"Metasurfing" is a great information literacy activity for students. Asking students to develop a rubric for, say, an effective political campaign web site, and then setting them loose to apply those rubrics (either by judging existing sites or creating their own) is like killing two birds with one stone. More than that--not only are they working toward both content and information literacy outcomes, they're doing both within a combined context that lives in the realm of higher order thinking skills.
Here are some resources to help students to practice "metasurfing" on the 2008 presidential campaign.
A Simple List of Presidential Campaign Web Sites (from USNews): no reviews, just a list
A Better List: detailing key features of each site
Juding 2008 Web Sites: one democrat's view of the the official democratic candidates' web sites.
techPresident: tracking each candidate's use of social networking and Web 2.0 media
Who's it gonna be? The Bivings Group analyzes web trends in the 2008 election.
Why you should care: blog post arguing that web site features will be important to attracting the youth vote
Campaign 2.0: E-Commerce times analyzes the field ... of web sites.
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