From literacy to information literacy : John Royce
The examples, the links
The bibliography of the paper is posted at <http://park.robcol.k12.tr/jroyce/fromlittolitbibliog.doc>
Many of the pages cited will lead you to more examples of material which suggest the need for critical
thinking.
The links here will take you to (most of) the sites and examples used in the presentation and are listed
here more or less in the order used. As such, this list provides notes and a working bibliography;
please forgive any straying from correct APA citation.
Also included here are a few sites there wasn't time for in the presentation itself.
Yasick, Darlene (2004, May 25). Hoax sites and info literacy. Posted on LM_NET listserv.
Retrieved May 31, 2004, from http://eduref.org/lm_net/archive/LM_NET/2004/
May_2004/msg01569.html
Ed the Moose (1998, August 31). Chemical castration bill becomes law. The Underground
Online. Retrieved May 31, 2004, from
http://www.disconnect.net/underground/volume2/castration01.html
Chemist's shop caught in cash scam (2003, December 16). BBC News. Retrieved January 16,
2005, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3323639.stm
Seenan, G. (2003, December 17). Pharmacy of false fortunes: Address of shop in Thurso
given to victims of Nigerian scam. The Guardian. Retrieved January 16, 2004, from
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/spam/story/0,13427,1108530,00.html
Some sites/ pages posting versions of Dr Martin Luther King jr's "I have a dream" speech
using the words "colored American", which have authoritative looking URLs include:
seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/words/dream.html
www.colorado.edu/ling/courses/Fall2000/ 5200/i_have_a_dream.html
www.historian.org/ushist/mlking.htm
usinfo.org/Voice/IhaveaDr.html
martin-luther-king-day.123holiday.net/ i_have_a_dream.html
A Google search for ["i have a dream" "colored american"] provides more than 200 hits.
"No fact is ever lost…"
Yamamoto, Mike (2003, April 14). Legacy: A brave new World Wide Web. CNET
News.com. Retrieved April 17, 2003, from http://news.com.com/2009-1032_3-995680.html
Greer, T., Holinga, D., Kindel, C., Netznik, M., Brown, J., Hickey, K. et al. (2002). Why
evaluate web information. An Educators' Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation.
Retrieved February 2, 2004, from http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/credibility/page2.html
Evaluation criteria.
Greenwood, Aleteia (2004, February 4). Criteria for evaluating Internet resources.
University of British Columbia Library. Retrieved March 1, 2004, from
http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/evaluating/
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Greenwood, Aleteia (2003, April 2). Criteria for evaluating print resources. University of
British Columbia Library. Retrieved March 1, 2004, from
http://www.library.ubc.ca/scieng/PrintEval.html
Schrock, K. (2003, August). Kathy Schrock's Guide for educators - Critical evaluation
surveys and resources. Available from http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
Other favorites include:
Alexander, J., & Tate, M. A. (1999). Evaluating web resources. Retrieved February 3, 2004,
from http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm
Kirk, E. (2002, June 5). Evaluating Internet information. Retrieved January 1, 2004, from
http://www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate/index.html
Hoax sites include:
Burger King introduces left-handed Whopper(1998, March 31). Available from
http://www.burgerking.com/CompanyInfo/onlinepressroom/index.aspx
Cicadaville.com - Premier cicada information source (2004). Retrieved June 2, 2004, from
http://www.cicadaville.com/
Dog Island: Free forever (2003). Retrieved June 2, 2004, from
http://www.thedogisland.com/
Maloney, Catherine (2001). Feline research : Feline reactions to bearded men. Retrieved
June 1, 2004, from http://www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
Mankato Minnesota (2003, March 23). Retrieved June 1, 2004, from
http://lme.mnsu.edu/mankato/mankato.html
Taxonomy of Barney: A research study in evolution (1995). Retrieved June 1, 2004, from
http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume1/v1i1/barney.htm
Umbach, Ken (1996). California's velcro crop under challenge. Retrieved June 1, 2004, from
http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
Welcome to the White House. Retrieved April 1, 2004, from http://www.whitehouse.net/
White House. Retrieved April 1, 2004, from http://www.whitehouse.com/
Whitehouse.org. Retrieved April 1, 2004, from http://www.whitehouse.org/
(And don't forget the real (?) thing at http:// www.whitehouse.gov/)
Googlebombs.
These Google searches may no longer work; they worked at the time!
"weapons of mass destruction"
"french military victories"
"miserable failure"
"out of touch executives"
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Also, try explaining the differences in the number of hits when searching for:
[cats kittens dogs] and [cats kittens dogs dogs dogs dogs dogs dogs dogs dogs]
Quinn, Mary Ellen (2001, September 1). Reference on the web: William Shakespeare.
Booklist (98). Retrieved June 1, 2004, from
http://archive.ala.org/booklist/v98/se1/47shakespeare.html
Mabillard, Amanda (2003). Shakespeare online. Retrieved June 1, 2004, from
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/
Best, J. (2001). Damned lies and statistics: Introduction. Retrieved February 3, 2004, from
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9358/9358.intro.html
Eisiminger, Betsy (2000, Fall). An Analysis of the Effects of Violence Prevention/
Intervention Programs and Strategies in the Elementary School. Retrieved May 23, 2003
from http://portfolio.waynesburg.edu/~eis4687/education/researchpaper.htm
To follow up Eisiminger's sources through Barras and Sautter, you may need access to a periodicals database.
Starr, L. (2002, February 18). Put an End to Plagiarism in Your Classroom. Education World.
Retrieved February 3, 2004, from http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr390.shtml
Various claims worth further investigation can be found at
http://plagiarism.org/problem.html
http://www.turnitin.com/static/products_services/search_engines.html
Work-Learning Research. (n.d.) Bogus Research Uncovered. Retrieved February 3, 2004,
from http://www.work-learning.com/chigraph.htm
Link-to-Learn Technology Tutorials: Overview. Retrieved June 14, 2004, from
http://pd.l2l.org/learn.html (Kathy Schrock's site of the day, June 14, 2004)
Balu, R. (2001, March). Please don't forward this email! Retrieved February 3, 2004, from
http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2001/05/email.html
Balu, R., Engelken, C., & Grosso, J. (2001, May). Go ahead, forward this email! Retrieved
February 3, 2004, from http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2001/05/email2.html
Coconuts kill more people than sharks:
http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0523024.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,71-221807,00.html
http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/project-net/dma/pages/sharks-02.html
http://www.bookfinder.us/review4/0740738259.html
Conned by cunning fraudsters. (1996, October 9). CNN interactive. Retrieved February 3,
2004, from http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9610/09/diana.hoax/
Byrne, Paul (2004, May 1). Shame of abuse by Brit troops. Daily Mirror. Retrieved June 1,
2004, from http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/
page.cfm?objectid=14199634&method=full&siteid=50143
(This page appears to have been withdrawn from the Daily Mirror site (20 June 2004).
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Tabloid rejects army photo doubts (2004, May 3). BBC News. Retrieved June 1, 2004, from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3679177.stm
Sorry… we were hoaxed (2004, May 15). Daily Mirror. Retrieved June 1, 2004, from
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14242612&method=full&siteid=50143&
headline=sorry---we-were-hoaxed-name_page.html
Niman, M. I. (2003, December 19). E-washing history one digital archive at a time.
Retrieved January 9, 2004, from http://mediastudy.com/articles/av12-11-3.html
(Once you have verified the acuracy of the statement about the Time magazine article, practise
with some of Niman's other allegations: can you prove the accuracy of his statements? Can
you disprove them? What do we think/ do about those which are unproven/ unproveable?
You might also trace the reports of Time's responses to this story!)
Emery, D. (2003, September 2). Can coughing save your life during a heart attack? Urban
Legends and Folklore. Retrieved February 3, 2004, from
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcpr.htm
Royce, J. (2003, January 17). Is it a scam? Retrieved February 2, 2004, from
http://vm.robcol.k12.tr/~royce/scam1.html
Place, E., Hiom, D. & Peereboom, M. (1999?). Internet detective: An interactive tutorial on
evaluating the quality of Internet resources. Retrieved May 21, 2004, from
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html
Quick: the quality information checklist (2000). Retrieved May 21, 2004, from
http://www.quick.org.uk/
Henderson, J.R. (2000). ICYouSee: T is for thinking. Retrieved November 6, 2000, from
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/ICYouSee.html
Urban legends
Mikkelson, Barbara and David P (2004). Urban Legends Reference Pages. Retrieved June 1,
2004, from http://www.snopes.com/
Emery, David (2004). Retrieved 16 June, 2004, from http://urbanlegends.about.com/
April Fools
April Fool: Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time. Retrieved 16 June, 2004, from
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
April Fools on the net - an archive of net pranks, jokes, humor, tricks & foolishness (2004).
Retrieved 16 June, 2004, from http://www.2meta.com/april-fools/
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From literacy to information literacy.
John Royce : Robert College of Istanbul.