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Online Sources & News Sources
Tutorial: Information has Value
An introduction to the ACRL Frame- Information Has Value. Realize your role as information creators and consumers and learn how issues like copyright and the digital divide affect your academic and personal lives.
Video: Introduction to Bias
This video introduces the idea of bias and prejudice and the importance of awareness of one’s own bias and the bias of others when evaluating sources and situations, and responding to arguments.
Video: Types of Bias
This video builds on the introduction to bias video by discussing specific types of bias such as social bias, confirmation bias, and communal reinforcement.
Quiz: Bias
This quiz corresponds with the video on bias.
Tutorial: Selecting Appropriate Digital Sources
This tutorial will help you identify your information need in order to locate and assess relevant resources. Using the techniques in this tutorial, you will also be able to distinguish among types of online sources in order to select those most appropriate for their information need.
Video Tutorial: Understanding Misinformation
This video will help you identify the characteristics and purpose of misinformation as well as its effect on your personal and academic lives.
Tutorial: Evaluating Digital Sources Using Lateral Reading
This tutorial will introduce you to the practice of lateral reading. Learn how to evaluate online materials by digging deeper into the origins and motives behind sites and practice lateral reading on your own through a guided activity.
Tutorial: News Reporting vs. Opinion Pieces in Journalism
This tutorial will help you differentiate between news journalism and opinion journalism in order to analyze the purpose, standards, and expectations related to reporting and editorializing.
