Activities and Videos
"Slide" numbers included within brackets
Start
Explore Topics
- QUIZ: Choose a Topic [9] Click
Call Numbers
- Library of Congress Call Numbers [3] Click
- Dewey Decimal System [4] Click
- QUIZ: Practice Arranging Call Numbers [5] Click
Explore Sources
Research Process
- QUIZ: Research Process - What's Logical? [4] Click
Subject Encyclopedias
- QUIZ: Subject Encyclopedias [9] Click
Books and e-Books
- Common Features of Books [3] Click
Magazines / Journals
- Explore Scholarly Journals [4] Click
- QUIZ: Scholarly or Popular? [8] Click
- QUIZ: Which Would You Use? [9] Click
Primary / Secondary
- QUIZ: Primary or Secondary? [9] Click
World Wide Web
- Learn the Domain Types [3] Click
- Questions of Review / Discussion [9] Click
Find Information
Library Catalogs
- VIDEO: Use Subjects to Expand Your Search [5] Click
Google Books
- VIDEO: Learn About the Book [4] Click
- VIDEO: Google Books - Use the Personalized Features [8] Click
Web Search Tools
- QUIZ: How Well do You Know Search Engines? [2] Click
- QUIZ: Finding Web Sites - How do Search Engines do it? [3] Click
Wikipedia
- VIDEO: Wikipedia.org - Who Writes the Articles? [3] Click
- VIDEO: Editing an Article - See How Easy It Is [4] Click
Search Strategies
- QUIZ: Search Strategies [9] Click
Boolean Operators
- Check your understanding: AND OR activity [5-7] Click
- QUIZ: Boolean Operators [9] Click
Evaluate Information
Books and Articles
- VIDEO: Authority: Find Information About the Publisher [2] Click
- VIDEO: Short Cuts to Evaluating: Book Reviews [5] Click
Avoid Plagiarism
Overview
- QUIZ: Is Plagiarism Serious? [3] Click
- QUIZ: What Did You Learn? : Define the Terms [9] Click
Practice
- Check your understanding: Acknowledge? Don't acknowledge? [4] Click
- Check your understanding: Plagiarism? Not plagiarism? [5] Click
- QUIZ: Plagiarism Mini Quiz [6] Click
