The Spider’s Apprentice

http://www.monash.com/spidap.html

This site will help teachers learn how search the Web more efficiently. “We explain to you how search engines work.  We advise you on improving your own search engine ranking by careful use of meta tags and keywords.  We guide you in figuring out which search engines are most effective--in fact, we rank them for you.”

QUICK (The Quality Information Checklist)

http://www.quick.org.uk/

This site guides you how to check the quality of the information found on the web.

Here’s a link to a printable page that will take you through the steps

 http://www.quick.org.uk/summaryprint.htm

Whosis Source

http://www.whois.sc/

Type in a URL and find out who owns a website.  It is best to sign up for a free membership to access everything the site has to offer.

Allwhois

http://www.allwhois.com/

Another resource to find out who owns a domain name.

Noodle Tools

http://www.noodletools.com//quickcite/

This site allows you to choose what type of citation you need (magazine, online resource, encyclopedia, etc.), fill in the necessary information, and creates the citation for you to copy and paste into your project.

Julie Szaj