnesota, a study of Feline Reactions to Bearded Men, and a fascinating treatment of Aluminium Foil Deflector Beanies!
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

Online evaluation form for students to complete
http://www.2learn.ca/evaluating/div2netscheck2.html

Evaluating Information found on the World Wide Web -  Provides a chart about domain extensions (.gov .edu .com) and describes the possible information one could find there, also handy tips and tricks for verifying authenticity
http://www.webliminal.com/search/search-web12.html

Critical evaluation of a web site  - junior school level by Kathy Schrock
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalelem.html

Critical evaluation of a web site  - middle school by Kathy Schrock
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalmidd.html

A page of web site evaluation tools, checklists, rubrics etc.
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/think.html#Web Site Evaluation

Web site evaluation list
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/discipline.htm

Web page evaluation worksheet
http://www.duke.edu/~de1/evaluate.html

CARS checklist
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/tbarcalow/490NET/Evaluation.htm#students

University of Southern Maine checklist
http://library.usm.maine.edu/guides/webeval.html

Evaluation criteria
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/criticalevaluation/index.cfm
 

Higher Order thinking skills/questioning
Classroom Strategies to Engender Student Questioning
http://www.fno.org/toolbox.html
 

Lesson plans/Tutorials
Critical Evaluation of a web page - Lesson Plan
http://kathyschrock.net/eval/index.htm

Digging for Gold! Students complete a tutorial on Web literacy and use what they learn to successfully find information in an online scavenger hunt Years 7 - 8
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/01-1/lp230_02.shtml

Who said that? Students complete a tutorial on web literacy and use what they learn to evaluate a web site. Years 1-5.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/01-1/lp230_01.shtml

Critical literacy on-line tutorial for students and teachers
http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/les1/index.html
 

Further reading
Developing critical literacy skills for the internet
http://www.pwc.k12.nf.ca/internetliteracy/

Web Articles on evaluation
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/find/eval.htm

Kids on the Net: Critical Thinking Skills for Web Literacy
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/kidsnet2.htm

Critical literacy web site (note this site is still under construction so keep checking)
http://www.mc.cc.md.us/departments/critlit/

A Guide to Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html

Yahooligans Teachers' guide to evaluating web sites
http://www.yahooligans.com/content/tg/evaluatingwebsites.html

Why we need to evaluate what we find on the Internet
ht tp://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/~techman/eval.html  

International Reading Association
Focus on Critical Literacy
http://www.reading.org/focus/critical_lit.html 
 

Listservs
Join a Critical Literacy listserv
http://www.reading.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=crit_literacy&A=1
 
 

Hotlists
Provides links to Evaluating Internet Information, also provides some great bogus sites to teach critical literacy on the web as well as some journal reading links.
http://www.mindspring.com/~klv/eval.html
 
 

Bogus Web Sites for Teaching Critical Thinking Skills
Volcano site written by Nigel Baker as a link to a Mount Vesuvius webquest, providing misinformation about
volcanoes around the world, including Mount Vesuvius. Very humorous.
http://www.burlheadss.qld.edu.au/home/practice/Cactus_University/volcanoes.htm

Evaluating Internet Information - Web Sites to Analyse
This site offers many links to sites to include in your lessons - scroll down to locate
http://www.mindspring.com/~klv/eval.html

Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation.   Scroll down for a list of links on  where to go for help and
sites that are dedicated to tracking Internet hoaxes.
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep00/piper.htm