Psuedo Sites

Jeffrey Hastings writes “Think you can tell an authoritative, scholarly web site from a “spurious” one? Think your students can?

Well, If you want a laugh, check out this collection of faux web sites. They started out as an idea I had for teaching information literacy but I found as I began to create them that they were so darned fun to write that I just couldn’t stop. Soon another nameless SUNY at Buffalo School of Information and Library Science alum joined in with his contributions.

What we ended up with is the germ of an encyclopedia that includes topics like “Biomes of the World,” “The American Civil War,” “The Planet Mars,” and an overview of the exploits of that famous Great Lakes region explorer “Sheldrake the Beneficent.” Believe me: writing them was an amusing way to pass the long winter evenings, and now that spring is approaching up here in the “Northern Norselands,” I’m glad to share them with you.

See for yourself! Have a look and, if you get the joke, feel free to send me your own, original, spurious web site. You can feel free to mirror or link to these sites as well, but I hope you’ll consider contributing an entry or two.

Find them all at:

http://www.howellschools.com/~hwms/encyclopedia



Jeffrey Hastings,
Librarian,
Highlander Way Middle School Library.
Send YOUR spurious encyclopedia entries in html to: [email protected]