• 21st Century Fluency Project
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• 21st Century Literacies: Tools for Reading the World
  A list of literacies for the 21st century - "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes." Today's researchers, citizens, must be able to analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data.
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• A Searcher’s Review of Twilight
  Book vs. Movie Through the Eyes of a Search Geek - Search Me!
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• A WebQuest about Evaluating Web Sites
  Not all Web resources are created equal. If fact, there are great variations in the quality of the resources you access. The rule of thumb is "when in doubt, doubt." When you carefully select your resources, when you understand their strengths and limits, you create better products.
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• All About Plagiarism Tutorial
  Real world, relevant plagiarism tutorial
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• Another Tool for Evaluating Websites
  The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
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• Better Whois
  The WHOIS domain search that works with all registrars.
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• Beyond Cut-and-Paste
  Great slide show with great tips on research process using Noodle Tools and Inquiry Based Process. Read to the end for great tips.
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• Big6 Matrix: Use the Internet with Big6 Skills to Achieve Standards
  Applying Big6™ Skills, AASL Standards and ISTE NETS to Internet Research
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• Bloomington 5-Star Research Process
  Click link for Essential Questions: Making research Meaningful --- Essential questions lead students to work at the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy. They motivate students to satisfy their curiosity and sense of wonder. They help students to understand the things that matters to them. Answers to essential questions cannot be found in a Google search. They must be invented and created.
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• Cold Spring School Library Skills Blog
  A blog for the students of Cold Spring School for Library Skills Lessons.
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• Dangerously Irrelevant
  Get sites from this Blog then delete from netvouz account
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• Dr. B's Internet Research Guide
  Atlantis Quest -- This project is designed to guide students through the research process in phases so that they can get feedback and revise and correct their work as they go along. Teaches searching techniques and website evaluation.
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• ETS iSkills Assessment Tour
  With the iSkills Assesment, the 7 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) proficiencies are tested (using either the Core or Advanced assessments). The iSkills assessment can help you evaluate students' ICT literacy to better position them for success in our technology-based society. Start with this tour!
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• FactCheckED
  FactCheckED is an offshoot of FactCheck.org, geared toward helping students to become critical thinkers and savvy media consumers. It gives students pointers on how to evaluate the information they find online. It includes lesson plans for teachers and guides for teaching critical thinking, the proper use of sources, and how to recognize deceptive arguments.
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• FamilyFirstAid.org -- Teen Pregnancy & other teen issues
  Our goal is to provide parents who are dealing with teens (12 years old and over) struggling in their home environment with information on different options and walk them through the admissions process.
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• GoogleWebSearchEducation - Webinar Archives
  As always, you can watch live in order to ask questions and chat with others, or watch the archives here:
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• High School Critical Web Page Evaluation Tool
  Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - High School Critical Web Page Evaluation Tool
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• Historians Question White House Presidential Bios - ABC News
  some of the entries on the White House website were so sunny that they reminded her of the happy talk at Boston Red Sox games. "When we go to the ballpark, they'll put on the scoreboard the statistics of the players who are coming to bat and they'll always find something good to say," says the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. "Maybe the guy has a .150 batting average, but they'll say, 'In the last six games, he hit .367.'" The White House site, http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents, offers one-page summaries of all 44 presidents, granting equal time to sluggers and bench-warmers.
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• How to Recognize Plagiarism - Indiana University
  This tutorial will help you to understand and recognize plagiarism. Avoiding plagiarism is important -- both in writing and speaking. When you properly acknowledge the contributions to knowledge made by other people, you are showing respect for their work, and you are giving credit where credit is due. You are not misleading the reader to believe that your work is solely your own.
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• ILILE, Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education
  The Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education provides local, regional and national leadership in fostering valuable collaboration among teachers, school library media specialists and academic faculty who work together to promote information literacy in the K-16 classroom.
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• Information Literacy for K-16 Settings
  California State University Long Beach has developed a series of learning experiences that help students and teachers incorporate information literacy into the library media program and collaborate with classroom teachers to infuse information literacy across the curriculum. They developed this Web site to provide Web sites and other resources on information literacy and supportive lesson plans. The main part of the Web site is comprised of seven modules: an overview, followed by each of the Big6 research steps. Cumbersome - many links but worth looking at . . .
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• information_literacy
  a great list of links to sites discussing information literacy
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• Interrogating Texts
  6 Reading Habits to Develop in Your First Year at Harvard - Add to "How to Study" resource list. Great reminder that critical reading is imperative to the learning process.
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• Joyce Valenza's Internet Literacy Lessons
  Online Activities Promoting Information Literacy The following activities focus learners on the process skills recommended by the American Association of School Librarians, the International Society of Technology Educators, and the American Association of College and Research Libraries
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• Library Instruction.Com
  This site contains library instruction lesson plans, articles about library instruction, a large library instruction bibliography, and links to library instruction resources. This site also includes material relating to information literacy.
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• Media & Information Literacy
  Multitudes of resources on media, information, and many other defined literacy areas
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• Myths about restricted Internet in schools
  Dispelling Myths About Blocked Sites | Karen Cator, Department of Education’s Director of Education Technology, parsed the rules of the Childrens Internet Protection Act, and provided guidance for teachers on how to proceed when it comes to interpreting the rules. To that end, here are six surprising rules that educators, administrators, parents and students might not know about website filtering in schools.
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• Need for critical reading skills - Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
  Professor discusses study regarding student research skills. Breaking News Videos from CNN.com - Is the tree octopus real?
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• November Learning - Information Literacy Resources
  These resources will help you become a more productive user of the Internet. Great tools for teaching Internet literacy - Alan November.
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• NYLearns.org -- Welcome to NYLearns.org!
  In the New York State Learning Standards, statements are arranged within standard areas from the very broad standard statements to the less general key ideas down to more specific performance indicators.
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• Plagiarism
  Common Craft
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• Program Planning - Educator Resources - New York City Department of Education
  The Office of Library Services has developed several documents to assist your school in developing an exemplary 21st Century library program. 
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• project SAILS - Info Lit Assessment for Academic Institutions
  A thorough search of the library literature revealed that our profession was not yet in a position to agree upon the best method for assessing information literacy skills, let alone assert they make a difference. The Project for Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (SAILS) is a Kent State University initiative to develop an instrument for standardized assessment of information literacy skills. We envisioned a standardized tool that is valid and reliable; contains items not specific to a particular institution or library but rather assesses at an institutional level; is easily administered; and provides for both external and internal benchmarking. With such a tool, we will have the ability to measure information literacy skills, gather nati
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• Questioning Toolkit
  Each district should create a Questioning Toolkit which contains several dozen kinds of questions and questioning tools. This Questioning Toolkit should be printed in large type on posters which reside on classroom walls to guide instruction and learning. -- This website hosts a litany of questions and question types with explanations of how and when these tools should be used.
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• RADCAB
  Steps for Online Information Evaluation
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• Research Project Calculator
  Caution: Deadlines are closer than they appear -- Research calculator to help set checkpoints for completion of various project segments
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• Resourcing Curriculum -- Evaluating Websites
  Students and teachers need to acquire critical evaluation skills which will enable them to identify and extract quality information that meets their needs. See also link regarding copyright in the classroom.
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• S.O.S. for Information Literacy
  A virtual idea factory for teaching information literacy skills
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• Search Engine Watch
  Site is a forum of information about search engines. This page explains how search engines find and rank web pages, with an emphasis on what webmasters can do to improve their search engine rankings by properly submitting, using better page design, and other tips.
  Want to learn about SEO and SEM? Check out these search engine marketing and search engine optimization resources from Search Engine Watch.
  engine engines guide html internet marketing meta optimization pages positioning ranking search submission tags web webmasters
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• Search Lesson Plans by Keyword and Subject for Your SMART Board
  SMART Exchange
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• SpeakOut.com - Issues
  Good Website -- IN 2002!!! -- Use to teach timeliness!!! Thirty-second news stories don't give enough information. Newspapers and magazines can give you too much data on subjects you don't care about. SpeakOut.com solves both problems by providing the entire range of information in one place. Even better, we organize our information into topics and sub-topics, and provide links to give you even more information.
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• Student's Wikipedia hoax dupes newspapers: report - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
  An Irish student's fake quote on the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia has been used in newspaper obituaries around the world, the Irish Times reported on Wednesday.
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• Teaching the Ten Steps to Better Web Research
  Teacher focused slide show -- long but well done - -
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• Teen Learning 2.0
  This tutorial is designed so that you can learn how to use the tools of web 2.0 for your classes or for fun. You may do it on your own or as a part of a group. We hope that you will have fun – because these websites are full of creative ideas for you to use. This blog / pathfinder is based upon the "23 Things" model to open access to 2.0 tools for students.
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• Ten Steps to Better Web Research
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• Texas Slavery Project
  [NOTE: Google search for slavery in Texas does not discover this source on first several pages (as of 3/15/2010) -- use for Info Literacy Lesson] The Texas Slavery Project takes a deep look at the expansion of slavery in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico in the years between 1837 and 1845. ... The project offers a number of digital tools that allow users to explore the changing face of slavery in early Texas includes maps
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• The findingDulcinea Blog: Time to Stop Teaching that ".Govs" Can Be Trusted
  Sometime in the mid-1990s, someone created a tutorial that said that an important aspect of judging a Web site’s trustworthiness is its top-level domain, such as “.com,” “.edu,” “.org” and “.gov.” . . . . . . . . Teaching this does more harm than good. . . . . . . . First of all, it's simplistic. . . . . . . . . . More importantly, an indispensible aspect to determining the accuracy of information is objectivity.
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• The Information Cycle
  How todays events become tomorrow's information. Describes the layered, cyclical nature of information creation using Columbine as an example.
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• The News Literacy Project
  The News Literacy Project is a response to the growing challenge of assuring that America’s young people get the information they need to become well-informed citizens and voters in the 21st century. NLP taps experienced journalists to help middle and high school students "sort fact from fiction in the digital age.” The project teaches students critical-thinking skills that will help them become smarter consumers and creators of information across all types of media. It shows students "how to distinguish verified information from spin, opinion, and misinformation-whether they are using search engines, viewing a video on YouTube, watching television news, reading a newspaper or a blog post, or assessing a viral eMail,."
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