• 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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• The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Home
  The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has emerged as the leading advocacy organization focused on infusing 21st century skills into education. --- Check out ICT Literacy Maps under "Tools & Resources" tab !!! - English, Social Studies, Geography, Science
  The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
  21st century for partnership skills the
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• TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial
  Great Tutorial ! ! ! TILT is an educational Web site designed to introduce first-year students to research sources and skills. The tutorial offers an introduction and three modules, which you can complete in any order. Each should take you approximately 30 minutes. Whether this site introduces new information or is a review, these fundamental concepts will be useful for any type of research you may do and will contribute to your success as a student. Each module concludes with a quiz; it may be helpful to take notes.
  brent clara dupuis elizabeth fowler information internet library literacy multimedia simpson skills texas tutorial university
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• TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills
  TRAILS is an assessment of information literacy knowledge with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on sixth and ninth grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media specialists and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students.
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• Website Evaluation Wizard
  WOW!!!!
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• Whodunnit?
  Imagine using an online catalog to search for a book, only your search sends you smack to page 129 of a book. You can't see the author's name, find the table of contents for the book, or even figure out when and where it was published. Web searches do the same thing, often landing you right in the middle of a web site. How do you find the information you need to cite the source? Here are some good puzzles to work out.
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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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• Wiki to support Info Literacy teaching - Trails 9
  Wiki to support Info Literacy teaching - Trails 9 -- Developing, narrowing / expanding topic choices
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• Wikipedia
  Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia - #6 "We do not expect you to trust us"
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