• 21st Century Fluency Project
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Plagiarism
  Common Craft
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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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• 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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• WhoIs Project: A Tool to Investigate Information Authority, Authenticity, Ownership and Perspective
  Glean WhoIs helps you learn about who created a website. To get started, enter a website URL in the box. Then, read the information presented and use your mouse to highlight terms you would like to search on. You can also read more about the domain on Wikipedia or The Way Back Machine.
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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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• 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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• 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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• Teaching the Ten Steps to Better Web Research
  Teacher focused slide show -- long but well done - -
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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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• Cold Spring School Library Skills Blog
  A blog for the students of Cold Spring School for Library Skills Lessons.
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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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• 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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• 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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• All About Plagiarism Tutorial
  Real world, relevant plagiarism tutorial
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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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