Authors, Authorship, Responsible Use of Other’s Work Resource Type: In-class activities Categories: Citing Students divide into smaller groups to discuss questions about authorship, author’s rights, and plagiarism. Read More
Cephalonian Cards Resource Type: In-class activities Categories: Getting started 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. Read More
Determining the bias and credibility of a website: In class exercise Resource Type: In-class activities Categories: Evaluating 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. Read More
Evaluating Web Sources Resource Type: In-class activities Categories: Evaluating Students evaluate web sources by answering questions about the author, publisher, and sources used. They then present their responses to the class. Read More
Identifying characteristics of least credible and most credible sources Resource Type: In-class activities Categories: Evaluating 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. Read More