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LIBR 100 Final Assignment
Learning Outcomes for this Module Tools What You’ll Need What We Used site for hosting final assignment document Dropbox site for submission of student work Dropbox How to Credit Us Except where otherwise noted, the lesson plans on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. To credit us for this module/lesson plan, cite the […]
LIBR 100 Final Reflection
Learning Outcomes for this Module Tools What You’ll Need What We Used site for hosting final assignment document Dropbox site for submission of student work Dropbox How to Credit Us Except where otherwise noted, the lesson plans on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. To credit us for this module/lesson plan, cite the […]
Evaluating Sources Part 1: Fact-checking
Learning Outcomes for this Module Tools What You’ll Need What We Used Forum for student posts (2) Padlet Note to instructors We update the linked articles in Part 4 to keep current with the news cycle. The articles linked here are from the Spring 2025 semester. Additionally, for Part 4 we ask student to use […]
Search Strategies 2
Learning Outcomes for this Module Tools What You’ll Need What We Used Forum for posting response blog post on course site Note to instructors The “how-to” videos are specific to our Libraries’ search tool, OneSearch. We left them in as placeholders for this module but of course we expect that you will replace them with […]
Search Strategies 1
Learning outcomes for this module Tools What You’ll Need What We Used Forum for discussion Padlet A place for students to submit/share their answers to the activity Blog posts on our WordPress-based course site How to Credit Us Except where otherwise noted, the lesson plans on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike […]
Civic Engagement & Government Data
LO2: Critically assess information sources in pursuit of various purposes. LO3: Ask thoughtful questions. LO6: Reflect upon your own research process. Continue reading
Information Privilege
Learning Outcomes for this Module LO1: Define important concepts such as: authority, peer review, bias, point of view, editorial process, purpose, audience, information privilege and more. LO4: Turn questions into strategies for retrieving a variety of information sources. LO6: Reflect upon your own research process. Continue reading
Understanding URLs
Learning Outcomes for this Module LO1: Define important concepts such as: authority, peer review, bias, point of view, editorial process, purpose, audience, information privilege and more. LO2: Critically assess information sources in pursuit of various purposes. LO4:Turn questions into strategies for retrieving a variety of information sources. LO6: Reflect upon your own research process. Continue reading
Internet Search Engines
In this module we will be learning more about internet search engines, including everyone's favorite, Google. Although Google dominates the internet search world, and it can be an excellent tool to use, it is not the only search engine out there. We ask you to look more closely at some of the problems with Google, and explore some alternatives to Google as your only search engine. Continue reading
Reading Strategies (2022 version)
One step that is often overlooked in the research process is reading the sources you've found. In your college career so far, you may have already encountered difficulties reading academic/scholarly sources. As we've discussed, they are generally written for experts, so it can be overwhelming to try to understand them if you don't have the relevant background or expertise. For several reasons, reading an academic article from beginning to end the first time through may not the best strategy. In this module, we will think about strategies for making sense of scholarly journal articles. Continue reading
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