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WWW Strategies for Students:
a. Reword the search term
b. Use of Boolean logic
c. Look past the first page
d. Different search engines have different parameters
e. Academic databases and subject specific engines exist

Evaluating Webpages:
a. Look at the domain (.com, .edu, .org, etc.)
b. Examine the text for bias
c. Use alexa.com
d. Check info against reliable sources, bound to be some overlap

Bloom's Taxonomy:
a. Pyramid structure--must acquire foundations (knowledge, comprehension and application) before constructing the top sections (analysis, evaluation and synthesis)
b. Include objectives such as learning vocab and comparing two poems at each level with creation and critical analysis at the end
c. Use Bloom's verbs to form questions at each level such as define and lavel for knowledge and compose and hypothesize for Synthesis
Here are a few links:
1. http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learning/exams/blooms-taxonomy.html
2. http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/bloom.html
3. http://educate.intel.com/en/ProjectDesign/thinkingskills/
thinkingframeworks/bloom_taxonomy2.htm
Contains the improved pyramid with creation (synthesis) at the peak instead of evaluation