Introduction

This is a short list of of reaources for Information Literacy. It was derived from a list of about 300 sites I have been gathering since 1996.

Internet Links

Evaluating Information

Computer Incident Advisory Capacity

Official US gov. virus warning site.

Palgiarism and Anti-Plagiarism

Nice overview done in 1998. Link rot has claimed about 30% of the sites as of 11/01/01, but still very useful.

Computer Incident Advisory Capacity

Official US gov. virus warning site.

Hoax Busters

Offshoot of CICA to handle hoaxes and urban legends

Hoax Pages

A long list of hoax and urban legend pages

Media Literacy

Curriculum resource designed to strengthen media literacy and communication skills and promote reading, writing and critical thinking skills for students in grades K-12

Bogus Pages on the Internet

Examples of pages that are not what they appear to be.

Media Awareness Center

Teaches kids about media literacy. One of the best of its genre!

Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources

UCLA checklist for judging the quality of material on the web.

QUICK - QUality Information ChecKlist

Tutorial and quiz for kids

Plagiarism & Copyright

Copyright in the Classroom

Fair use guidelines for teachers

Palgiarism and Anti-Plagiarism

Nice overview done in 1998. Link rot has claimed about 30% of the sites as of 11/01/01, but still very useful.

How Not to Plagiarize

Advice written for college students

Critical Thinking

Big6 Research

The most used research method in K-12 education. Provides a common vocabluary and builds problem solve and critical thinking skills

The WebQuest Page

Bernie Dodge's WebQuest Page

Ozline

The theories of Tom March

Tools &Tutorials

Noodle Tools

A free suite of interactive tools designed to help students and teacher do research

Citation Creator

You supply the information and OSLIS generates the citation for you to copy and paste into your work.

TILT - Texas Information Literacy Tutorial

Top Knotch Tutorial!

Digital Index Card

Online tool for gathering and evaluating information

Misc

Netiquette

WWW version of the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea, published by Albion Books.

Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy

Concept Mapping

Overview and links to a large selection of software for concept mapping

Concept Mapping Resources

Hotlist of Concept Mapping resources

Conclusion

If there isn't enough here to keep you busy, you can visit my full set of Information Literacy resouces.

created by Art Wolinsky email: awolinsky@oii.org http://www.web-and-flow.com/members/awolinsk/infolit/hotlist.htm