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Category Archives: Information Fluency

10 Things to Know

1. RESEARCH IS A PROCESS - use the BIG6 Skills!

2. BOOKS - use a variety of sources!
When you are researching and looking for good sources to include in a research paper, don’t forget to include books! There are many advantages to using books as sources.

The majority of useful information is just not [...]

Evaluating Web Sites

When researching on the Internet, carefully evaluate each web site to determine whether the information is reliable. Use one of these lists of questions to evaluate whether a web site is a good source of information:

The 5 W’s of Web Site Evaluation - for middle school
Criteria for Evaluating Information Sources
Checklist for Evaluating Web Sites [...]