Objectives

On completion of this activity, you will be able to:

• use some effective strategies in the classroom to help your students assess the credibility and reliability of the information found online
• select resources for the classroom

Introduction

As seen previously (Information literacy, what is it?), language students need to develop skills that will enable them to critically evaluate online sources of information in the target language whether for a project or their personal use. You will find below a sample of resources, mostly designed by libraries. Clicking on the language tabs at the bottom of the page will give you access to similar resources in other languages.

 

Checklists

 

 

In addition to your library resources, the following sites may be of interest to you:

• Kathy Schrock’s guide to everything provides many checklists and resources that can be used with different audiences. Some of Schrock’s documents can be reproduced for classroom use. In particular, you may find The 5 W’s of Web Site Evaluation useful.
• The Berkeley Library guide to evaluating resources.
• 6 criteria for websites from Dalhousie University.

 

 

 

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