Toolkit Authors, Authorship, Responsible Use of Other’s Work Students divide into smaller groups to discuss questions about authorship, author’s rights, and plagiarism. Resource Type: In-class activities Categories: Citing
Toolkit Cephalonian Cards Cards with pre-printed questions are passed to several students. Students read the questions aloud; the instructor answers them (with or without slides). Quick intro to factual material, and sets up a question-and-answer dynamic that often leads to students asking their own questions. Resource Type: In-class activities Categories: Getting started
Toolkit Determining the bias and credibility of a website: In class exercise Assign each small group/row of computers a different website from the list provided, give time to investigate, and then report out to the larger group, having volunteers teach from podium if desired. Resource Type: In-class activities Categories: Evaluating
Toolkit Evaluating Web Sources Students evaluate web sources by answering questions about the author, publisher, and sources used. They then present their responses to the class. Resource Type: In-class activities Categories: Evaluating
Toolkit Identifying characteristics of least credible and most credible sources Students brainstorm types of sources that they think are “credible” and “not credible” in order to elicit a conversation about a) what a source is and b) what makes it credible or not. Resource Type: In-class activities Categories: Evaluating