• 09 Jul 19
  

  gsheehy

  cracr research

• 03 Jun 14
  

  jschweighoffer

  Bookmarks bar Favorites Social Studies Research Topics

• 20 Feb 14
  

  N Butler

  Ca. Velcro Crop Under Challenge

• 06 May 13
  

  Robin Martin

  hoax web_evaluation website fake velcro websiteevaluation

• 09 Apr 13
  

  Ashley Sharp

  C. The website was published in 1993. The information has not been updated since its publish date and is most definitely out-of-date. There are no links on this website.R. Since the information has not been update, it cannot be too useful. A. The author is Ken Umbach, but he cannot be very credible since the information is not true. There is not contact information for anyone to reach this author. A. The information is not factual at all, so there is no evidence to support it. P. This website tries to persuade the readers about how Velcro is a form of crop, but this clearly false so this is propaganda. 

  velcro research

• 02 Apr 13
  

  Amy Killoran

  I would not use this website in the classroom, I don’t think it has much of a purpose and I don’t think I would be able to incorporate this into the classroom. This website is older and I wouldn’t be able to relate the information into a lesson

• 28 Mar 13
  

  Lauren Peterson

  Another great internet safety resource for students who believe everything they read online. It is a great introduction on how to find reliable information on the web.

  web2.0 fact_fiction

• 20 Mar 13
  

  Nick Gonzalez

  • The Issues

      Three issues have conspired to threaten and diminish the crop in California's southern San Joaquin Valley, especially drought-affected Kern County.

      

     
    • Dry and windy conditions have caused hook and loop spores to commingle even across widely spaced fields, resulting in tangled Velcro bolls combining both strains and unprocessable by any known means. 
      
     
    • Invasions of disease and pests have damaged the crop. Specifically (1) the flaccidity virus has resulted in weakened hooks, unable to hold adequately or even to snap through the corresponding loops, and (2) the pest millipedus minisculus, or 'tiny thousand-footed creature', has multiplied in the Velcro fields, frequently becoming so ensnared in the developing loops as to make the crop unharvestable. 
      
     
    • Drought has both limited water for the westside Velcro fields and exacerbated crop-stunting salinity. 
      Crop management for Velcro is made especially difficult by the need to outfit field workers head-to-toe in Teflon� jumpsuits. (The Teflon crop is another issue, to be tackled in a future report in this series.) Absent such protection, field workers are in danger of becoming enmeshed in t
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  Danielle Pendldeton
  • by Ken Umbach
• 17 Feb 13
  

  Deven Black

  hoax information_literacy web_evaluation research websiteevaluation velcro website_evaluation

• 16 Jan 13
  

  Natalie Janiszewski

  hoax web_evaluation website_evaluation research fake

• 13 Dec 12
  

  Tammy Makovec
• 15 Nov 12
  

  Tania Sheko

  hoax website_evaluation web_evaluation websiteevaluation velcro research Internet Information_literacy Evaluating Websites

• 14 Oct 12
  

  Karen Vitek

  " California's important Velcro crop, vital to the clothing, footwear, and sporting goods industries, has been severely stressed by drought, disease, and pests. "

  velcro website_evaluation

• 08 Oct 12
  

  Cindy Hubert

  website evaluation

• 07 Oct 12
  

  rhonda sancibrian

  web literacy evaluation

• 29 Aug 12
  

  Diana Evans

  Information Literacy websites hoax

• 26 Jul 12
  

  Shelly Landry

  hoax site

• 25 Jul 12
  

  Bonnie Campbell

  Fake Website

• 17 Jul 12
  

  Bonnie Sherman

  LMS_lesson acesarclms

• 26 Jun 12
  

  hudsont

  Bogus website

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  brazeltonh
• 16 Jun 12
  

  Jessica Stembridge

  Evaluating Sites

• 29 May 12
  

  Katharine Bracey
• 17 May 12
  

  Wendy Settles

  website_evaluation hoax Bookmarks Menu information literacy

• 02 May 12
  

  Helena Grant
• 25 Apr 12
  

  Melinda McGrath

  Ass 1
  hoax website
  Good because it has a graph & therefore looks 'scientific'

  Assignment 1 ETL523 MEDTL hoax website_evaluation

• 01 Apr 12
  

  Darien Parker

  Pretend "bad" website for library lesson about evaluating websites
  

  lesson library

• 29 Mar 12
  

  Trinity ISD
• 18 Mar 12
  

  T E

  evaluation_website

• 13 Mar 12
  

  Amy McKay

  fake sites website_evaluation information_literacy web_evaluation informationliteracy hoax velcro

• 09 Mar 12
  

  Erin Denniston

  hoax information_literacy web_evaluation website_evaluation websiteevaluation velcro research Internet

• 08 Feb 12
  

  Kelly Maher

  PowerSkills Web Site Evaluation

• 07 Feb 12
  

  Izaan K
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• 24 Jan 12
  

  Corrine Reiter

  website validity

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  website validity

• 20 Jan 12
  

  Sean Marie Sweeney
• 11 Jan 12
  

  D Hellmich

  Internet research

• 09 Jan 12
  

  Will Kirkwood

  hoax website_evaluation web_evaluation evaluation information_literacy fake

• 14 Dec 11
  

  June Yazel

  website-evaluation-sample lesson-plans digital-workshop website-evaluation

• 27 Nov 11
  

  Bridget Schaumann

  website_evaluation information_literacy internet_skills

• 17 Nov 11
  

  Bridget Farrell

  Fake site about velcro crop.

  verifying online safety

• 

  Christina Gard

  Good site for teaching about website validity

  website_evaluation research hoax

• 01 Nov 11
  

  Lori Quirk

  a hoax site about "velcro crop" for the purpose of education about website evaluation.

  web_evaluation hoax website_evaluation information_literacy

• 16 Oct 11
  

  Lyn Howlin

  Velcro crop in California sufering from drought, pests and disease

  website_evaluation bogus_website

  • California's climate and soil conditions make the state an ideal venue for  and successful producer of both strains of Velcro. For obvious reasons, of  course, the hook strain must be grown in fields separated from those with the  loop strain. This is often accommodated by widely spacing separate fields of the  two strains among large expanses of cotton, alfalfa, or other crops.
• 30 Sep 11
  

  kristina smith

  reliability website evaluation hoax

• 29 Sep 11
  

  Mary Ditty

  From Safari imported 5_23_11 5_28_10 12_2_09 Bogus Sites

• 28 Sep 11
  

  Hoax_Sites

• 27 Sep 11
  

  Deborah Swigert

  Library Information Research

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  SDR Technology

  Website_evaluation

• 17 Sep 11
  

  MaryBeth MacLeay

  bogus_ webevaluation

• 24 Aug 11
  

  Shirleyph Chan

  web_evaluation hoax information_literacy research

• 03 Aug 11
  

  Lucy De Palma

  web_evaluation_task

• 20 Jul 11
  

  smcmackn

  hoaxwebsites websiteevaluation

• 18 Jul 11
  

  Jessica Galvin

  website_evaluation

• 27 May 11
  

  Bill Belsey

  California's Velcro Crop

  for:Coolclass

• 09 May 11
  

  Shirley Hargis

  A scientific look at problems with the harvest. But it's a hoax.

  hoax web evaluation velcro

• 06 May 11
  

  Pebbles Stockdill

  Bogus Websites

  Year_5

• 28 Apr 11
  

  Joanna Maselli
• 13 Apr 11
  

  Beth O'Connell

  Website Evaluation spoof websites

• 04 Apr 11
  

  Lisa O'Meara

  evaluation

• 01 Apr 11
  

  Kathy Cook

  spoofs

• 29 Mar 11
  

  R.C. Iwabuchi

  webeval fake

• 18 Mar 11
  

  Amy Young

  website_evaluation bogus_sites

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  Jina Rappaport

  hoax web_evaluation information_literacy websiteevaluation velcro

• 07 Mar 11
  

  ameszaros

  hoax information_literacy

• 19 Feb 11
  

  mamirando

  hoax web_evaluation information_literacy website_evaluation websiteevaluation velcro Internet research

• 10 Feb 11
  

  ★★ ARStar

  Kepner web site evaluation information literacy

• 08 Feb 11
  

  Kristen Coston

  example of an unreliable website

  ELAC 9 evaluating sources

• 01 Feb 11
  

  Jane Trotter

  information_literacy website_evaluation internet bogus_hoax

• 31 Jan 11
  

  Michele Redding

  iSite

• 28 Jan 11
  

  Melissa Yeaw
• 14 Dec 10
  

  Kate Pierce

  website_evaluation

• 08 Dec 10
  

  Erin Fansler

  This site is a perfect example of a "bad website". It allows you to look at and learn how to analyze other "bad websites".

• 06 Dec 10
  

  Mr Maher

  bogus web sites

• 03 Dec 10
  

  Kim Becherer

  websiteevaluation

• 23 Nov 10
  

  Allison Schlageter

  hoax website_evaluation Classroom_Resources

• 17 Nov 10
  

  Robert Downey

  bogus hoax website_evaluation

• 10 Nov 10
  

  Mrs. Hirsch

  website_evaluation

• 08 Nov 10
  

  Alexander Williams

  webevaluation hoaxsites

• 01 Nov 10
  

  Julia Schumacher

  hoax web_evaluation

• 23 Oct 10
  

  Jeremy Davis

  "Velcro�, an engineered crop, consists of two distinct strains: hooks and loops. As any user of Velcro knows, a strip of hooks clings to a strip of loops as the springy hook-shaped fibers latch through tiny but firm loops. Gentle pressure allows the hook strip to be pulled from the loop strip. The user may repeat the process time and again, making this product a convenient,
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  versatile replacement for zippers, buttons, snaps, laces, and other forms of fastener in wide-ranging applications.
  
  California's climate and soil conditions make the state an ideal venue for and successful producer of both strains of Velcro. For obvious reasons, of course, the hook strain must be grown in fields separated from those with the loop strain. This is often accommodated by
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  widely spacing separate fields of the two strains among large expanses of cotton, alfalfa, or other crops."

  websiteevaluation hoax information_literacy research Internet web_evaluation

  • The user may repeat the process time and again, making this product a convenient
• 22 Oct 10
  

  Loreen Schallon

  fake hoax Information_Literacy internet literacy research website_evaluation bogus web_evaluation websiteevaluation Science

• 18 Oct 10
  

  Tracey Gentle

  California's important Velcro crop, vital to the clothing, footwear, and sporting goods industries, has been severely stressed by drought, disease, and pests.

  hoax_website information_literacy internet_research

• 12 Oct 10
  

  Megan Brennan

  joke fake verifying websites tool

• 15 Sep 10
  

  Carol Mayer

  WebSiteEvaluation example

• 10 Sep 10
  

  Laura Townsend
• 02 Sep 10
  

  Cheryl Youse

  Hoax Sites

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  Angela Lee

  internet website_evaluation year6

• 20 Aug 10
  

  NL To Evaluate

• 04 Aug 10
  

  Katie Shefren

  hoax velcro

• 24 Jul 10
  

  russ revzan

  hoax fake education research

• 08 Jul 10
  

  eSafety Officer

  research internet literacy resources website website_evaluation hoax KS3 information

• 30 Jun 10
  

  Lynette Breedlove

  Great hoax web site to use in teaching students web literacy

  hoax TXASCD web2.0 november

• 17 Jun 10
  

  Alfonso Gonzalez

  hoax web_evaluation website_evaluation web evaluation

• 16 Jun 10
  

  newme123

  How deceptive a site can be! Looks great!

  research technology lesson

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