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Background reading for teachers wanting more detailed information on developing student's critical evaluation skills.

Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation
Paul S. Piper
Background reading for teachers and older students on various types of bogus websites, including many dangerous sites sponsored by hate groups.
Evaluating Internet Resources
Annette Lamb, Eduscapes
A useful analysis of what students need to know to effectively evaluate web resources.
Information and Its Counterfeits: Propaganda, Misinformation and Disinformation
Elizabeth E. Kirk
Reading for older students that clearly defines propaganda, misinformation and disinformation, pointing out the differences between these and the accurate information that students go to the Internet expecting to find.
Visual Literacy K - 8
Steve Moline and David Drew
A clear explanation of visual literacy and using it in the classroom.

Callow, Jon [editor]
Image Matters: Visual Texts in the Classroom
Newtown, NSW : PETA, 1999. 125 p.
ISBN 1 875622 31 4
Contains an interesting introduction and looks at various print formats, television, CD-ROMs, and the World Wide Web from the perspective of teaching students how to read/view these various formats critically.
Burbules, Nicholas C. 1997,
'Rhetorics of the Web: Hyperreading and critical literacy', in Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era, ed Ilana Snyder.
Callow, Jon 2000,
'Deconstructing a web page', SCAN, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 15-16
Callow, Jon 2000,
'Looking ahead: The future of visual literacy is here now', SCAN, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 8-11
Moline, Steve 2000,
'Visualising information', SCAN, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 12-16
Sharpe, Tina and Dieter, Elizabeth 1999,
'Visual Literacy and the Internet', in Image Matters: Visual Texts in the Classroom, ed. Jon Callow
Zammit, Katina 2000,
'The literacy demands of visual texts: Working with new learning environments', SCAN, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 10-14