FAKE WEB SITES
Have fun!
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Buy Dehydrated Water
http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/faq.htm
Tree Octopus
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Velcro Crop
http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
Save The Rennets
http://www.savetherennets.com/
Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division
http://www.dhmo.org/
Dangers of Bread
http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/bread.html
Dog Island
http://www.thedogisland.com/index.html
Giant Palouse Worm
http://www.palouseprairie.org/invertebrates/palouseworm.html
http://www.norid.no/domenenavnbaser/domreg.html?sort=name
domain name registries across the world
http://www3.widener.edu/Academics/Libraries/Wolfgram_Memorial_Library/Evalua
te_Web_Pages/Actual_Web_Pages_as_Examples/5722/
Evaluation pages
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Here are two websites that I was given that are not real:
http://zapatopi.net <http://zapatopi.net/> - for the tree octopus
www.dhmo.org - for a substance known as dihydrogen monoxide
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Here is a link to several of the fake web pages--you will have to scroll
down a little to get to them. I used these with my students too.
http://www.dillon2.k12.sc.us/teachers/searchtools.asp#Fake_Websites_to_Use
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I love the Mankato, MN bogus site, probably because I went to school there
and lived close by; the Velcro crop is another. I also like the Pacific
Northwest Tree frog site. ALl three work well with 6th grade. At first
they are very laid back and savy, and then there is an "AH" moment and
giggles.
http://www.mckenziehighschool.org/mhs/bogus.htm
---------------------- WEBSITES
Websites can be tricky to decipher. You want to make sure that it presents
you with accurate information. We will evaluate the following websites to
determine their validity.
1. http://city-mankato.us/
Where is Mankato?
What is the current temperature?
What tourist activities are available?
Is the map correct?
2. http://www.fvza.org/
When did this agency start?
Can you find any reference to it on any government website?
3. http://www.umbachconsulting.com/miscellany/velcro.html
How is Velcro made?
Is it possible that weather could effect its production
4. http://www.dhmo.org/
What is dihydrogen monoxide?
Should it be banned?
5. http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Can aluminum foil protect your brain from electromagnetic psychotronic mind
control?
6. http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm
7. http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Can a tree octopus survive?
Are the pictures legitimate?
I hope you can open the attached file. I developed the Webquest for a course
I took. There is a list of fake websites. My favorite is the Federal Vampire
and Zombie Agency www.fvza.org. Gotta trust our government to keep us safe
from all the vampires and zombies running around. Also students get a kick
out of the Dyhydrogen monoxide website.
Good Luck!
Introduction
You will be writing a research paper sometime this year. Not all information
sources are going to be valid. You can't rely on Google, Dogpile, AltaVista,
etc. for all your information needs. Even Wikipedia isn't always a reliable
resource. To find the "good" information that you need for your papers you
need to develop a set of criteria to judge the websites that you find. This
WebQuest is designed to help you do that.
WebQuest Task
Your task is to develop a resource(handout, index card, poster, etc.) that
your classmates can use in the media center or at home to help them evaluate
Internet resources on their own.
WebQuest Process
1. The first step is to get organized into groups of three. You will be
working with the students on either side of you.
2. Then your groups will examine web sites that explain what to look
for in quality web sites. Is it a good web site to use or has someone put it
up as a hoax? Look at three or four of the following sites.
Criteria for Web Site Evaluation:
http://www.lib.unich.edu/ugl/guides/evaluate
Evaluation Wizard: http://wizard.imsa.edu/evaluate
Quality Information ChecKlist: http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm
Kathy Schrock's Guide:
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalmidd.html
Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools:
http://www.library.conrell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/webeval.html
How to Evaluate a Web Page:
http://manta.library.colostate.edu/howto/evalweb.html
3. Take notes as you read through the web site. Make a list of the
criteria that you find. What things are listed as important? What questions
should you be able to answer about quality information sites? Is there a
checklist or chart provided?
4. In your groups compare the notes you have taken. Develop a list of
at least 5 questions you need to answer to evaluate a web site. (Your list
can have more than 5 questions to answer.)
5. Now take your group's master list and use it to evaluate a web site.
Select a web site from the list below.
Federal Vampire & Zombie Agency: http://www.fvza.org <http://www.fvza.org/>
Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division: http://www.dhmo.org
<http://www.dhmo.org/>
The Twinkies Project: http://www.twinkiesproject.com
<http://www.twinkiesproject.com/>
The Jackalope Conspiracy: http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm
California's Velcro Crop: http://home.inreach.com/Kumbach/velcro.html
Buy an Ancestor Online: http://www.fulkerson.org/ancestors/buyfix.html
Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches: http://www.pmichaud.com/toast
6. Evaluate your list. Did it help you? Do you need to change it by
adding or removing anything? Work on making any necessary changes in your
group.
7. Now select a site from the list below. In your groups use your
revised master list to evaluate the web site. Discuss whether you would use
the site for a research paper or project.
Facts about the Civil War
http://www.idiotica.rom/cranium/encyclopedia/content/civilwar.htm
American Civil War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_war
Civil War, American http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar117060
<http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar117060&st=amerrican+civil+wa
r> &st=amerrican+civil+war
Civil War, U. S. http://gme.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0064040-0
8. Re-evaluate your list. Make any final revisions.
9. Now your group can create your resource for the media center. It can
be a handout, an index card, a checklist, etc. Be creative. What would be
most helpful for you and your friends? Be sure to include all of the
following in your resource:
Who made it- Take credit for your hard work and include the names of
everyone in your group!
A Title - Make it something to remember
At least five questions/criteria to ask when evaluating a web site.
Evaluation Rubric
Students will be able to write a list of criteria for web site evaluation.
Students create a list of 4 criteria. Criteria are uneven in focus or
contain mistakes.
Students create a list of 5 criteria. Criteria are uneven in focus or
contain mistakes.
Students create a list of 5 or more criteria. List is comprehensive and
accurate.
Students will be able to use their lists to effectively evaluate web
resources.
Students feel that their list is less than effective to evaluate web sites.
Students feel uncertain about the effectiveness of their list to evaluate
web sites.
Students demonstrate that their list is effective when evaluating web sites
Students will identify valid and reliable web resources.
Students are able to identify reliable web resources.
Students identify one or two reliable web resources.
Students identify three reliable web resources.
Students will be able to create a resource to help their classmates evaluate
web resources.
Students create a resource that contains errors.
Students create a resource that is accurate but not visually interesting.
Students create a resource that is accurate and visually interesting.
Conclusion
Congratulations! And Thank You!! By completing this Webquest, you and your
classmates are closer to being good information consumers and expert web
site evaluators. You have learned valuable things about the authority,
accuracy and currency of information you find on the Internet. The criteria
you developed can be applied to free web sites as well as to the online
services the media center has. You also made a real tool that others can
use.
Do you know the Onion? A satirical weekly probably more suited to high
school age.
Here's the link:
http://www.theonion.com/content/index
just search fake, hoax, bogus websites, web evaluation examples, etc.
here is one page - the dihydrogen monoxide is great and mankato, MN - who
would spend time doing this?!?!
http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html
This is one of my favorite. But search the archives for bogus or hoax
websites and you will likely find a ht.
http://www.idiotica.com/cranium/encyclopedia/content/civilwar.htm
http://www.oskaloosa.k12.ia.us/staff/johnsonj/Site/Bogus_Webistes.html
Here's a bunch I made for info lit lessons:
http://www.idiotica.com/cranium/encyclopedia/
http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/
This is a terrific one we plan to use next year. Also, idiotica.com has
some pretty funny ones.
I've got a bunch of them linked to my website. Check out the bottom 10
links on the "Critical Evaluation of Website Resources" page for some really
good ones. I just used Kathy Schrock's web evaluation lesson with my highly
capable 4th & 5th graders, and even though it was a middle school lesson, it
turned out well.
http://teacherweb.com/WA/HIllsideElementary/Library/links6.stm
! I have a few on this page that I used when I taught a media literacy
class. I haven't checked the pages in a few months, so I apologize if there
are any broken links.
www.quia.com/pages/websiteeval.html
If you go to www.protopage,com/chslinks you will find a whole widget of
them. I use them at the high school level to teach website evaluation. Hope
this helps.
I usually use http://www.michelangelo.com/buonarroti.html which gives good
information, but when you delve deep find out the website belongs to a
website design company and I show the kids how you have to be careful where
the information comes from, they are just trying to sell their services, and
are not experts on Michelangelo.
You may have already gotten links to these but here are some of my
favorites:
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/webeval/eval12.h
tm
(especially dyhydrogen oxide--water--ha!)
http://www.mckenziehighschool.org/mhs/bogus.htm
(especially tree octopus and velcro)
The fake site I use is: zapatopi.net/treeoctopus
. I put together a small list of links to sites I've used with my students
on my school library web page (sites that I found via the great folk here
at LM_Net:
http://hardinvalleyes.knoxschools.org
then click on Library Media Center, under "Information", select "Website
Evaluation"
I wish our district's website program gave us manageable URLs to send people
to specific sections--I've cut and pasted the direct link below:
http://mediacenter.hardinvalleyes.knoxschools.org/modules/groups/group_pages
.phtml?gid=508157
<http://mediacenter.hardinvalleyes.knoxschools.org/modules/groups/group_page
s.phtml?gid=508157&nid=64666&sessionid=a86ac6b6d74eab770383b9dc9589ba07&ses
s
ionid=a86ac6b6d74eab770383b9dc9589ba07>
&nid=64666&sessionid=a86ac6b6d74eab770383b9dc9589ba07&sessionid=a86ac6b6d7
4e
ab770383b9dc9589ba07
I have a couple of pages that might help. The first 2 are lessons.
This is a lesson I have been working on - but have not presented yet. I
hope to next year.
Is it real?
http://www.gananda.org/webpages/hslibrary/index.cfm?subpage=311003
This is a lesson that I do with the 12th grade. I think some of the links
might be broken now. I will probably look for replacements in the fall.
12th Grade Research Web Evaluation Project
http://www.gananda.org/webpages/hslibrary/resources.cfm?subpage=441962
Another page:
Critical Evaluation Techniques
http://www.gananda.org/webpages/hslibrary/index.cfm?subpage=344288
Another page:
Hoax Sites
http://www.gananda.org/webpages/hslibrary/resources.cfm?subpage=373543
Web Evaluation Workshop for Teachers
http://www.gananda.org/webpages/hslibrary/workshops.cfm?subpage=623219
More Hoax Sites
http://www.gananda.org/webpages/hslibrary/resources.cfm?subpage=527538
The best lesson I did all year, I used 2 sites--just google "Tree Octopus"
and you should get the Zapatopi.com site. You can get the official tshirt,
pin, bumper stickers, etc. I even got a stuffed octopus and a "Save the
Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus" display (I put books about UFO's,
Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, etc., in the display, and the kids STILL didn't
make the connection). I even had my teachers believing tree octopi were
real! The other is the Federal Zombie and Vampire Registration Site--it has
to be real, because they use an official government seal on the home page,
right?
I've collected some
http://delicious.com/nmtc_Librarian/IsThisReal
www.thedogisland.com
It's an absolutely hilarious website about an island where you can send your
dogs to live. I had my 5th graders fill out a shot questionaire about it
where I had them navigating the website. I made them tell me the copyright
date, go to FAQs, and tell me the facilities. Then I had them read the
disclaimer, which clearly states that the website is fake. It's a really
funny website, though, and my 5th graders loved it.
You might look at uncyclopedia at
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Here is a page I put together for my 5th graders -
http://www.wcboe.k12.md.us/custom_pages/005/Main/hoaxsites.htm
Try these (one is real though).
http://www.lesd.k12.az.us/webpages/kwestrick/index.cfm?subpage=561121
Northwest Pacific Tree Octopus
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Dihydrogen Monoxide
<http://www.dhmo.org/> http://www.dhmo.org/
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
It shows up on the first page of results for a Google search for "octopus."
It's pretty hilarious!
* http://www.thedogisland.com/index.html
Does Your Dog Need a Vacation?
* http://www.dhmo.org/
Check out the dangers lurking in water bottles... dihydrogen monoxide.
* http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
CA Velcro farmers suffering crop issues this year
* http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Are people trying to control your thoughts? Try the aluminum foil deflector
beanie
* http://www.rythospital.com/about/
RYT Hospital-- specializing in the latest nanosurgical technologies, brain
transplants, and male pregnancy
* http://www.fvza.org/index.html
What federal agency is protecting us from vampires and zombies? Why the
Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency, of course....
If you come to my web page (www.mckayhs.org), click on library and go to
"Evaluations," you will find a list of 20 or so. The Civil War, and Mars
are two of the best.
http://www.dillon2.k12.sc.us/teachers/searchtools.asp#Fake_Websites_to_Use_F
or_Student_Instruction_on_Using_the_Internet
Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
http://www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
The White House http://www.whitehouse.net <http://www.whitehouse.net/>
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html
Dihydrogen Monoxide Research http://www.dhmo.org <http://www.dhmo.org/>
Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow Torches http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~pmichaud/toast/
MoonBeam Enterprises and Lunar Travel Agency
http://www.dreamweaverstudios.com/moonbeam/moon.htm
Tree Octopus http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html
British Stick Insects http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Stick_Insects
Bio defense detector-McWhortle http://www.mcwhortle.com/index.htm
Monitor camera...takes your picture
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3072/camera1.html
Left-handed Whopper release from Burger King
http://www.zbach.com/page%2025/whopper.htm
First Human Male Pregnancy http://www.malepregnancy.com
<http://www.malepregnancy.com/>
Jackolope conspiracy http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm Dog Island
http://www.thedogisland.com <http://www.thedogisland.com/>
http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
http://descy.50megs.com/akcj3/bmd.html
http://www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
http://www.d-b.net/dti/
http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/
http://www.pmsd.k12.pa.us/schools/hs/library/Bogus.htm
http://andoverhs.anoka.k12.mn.us/imc/bogus.html
http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/browse.asp?folder=83136
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites2.html
http://www.umich.edu/~engtt516/lifetimes.html
http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/Conference_papers/SELS96/WoO.html
http://www.genochoice.com/
http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
http://www.dhmo.org/
http://www.mcwhortle.com/
http://www.malepregnancy.com/
http://www.sandman.com/telco.html
http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i1/barney.
This website has both real and hoax sites ready for comparison: :
http://www.library.ucla.edu/college/help/hoax/evlinfo1.htm
I do a presentation to our 7th graders about website selection and
evaluation. After I talk about the various aspects of website evaluation I
pretend we are doing a research project on Mars and we evaluate three sites
as a group. We look at one that is inaccurate, one accurate, one irrelevant
(I talk about how easily one gets distracted while doing homework!):
http://www.idiotica.com/cranium/encyclopedia/content/mars.htm
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mars
http://www.mars.com/global/Global+Brands/Snackfood/Mars.htm
Which is the real site for Mankato, Minnesota?
http://city-mankato.us <http://city-mankato.us/> or
http://www.ci.mankato.mn.us <http://www.ci.mankato.mn.us/>
These two sites will give you much to discuss.
Check Joyce Valenza's Evaluating Web Pages at
http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/evaluating.html
Some of these may not be active. Some of them may be blocked at your school.
My bogus website page is located at
http://www.mckenziehighschool.org/mhs/bogus.htm
The mother lode is if you can read about Authur Butz at
http://www.ibiblio.org/team/history/controversy/abutz/intro.html He really
writes that the Holocaust didn't happen.
Take a look at http://muse.widener.edu/%7Etltr/How_to_Evaluate_9.htm
Have your students evaluate two of the sites ( Maybe the MLK sites would
work.) in the presentation and then show them the presentation.
Just an idea that might work for you.
I put several hoax sites on this page
www.quia.com/pages/websiteeval.html
Here's my (somewhat silly) list. There are some funny sites here. The tree
octopus is a perennial favorite with my students, and believe it or not,
they fall for it.
http://del.icio.us/PamatMES/site-evaluation
The ones also tagged "bogus" are the fakes.
This website fooled even teachers until we took a closer look. Be
sure to read the 'For Teachers' link. http://
www.allaboutexplorers.com/index.html
There is a list I compiled here, and I think it is pretty current...
http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/webeval/
eval12.htm
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html
shambles has a lot of sites listed - also some games, and a variety of
levels depending on the age group you are targeting.
I like the one about egg-shaped golf balls and dog island. Some of our
students had a tough time with the golf balls.
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
http://www.idiotica.com/cranium/encyclopedia/content/mars.htm
http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie http://www.zapatopi.net/afdb.html
Americans for cloning Elvis http://ww.geocities.com/
americansforcloningelvis Feline reactions to bearded men
http://www.sree.net/stories/feline.html
This website has both real and hoax sites ready for comparison: :
http://www.library.ucla.edu/college/help/hoax/evlinfo1.htm
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.library.ucla.edu/col
lege/help/hoax/evlinfo1.htm>
Tree Octopus http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus
.html>
The History of the Fisher Price airplane:
http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/fisher/
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.weathergraphics.com/
tim/fisher/>
http://whs.d214.org/results/whslibspecial/researchhelps/fakesites.htm
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://whs.d214.org/results/whs
libspecial/researchhelps/fakesites.htm>
http://www.thedogisland.com/
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.thedogisland.com/>
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus
/>
1. Tree Octopus
2. Texas Jackalope
3. Burmese mountain dog
4. Some of your real whiz kids might like Stick Insects.
5. Ditto Foil Reflector Beanie
Here is the link to my whole list. You might think some others OK but I used
these successfully in the past.
http://www.shsu.edu/%7Elis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html
I have some websites on my Library Skills Blog that I use for grades 4-6 and
there might be a couple you could use. You can find it at:
http://csslibraryskills.blogspot.com <http://csslibraryskills.blogspot.com/>
<http://hewitt76ex/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://csslibraryskills.blogspo
t.com> Scroll down to the post that has the question marks and is titled
"When in Doubt, Doubt.
http://babybushtoys.com/products.html
http://www.nathanielgorham.com/ (Nathaniel Gorham as 8th president of the
United States.)
http://courses.science.fau.edu/chm2020/news/000058.html (Pros and Cons of
plastics but it's a blog)
http://www.crystalinks.com/newton.html Information on Isaac Newton but the
home page is the page of a psychic.
would be interested in a HIT on this. I don't have any websites, but I do
have a program that talks about evaluating websites. It looks like you are
in a middle school so it may be to elementary. It also deals with online
chatting. As I was working on a link for you, I noticed they've moved these
programs to a web based format, yeah! There are two adventures: Privacy
Playground (1st Adventure) and Cybersense and Nonsense (2nd Adventure).
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/privacy_playground/index.cfm
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/cybersense_nonsense/
You might look at uncyclopedia at
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
www.dhmo.org
http://www.thedogisland.com/
or,
just go to http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html !!
I do a lesson on website evaluation and it's posted on one of my blogs. If
you go to
http://csslibraryskills.blogspot.com/
The scroll down to the post entitled "When in Doubt, Doubt" you'll see links
to websites. Some are good, some are false.
I often use this site when presenting to teachers or older students
(sometimes as low as 5th grade). http://www.sree.net/stories/feline.html
This is one of my favorites.
http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/
Go to this website It is a great list
http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html
false web sites
> I'm sorry this has taken so long. I received many many responses to email
> inquiring about false web sites. This is my compilation. Please excuse any
> duplicates in the list. Thanks to everyone that sent in your lists.
> Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
> http://www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
> The White House http://www.whitehouse.net
> Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html
> Dihydrogen Monoxide Research http://www.dhmo.org
> Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow Torches
> http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~pmichaud/toast/
> MoonBeam Enterprises and Lunar Travel Agency
> http://www.dreamweaverstudios.com/moonbeam/moon.htm
> Tree Octopus http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html
> British Stick Insects http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Stick_Insects
> Bio defense detector-McWhortle http://www.mcwhortle.com/index.htm
> Monitor camera...takes your picture
> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3072/camera1.html
> Left-handed Whopper release from Burger King
> http://www.zbach.com/page%2025/whopper.htm
> First Human Male Pregnancy http://www.malepregnancy.com
> Jackolope conspiracy http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm
> Dog Island http://www.thedogisland.com
> http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
> http://descy.50megs.com/akcj3/bmd.html
> http://www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
> http://www.d-b.net/dti/
> http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/
> http://www.pmsd.k12.pa.us/schools/hs/library/Bogus.htm
> http://andoverhs.anoka.k12.mn.us/imc/bogus.html
> http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/browse.asp?folder=83136
> http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html
> http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites2.html
> http://www.umich.edu/~engtt516/lifetimes.html
> http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~doswell/Conference_papers/SELS96/WoO.html
> http://www.genochoice.com/
> http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
> http://www.dhmo.org/
> http://www.mcwhortle.com/
> http://www.malepregnancy.com/
> http://www.sandman.com/telco.html
> http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i1/barney.
[ http://www.dhmo.org/ ]http://www.dhmo.org/ --- Dihydrogen Monoxide
Research Division -- make sure to go into the Press Pass Page [
http://www.d-b.net/dti/ ]http://www.d-b.net/dti/ --- Dream Tech Clones R Us
I use these in a web eval lesson. I would love to see more. Please post a
hit
Here's a bunch. I haven't checked the links lately (some are not reliable),
but I think you'll find some you can use.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxsites.html
Here are some that I got from listserv responses this year.
http://www.umbachconsulting.com/miscellany/velcro.html
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
http://www.thedogisland.com/index.html
http://bigredhair.com/boilerplate/
http://www.sree.net/stories/feline.html
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/research/AIDSFACTS.htm
http://www.google.com/googlegulp/
http://www.kidsnetsoft.com/html/bogus.html
http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/fisher/
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hierakonpolis/zombies.html
http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/TCEA/hoaxtable.html
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/webeval/eval12.h
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