Oh my, I thought I knew how to evaluate a site, but I have learned some valuable lessons today. I have always understood that students needed to be taught to check out the validity of the information on a site, but I see this in an entirely different light now. This is a must have skill for our students. I think it is as important as reading, writing, and math. Our students get less and less information from books and more and more from websites. They are going to have to learn to evaluate the sites that they research. I think that we must begin to teach students information literacy skills as soon as we teach them to use the internet for research. Too many students believe everything they find on a website.
I feel certain I have been guilty of using bad sites in my research. I will start using these evaluation tools for my work in the future.
I see a benefit to social bookmarking. I felt that Delicious and Diigo were the best sites for my purposes. I think that I would like to share bookmarks with people that I know and trust or at least have something in common with. I especially like the highlighting and extra features on Diigo. There are times when I go to a bookmarked site and can't remember why I am there, or the site has changed and I can't find the information that I am looking for.
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