All Teaching Materials

This video walks through the basics of evaluating a website to find quality information. It encourages viewers to evaluate websites in the way an editor would review an article. By thinking like an editor, we can be our own gatekeeper and learn to find the most trustworthy information.

Students are prompted to select the best information source for a WR 122 essay from a short list URLs. They are prompted to consider the authority, bias, and currency in order to chose the most valuable.

A Yavapai College student explains the benefits of using library databases for research over searching the web.

Honors students at GMU explain scholarly conversations and how students play a part.

Students are asked to compare search results of library database with Google/web search. Assumes some familiarity with database searching.