Do you need Havidol? Don't we all?

I love this new hoax site to use in teaching website evaluation. Thanks to Steve Borrelli for pointing out Michael Lorenzen's post on the new wonder drug, Havidol, which helps combat Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder (DSACDAD). Be sure to take the quiz that lets you know if you need Havidol. Like the site says, it's OK to need help :-).

This reminds me of another site I really loved: Lacuna Inc. But not enough students saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

One fake site that has tripped up a lot of my online students this year is the RYT Hospital. I have had a number of people go through the evaluation steps and determine that it's real. After all, it cites Time Magazine, right? And you can't fake a sonogram, can you?

Speaking of web evaluation, I'm going to be leading a discussion here next week on Marc Meola's "Chucking the Checklist" article (this link may work - ymmv). I think he's right to question some of the assumptions he makes but I think he may be overlooking the importance of IL/LI in teaching source evaluation, however we do it. More on that later.