In-class activities

Students divide into smaller groups to discuss questions about authorship, author’s rights, and plagiarism.

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.

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.

Students evaluate web sources by answering questions about the author, publisher, and sources used. They then present their responses to the class.

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.