Tewinkle Middle School
Internet Research Workshop
May 21, 2004

Librarian: Judy Ruttenberg, University of California Irvine
Liaison to Department of Criminology, Law & Society


 
 

OBJECTIVE:  To evaluate different websites for their accuracy, objectivity, currency and coverage.

One way to be sure to locate websites that have already been evaluated by the criteria above is to look in a specialized search engine:

But sometimes, you run across a website that looks like it's on your topic, and you have to judge for yourself.
 
 
FICTIONAL SCENARIO: The following discussion items are on your local school board agenda. The school board has hired you as their consultants to do some background research on these topics and to provide them with some websites that will help inform their decision-making.  Working in pairs, you will each examine 3-4 websites on your subject. Using this worksheet, you will decide whether to include the website into the briefing book you are preparing for the school board members.

This is not about your ability to locate websites -- that has been done for you, below. The object of this assignment is to use your judgement about whether the websites listed below are good, and worthy of your recommendation.

SCHOOL DRESS CODES

Pauline's School Uniforms and Dress Codes Page
http://www.geocities.com/hardingpj/uniforms.html

School Uniforms, Dress Codes, and Book Bags
http://www.schoolsecurity.org/resources/uniforms.html

Uniforms/Dress Codes
http://www.ecs.org/ecsmain.asp?page=/html/IssuesK12.asp --> SELECT FROM THE DROP-DOWN MENU "Uniforms/Dress Codes"

Parents say school's zero-tolerance dress code too extreme
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/92903_APstate_dresscode.html

RANDOM DRUG TESTING

Drug Testing Fails our Youth
http://www.drugtestingfails.org/

Home Drug Tests and Your Child
http://kidshealth.org/research/home_drug_tests.html

ACLU of Texas Position
http://www.aclutx.org/pubed/positionpapers/studentdrugtesting.htm

National Student Drug Testing Committee
http://www.studentdrugtesting.org/

FILE-SHARING (COPYRIGHT)

U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs
http://govt-aff.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Detail&HearingID=120

MegaGames: Pro Napster Hackers Unite
http://www.megagames.com/news/html/pc/pronapsterhackersunite.shtml

Copyrighting in the Digital Age
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/digital_copyright/index.html

HalfBakery
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Bookster#1058122650

SPORTS VIOLENCE

"Prosecuting Professional Sports"
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/student/20040324_lynch.html

"Thugs on Ice"
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E29324%257E2011286,00.html?search=filter

The Bertuzzi Incident
http://my.modblog.com/?show=forum&id=96083