[WEB4LIB] Re: Whale of a Web authenticity instruction story

[Chan, Ian]

The Clones-R-Us site has worked will for us.

Two examples that I have used and to which students from different levels
have responded with interest to ..

1.  www.martinlutherking.org -- not a 'whale' site but instructive because
it brings up issues of free speech vs. slander, deception on the web, and
careful evaluation of a site's author, bias, etc.  We usually look at the
site first and talk about whether it should be banned.  Then we track down
the sites technical contact via allwhois.com and then visit the website
associated with the contact person's email address. [its something like
stormfront.org]  Even the students who are reluctant to be in library
workshop sit up and take notice.  

My colleague first located this site on a video from UCLA titled
'e-literate?'  I always experience a moment of doubt as I bring it up
on-screen b/c of its language .. 


2.  This is my own little example to contrast what might be viewed on a page
and what might actually lie within the HTML source ..
Of course this used to be more effective when search engines could be
deceived by this type of coding ..  nonetheless it gets the point across.
go to http://www.seattlecentral.org/faculty/iachan/workshops/example.htm and
then view source.


Ian Chan
Librarian
Seattle Central Community College
206.587.6336
seattlecentral.org/faculty/iachan/
<http://seattlecentral.org/faculty/iachan/> 
dept.sccd.ctc.edu/cclib/ <http://dept.sccd.ctc.edu/cclib/>