I visited Kathy Schrock's website and completed a critical evaluation on an elementary website. Schrock has multiple listings of bogus websites. I evaluated the website, Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. This site is interesting and may appear professional, but not very believable. It has information, facts, sighting, activities, and media about the Tree Octopus. The wording seemed intellectual, but the pictures where unrealistic and the stories were bizarre. I researched the school that was accredited at the bottom of the page and it brought me to a site that explained more about this Tree Octopus. A professor made up this site for an experiment with his students. Over 90% of his students thought this Tree Octopus was real and the site was credible. This helped the students research for more credible sites in the future. Kathy Schrock's evaluation is a great tool to help students and teachers find out if the website they are researching is credible
Although this story is fictitious, I thought it would be a great read for some of my third graders. I did a web evaluation on this site also. I think this story is a great example of teaching students that all information on the internet is not always true.
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