Information Literacy Resources
Starting Points
- Grammar of the Internet - Alan November
- 21st Century Information Fluency Project - NEW
- Information Literacy - The role of the librarian (WLMA site)
- Big Six Skills - Bellingham School District
- Information Literacy for Lifelong Learning - Eric digest
- Pandia Search Central - great search engine tutorial
- Search Engine Watch - keep track of search engine usage, tips, new engines, and services
Essential Tools
- Overture - Go to the "View Bid Tool" link
- The Wayback Machine - view previous versions of a web page
- Register.com - check to see who owns a web site
Effective Searching
- Searching the Web
- General Articles on Searching
- Bare Bones 101: Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web
- Lessons for Searching the World Wide Web
- Four NETS for Better Searching
- Advanced Searching Techniques
- An Interactive Search Engine Tutorial
- Effective On-line Searching
- UC Berkley's Finding Information
- How to Search
- KidsClick! - Worlds of Web Searching
- Crispen's "Google 101" PPT file
- Crispen's "Google 102" PPT file
Copyright
- Copyright Law and Fair Use - Stanford Univ.
- The Copyright Website
- Kindergarten Copyright
- Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use
- A brief intro to copyright by Brad Templeton
- 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained by Brad Templeton
- Landmark's Citation Machine
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