Library+and+Media+Center

=[|Take a look at these free software tutorials]= ==Whether you need to strengthen your computer skills for work or just want to learn how to take advantage of all your computer has to offer, you'll find the tools you need right here. Learn at your own pace with interactive tutorial courses on today's most popular software and operating systems. Each course offers detailed, easy-to-follow instructions with audio and captions for the program and skill level of your choice.==

= = = = =Here are some great links from Mrs. Bowling. These are excellent resources if you are teaching how to evaluate a website for credibility. The links are to either deliberate hoax sites or real sites that look like hoaxes. Can you tell the difference? Can your students?=

Bring Fido [] [] lots of sites on this link [] several good sites here @http://allaboutexplorers.com/home several fake biographies of explorers [] @http://www.umbachconsulting.com/miscellany/velcro.html [] [| http://www.sree.net/stories/feline.html http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/googlegulp/] [] @http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hierakonpolis/zombies.html @http://www.thedogisland.com/ []These are sites that might be suspicious. Good for teaching bias. [] Good ways to evaluate a site. http://whhhsmediacenter.wikispaces.com/Website+Evaluation More helps to evaluate sites.

Holocaust [] A long list: [] All About Explorers @http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/ Mary Ann Bell’s List [] Gallery of Hoax Websites [] Martin Luther King [] Feline Reactions to Bearded Men []

True but odd: yeti crab is a real website (but it looks fake) [] Mike the Headless Chicken[| http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/] @http://www.life.com/gallery/26932/image/50866530/mike-the-headless-chicken

Inaccurate, Accurate, Irrelevant: []

Which is the real site for Mankato, Minnesota? [] or[| http://www.ci.mankato.mn.us]

Evaluation: []

[]Links to hoaxes and biased sites.