How to Use OneSearch: Citation Tool
(View Complete Item Description)Using automatic citation generator in York College Library OneSearch.
Material Type: Tutorial
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Why We Cite
(View Complete Item Description)This activity helps students recognize scholarship as a type of discourse that is distinguished by a unique set of conventions/modes of behaving. It also reveals they are learning how to participate in this conversation and recognize why citation is an important convention of scholarship.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Handouts
(View Complete Item Description)These handouts and tutorials are designed to help students with citations in APA and MLA formats.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Tutorial
Copyright
(View Complete Item Description)A reference for current copyright law. Covers copyright materials, film music & digital media, CC/Open Access, Fair Use & current issues.
Material Type: Reference
Fact-Checking
(View Complete Item Description)A hands-on introduction to the journalist’s ritual of fact-checking to prevent errors and ensure accuracy.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Fake News Resources
(View Complete Item Description)A faculty toolkit covering the teaching of fake news. Includes an OER textbook, website links to Factcheck.org, Snopes, and Politifact, and a video from the organization Learning for Justice.
Material Type: Reference, Textbook
Verification
(View Complete Item Description)Use research techniques to find clues and corroborating evidence to verify images, videos, and information, and avoid amplifying fabricated news and propaganda.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Beyond Wikipedia: Background and Reference Sources
(View Complete Item Description)Wikipedia is a fine place to start your research and to get a quick initial take on a subject. But to be sure you are finding the best sources on a topic and the most reliable information available, you'll want to move on to library recommended resources. Use this guide to find: print and electronic background and reference sources, subject-specific research guides, format-specific research tools, tips for effective research, and more!
Material Type: Reference, Student Guide
Primary vs. Secondary
(View Complete Item Description)Lesson Plan: Use to help students distinguish between primary and secondary sources so they know how to use them in the appropriate context. "Wheel of sources" game: Created by UCLA librarians, this interactive game helps tests students knowledge about primary and secondary sources. Associated lesson plan is listed above.
Material Type: Game, Interactive, Lesson Plan
Popular vs. Scholarly
(View Complete Item Description)Use this activity to help student recognize various types (genres) of information and how they may be useful in the research process.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Finding Experts
(View Complete Item Description)Discover tools to identify & search for diverse experts to help inform your reporting
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Court Records Research
(View Complete Item Description)Learn to navigate court and corrections records to inform your reporting.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Social Media
(View Complete Item Description)A guide to using user-generated social media content inform and shape your stories.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
NonProfits
(View Complete Item Description)Learn how to use 990 tax filings and other sources to find information about a nonprofit.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Freedom of Information
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson will demystify the process of filing a freedom of information request as a news gathering tool to inform your reporting.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Finding People
(View Complete Item Description)Find sources and information for your beat and add them to your beat memo.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Evaluating Multiple Source Types
(View Complete Item Description)This activity asks students to evaluate multiple sources in order to become more critical consumers of information. *Note: This is a flipped classroom activity. You will need to provide students with four source types that students will evaluate as homework.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan
Evaluation Criteria Carousel
(View Complete Item Description)Students will create evaluation criteria that they can use to determine the quality of a source.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan
Identifying Genres of Information
(View Complete Item Description)Use this activity to help students distinguish between information types. To prep, identify three web resources (e.g., a newspaper article, scholarly article, published interview, a blog...). Then navigate students to the links (post them to eportfolio or Blackboard) and ask them to answer the questions on the following handout. Alternatively, assign this handout as a research log and ask students to use it to record citation information for the sources they select for their research.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment
PD Series: Information Literacy at Guttman
(View Complete Item Description)A presentation on information literacy instruction recommendations for Guttman College.
Material Type: Lecture, Reference, Teaching/Learning Strategy