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Here you will play an interactive game and learn how to correctly format APA or MLA citations for some of the most commonly used citation types.

Beth Gourley of ASMSA reviews it: "... like many cite generators the citation generation is sloppy, and it needs a good deal of editing....when using citation generators, NoodleTools gets the citation format correct."

EasyBib social media citations handouts

Links to several other resources

Plagiarism.org offers printable handouts on plagiarism, proper citation, and paper writing. plagiarism.org/resources/student-materials -- From AASL Tip of the Day

"Our job as teachers is to draw our students attention to the fact that copy-paste culture is destructive and that appropriate citations and crediting back the sources, if ever we are allowed to, are two important things we always need to invoke as we are dealing with both digital and non digital content.  I have an entire section in this blog packed full of resources, tools and tips on how to teach your students about copyright, check it out here to learn more. Today, I am sharing with you this wonderful flowchart I come across in digital inspiration. You can use it with you students to teach them about the kinds of images to cite and how to do so."

Citelighter goes way beyond citation. If you pay for a subscription, it includes the Questia database, and incredible teacher tools for analyzing student writing and research. If you want to use pdfs you need to operate in Mozilla. The citelighter toolbar seems to interact well with our intense firewall.

Citation game chalenging students to decide whether the incident is plagiarism.

Test your knowledge of plagiarism and citation with these quirky videos from Rutgers University Library.

"Although Wikipedia is a great place to find information, it's subject to incomplete citations, biased views, and inaccuracies. And when you absolutely have to have undisputable facts, that's just not good enough. Fortunately, there are plenty of alternatives out there that can deliver with high quality accuracy, and we've listed 25 of the best here."

this article written in 2008 is a bit old now and some of the 25 online sources mentioned no longer exist and are of questionable quality

Great article on using digital microstories to draw students back into literature and teach skills from the standards. The authors address the purpose behind this strategy, links to digital microstories, and ideas for digital presentations from students. They also touch on citation of images.

free service offering a nice set of tools for highlighting, annotating, and bookmarking webpages. Scrible offers browser bookmarklets for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer.