• Advertisements on the Web ... how do you know that you are looking at an ad on the Internet?  Maintained by Yahooligans.
• Don't Buy It - Get Media Smart ... the stories behind how mass media work, maintained by PBS.
• Good, the Bad and the Ugly ... examples along with criteria for evaluating the Internet are provided by the Institute for Technology-Assisted Learning,at the New Mexico State University. 
• Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide! ... students pick sites from a list and decide if they are scholarly or not.  Critical observation is stressed on this site maintained by the UCLA College Library.

• KidsNet ... resources to help with television-based media literacy.

• Media Literacy Network for Students ... boost your "consumer smarts" through cartoons and articles.
• New Mexico Media Literacy Project ... free Adobe Acrobat resources for students including critical consumption of media, persuasion techniques and language found in today’s media, how to decode an ad, outlines for making an advertisement, and more.
• QUICK: The Quality Information Checklist ... an interactive tutorial developed by British Health Agencies.
• Who Dunnit: What Kind of Web Page Is This? ... an online activity to help identify where sites come from including domain names (edu, com, gov).  Maintained by the UCLA College Library.

Are the following Internet sites fictional or fact?

• All About Explorers

• California's Velcro Crop under Challenge 

• Dihydrogen Monoxide

• Dog Island Free Forever

• Feline Reactions to Bearded Men

• Genochoice

• Moonbeam Enterprises and Lunar Travel Agency

• Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

• Victorian Robots

• Which Came First - The Chicken or the Egg?

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