The title is "Feline Reactions to Bearded Men". This is a study where they showed pictures of bearded men and supposedly recorder their responses to collect data. The content appears to be accurate. I couldn't find the date of the sites creation. All the links work and the picture below shows you how user friendly they appear. I used deleted parts of the URL until I got back to the home site which is www.improb.com. No credentials found. It ends in .com, but that makes it seem legit. No other sites link to this one. The site is meant to persuade/inform and really just to entertain. It's a biased website and tough to tell fact from fiction. The site is very user friendly and the design is good with a consistent format from page to page. The spelling and grammar was good.
http://burmesemountaindog.info/
The title is "Burmese Mountain Dog". This website appears to contain information about the Burmese Mountain dog. It appears to be accurate information but it is willed with bias and opinion statements. Most of the links work. It says that it is the official site for this dog and the site appears to be created by a Dr.Charlie White. Having the doctor as the creator makes you believe it is a real site. It is very tough to distinguish fact from opinion. The page seems cheesy, but it is labeled pretty well. No spelling errors. I think this site is very tricky to tell that it is a fake.
Since I teach 3rd grade, an activity that I would do would be on acceptable use. I would pull up websites on the projector and ask them to discuss if the sites fit our definition of acceptable use at school. The second activity would be to teach them about cyber-bullying using email and facebook, yes third graders have facebook accounts, and explain what cyber-bullying is, what to do if it is happening, and the consequences for cyber-bullying.
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