FW: [ha-Safran]: Bogus websites-summary of responses received

2006-03-01 Thread Yeshivah Secondary Library
Hi Marion I used those sites in a lesson teaching boys about evaluating websites and information they see on the web. We talked about topics such as bias, relevance, how to verify information you find on the web etc. The boys responded very well when I showed them some of those sites and asked

RE: [ha-Safran]: Bogus websites-summary of responses received

2006-03-01 Thread Yeshivah Secondary Library
HI Jacob Thanks for that! Not sure how I had the wrong spelling there. It just further illustrates how careful we need to be when searching. By the way, your site is great, I use it often with my students, they love the interactive quizzes. regards Michelle Feiglin Messages and opinions expre

Re: Fwd: [ha-Safran]: Bogus websites

2006-03-01 Thread R. Bhakti Klein
another great lesson plan is to go to snopes.com, pick a few urban/internet myths, some true some not, and have the students go to snopes and research them, their origins, validity, etc. this is especially useful for students who enjoy forwarding spam about nigerian inheritees, checks from bi

RE: [ha-Safran]: Bogus websites-summary of responses received

2006-03-01 Thread Stahl, Sheryl
Another one to add to your list is: http://www.come-and-hear.com/ Their home page says "An educational forum for the examination of religious truth and religious tolerance" I found their site when I was looking for online sources of Rabbinic texts to include on our website. They have digitized an

Re: [ha-Safran]: Bogus websites-summary of responses received

2006-03-01 Thread Jacob Richman
> I also noticed that"Akhla", a childrens' Jewish site that I > recommended to our students now has links to adult sites and > Christian sites, I would not recommend it any more. You may have a spelling mistake here. Some bad people open domains with similar spellings to lure people. I think th

[ha-Safran]: Bogus websites-summary of responses received

2006-02-27 Thread Yeshivah Secondary Library
Hi Thankyou for all your replies, I asked my colleague to send that email, so unfortunately it wasn't specific enough. I am teaching a class on evaluating Jewish websites and trying to point out the many pitfalls associated with searching, for example, if you type in "Mashiach" you are quickly

Re: [ha-Safran]: Bogus websites

2006-02-27 Thread Andrea Rapp
Not sure what you mean by "bogus," but to illustrate the problem of relying blindly on the internet, I have students go to martinlutherking.org, on the "logical" assumption that it would be a place to look for information on Dr. King. Then show them how to find out who runs a website, and then

[ha-Safran]: Bogus websites

2006-02-23 Thread Yeshivah Secondary Library
Hi, Can anyone suggest bogus websites to use for teaching purposes please. Thank you Kitty Ross Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for H