[PHSW] [Fwd: Evaluating Internet Health Information tutorial on MedlinePlus]

[Laura Larsson]

Friends:

Many of you spend a lot of time evaluating content on the Web for your 
clients. You might find this tutorial of interest as you visit sites.

Laura

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Subject: Evaluating Internet Health Information tutorial on MedlinePlus
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:53:43 -0500
From: Miller, Naomi (NIH/NLM) [E] <millern at MAIL.NLM.NIH.GOV>
Reply-To: Miller, Naomi (NIH/NLM) [E] <millern at MAIL.NLM.NIH.GOV>
To: MEDLIB-L at LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU

Colleagues--We're pleased to announce the addition of a tutorial
entitled, "Evaluating Internet Health Information" to MedlinePlus. This
tutorial teaches users how to to evaluate the health information they
find on the Web. It is about 16 minutes long.

You need a Flash plug-in, version 6 or above, to view it. If you do not
have Flash, the page helps you perform a free download of the software
before you start.

The tutorial runs automatically, but you can also use the navigation bar
at the bottom of the screen to go forward, backward, pause, or start
over.

The tutorial is linked from the Information for Librarians and Trainers
page (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/training/trainers.html) as well
as from the MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthywebsurfing.html)

Thanks to Stephanie Dennis, NLM Associate Fellow, who created the
tutorial as an associate project, and the RML Consumer Health and
Outreach librarians for their valuable feedback.

Naomi Miller
Manager, Consumer Health Information
National Library of Medicine
millern at mail.nlm.nih.gov
301-496-0240

-- 
Keep well and connected,

Laura Larsson
Information Content Manager
Digital Assets Manager
Online Learning Developer
Information Appliance/PDA Trainer

Clinical Faculty
Health Services, SPHCM
University of Washington
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