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Assessing Reliability Students who are accustomed to doing research in libraries face new issues when they start doing research on the Internet. Before a book or journal appears in a university library, it has usually gone through a number of checks to make sure the information in it is reliable.

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

I think most students are familiar with using Google to search for things, so the interface is not a big stretch, as opposed to using other science specific databases available through the library. It does come down to what the objectives for the students are though, if you want them to find a few primary lit articles to include in a research project then Google Scholar would probably be just fine, but if you're objective is to get them ready for more grad level research then you probably want them to have to learn how to use some other databases ...

How do you know if something you read is true? Why should you care? We pose these questions this week in honor of News Engagement Day on Oct. 6, and try to answer them with resources from The Times as well as from Edutopia, the Center for News Literacy, TEDEd and the NewseumEd.

You can use most of the options we discussed in Google's Advanced Search Form in a regular search box query. If you're a frequent searcher or a "power searcher," this can save time because you don't need to open the Advanced Search page and fill in various boxes; instead, you can enter the refined query in almost any Google search box.

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Make a map from a list of multiple locations, use addresses, postcodes, or coordinates. Free hosting for your own interactive map locator. Being able to easily map historical data to geographical data can help students better understand who different historical events were related to each other, whether that is large scale events like different riots in a city or the addresses of important individuals, or the location of important life events for a single person. BatchGeo is a tool that interfaces with Excel and Google Maps to easily place data on a map. This is a tool that could be used by faculty to create resources for students or an easy to learn tool that students themselves could use.

With the Mac OS X App the One Button Studio is now accessible to everyone around the world. The app integrates third party hardware to give you an automated and streamlined video recording studio. Be sure to look at the Setup section of the website to see how to fully configure the app and studio for your location.

Video has supported education for many years, and in online courses instructional videos are often a key component. To learn more about compelling video, a team at the Columbia University School of Continuing Education examined analytics from the video hosting platform and recruited 10 students to participate in in-depth interviews.

Plagiarism is the act of taking another person's writing, conversation, song, or even idea and passing it off as your own. This includes information from web pages, books, songs, television shows, email messages, interviews, articles, artworks or any other medium.

These videos is that they are small chunks of materials, well presented, by experts in the area. Meaning that 1) they will likely present it better than I will and 2) the focus is tight enough that I won't have to tell students "only watch the first ten minutes."

Quickly assess students with prepared activities or on-the-fly questions to get immediate insight into student understanding. Then use auto-populated results to determine the best instructional approach to most effectively drive learning.