Information Literacy Sites and Resources

 General information and resources across the curriculum.

Avoid Plagiarism List of sites to teach students how to easily avoid plagiarism in this "cut and paste" world.
BibMe Search for the title of your resource and automatically have an entry for your bibliography or works cited page.  Available for MLA, ALA, Chicago, and Turabian formats.
Bogus Websites A collection of links to sites that look great, and seem to contain valid information, but are in fact fake.  Helps teach students to look critically at what they find online.
The Last American Pirate Explains a hoax website and historical report created by students at George Mason University.  Shows how easy it is for bogus information to become available.
Noodle Tools Check out the many free options for research and search tips.
Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for WWW Resources Includes a multimedia presentation on how to evaluate webpages as well as an assessment form.
Thinking Critically about Web 2.0 and Beyond Set of questions to help assess the validity and worth of Web 2.0 resources.
Using Wikipedia in the Classroom Teach students to become critical users of this resource.  Includes links to tools and tips to become a fact checker in Wikipedia.
Website Evaluation Enter the URL of the site you wish to evaluate then use the wizard to help find information about the site.  Includes interactive tutorials.

 

Feel free to reproduce ANY of these tools for use in your class.

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Document Analysis Use this sheet to help students evaluate the quality of primary and secondary source documents.
Internet Content Evaluation For use in evaluating the worth of information found on the Internet.  Have students answer questions to help them learn to critically evaluate the information they find.
Internet Content Evaluation (short) A shorter version of the form linked above.
Photo Analysis Use this to help students critically evaluate photographs.  Perfect for history classrooms!  You supply your own photographs.
Website Evaluation Helps students critically evaluate the DESIGN of a website for such things as ease of use and layout.  If you want to assess the CONTENT, use one of the other forms above.