Assessing Information's Reliability

  1. Tutorials
    1. Evaluating Web Resources
      http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/research/evaluating_web.html

    2. Evaluation of Web Resources - Lake Forest College Library
      http://library.lakeforest.edu/help/evalweb.html

    3. Finding information on the Internet A tutorial.
      http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

    4. ICYouSee T is for Thinking
      http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html

    5. Inflite information literacy
      http://inflite.ulib.iupui.edu/

    6. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
      http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html

    7. Web searching, sleuthing, and sifting
      http://www.thelearningsite.net/cyberlibrarian/searching/ismain.html

  2. Evaluating the Quality of Information, Websites, and Search Engines
    1. A guide to critical thinking about what you see on the web
      http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html

    2. Evaluating quality on the net
      http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html

    3. Resources for Evaluating Websites
      http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/WebEvalSchoolAge.htm

    4. Search engine showdown: The user's guide to web searching
      http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/

    5. SearchEngineWatch.com
      http://searchenginewatch.com/

    6. Thinking critically about World Wide Web resources
      http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm

    7. Thinking critically about discipline-based World Wide Web resources
      http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/discipline.htm

    8. Web search engines FAQs Questions, answers, and issues
      http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/oct01/price.htm

    9. Web-savvy keeping current with web-based resources
      http://www.thelearningsite.net/cyberlibrarian/elibraries/cybecurr.html

  3. Rubric for Online Instruction
    1. Developed by Laura Sederberg at Cal State Chico
      http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi/index.shtml