1. Finding and Using Reliable
Internet Sources
MaryKatherine Hinman
Grade 9
Academic/Honors English

2. Technology Integration Rationale
Rationale
My lesson requires students to find and use
sources from the internet while determining
whether or not those sources are reputable.
Since anyone can publish anything on the
internet, it is important for my students to be
able to sift through internet material to find
reliable sources. My students will need to be
able to use reputable internet sources in
projects or papers that I assign.

3. My Source Reliability
Each of my sources has been identified as
reliable and useful for my students.
I am only including websites sponsored by a
government agency, university, etc. or that I
have determined to be educational and
accurate.
I have included citations for my sources under
each slide in the “Notes” sections.

4. YouTube Video
The West Kentucky
Community and Determining Reliable
Technical College Sources
Library posted this Although the video is
instructional video on geared towards
YouTube about students at the college
evaluating internet level, the material
sources for reliability presented is incredibly
and accuracy. useful.

5. Challenging Sources Blog
Howard Kurtz CNN Blog
Howard Kurtz’s blog would push
students to deeply consider
the ways in which things are
portrayed or reported through
different media. Who controls
what gets published? How
can we be sure that we are
getting the whole story?

6. Plagiarism Podcast
Since my students will be Ressler English 10
integrating the Podcast
information that they
find in reliable internet
sources into
assignments, I will need
to make sure that they
understand the nature of
plagiarism and ways to
avoid it through citations

7. Internet Resources
Internet Detective
This website, run by the Intute Virtual Training
Suite and the LearnHigher project, offers
students an in-depth look at plagiarism laws
and ways to evaluate internet content. Once
the student has read through each of the
subtitled pages, he or she can complete a brief
assessment to check for understanding.

8. Internet Resources
Purdue OWL MLA Style Guide
The Purdue University Online Writing Lab’s
guide to MLA formating is a great resource for
my students to use as they create their
bibliographies or cite sources in their papers.
This resource will allow them to avoid
plagiarism

9. Internet Resources
George Mason Evaluation Criteria
The GMU ITU Support Center has a link on its
page to this listing of criteria to meet and
questions for researchers to answer when
evaluating the credibility of an internet
resource. The site also shows students how to
use domain names in credibility evaluation
which I found very helpful.

10. Graphic Organizer/Diagram

11. Credibility Jumble
Unscramble each of the clue words.
Take the letters that appear in circled boxes and unscramble them for the final message

12. Is there an App for that?
EasyBib is a great resource for students who are
looking to put together a Works Cited page in
MLA format. Clicking on the picture above links
to the EasyBib app on the iTunes website.
EasyBib is available for iPhone, iPad and online.

13. Source Credibility Worksheet
This worksheet
allows students to
further consider
their source’s
credibility and use in
a research paper. I
also like that the
worksheet prompts
students to consider
the ways in which
they would use their
chosen source.

14. Site Credibility Checklist
This worksheet
would be a great
step-by-step way for
students to evaluate
the credibility of a
website. The use of
numbers make the
decision more
concrete.

15. Subject-Specific Website
Read, Write, Think
This website is a great resource for Language
Arts teachers. There are links to lesson plans
(which include plagiarism, paraphrasing and
proper citation!) and different ways to
develop and grow as a teacher.

16. Supporting Websites
Online Encyclopedia Research Strategies
• Encyclopedia.com would be • This site is a great way for
a great way for my students students to seriously think
to begin exploring online to about exactly what they are
find resources to use in searching for on the
their research. The online internet. This page has
encyclopedia is an awesome different strategies for
way for students to begin searching in directories,
analyzing websites or databases or search
articles for credibility engines.

17. Online Collaboration
• Edmodo
I would use Edmodo in my classroom as a forum
for collaboration between my students. They
can work together on research assignment
and work to gauge credibility in websites that
their peers use as sources. I can use Edmodo
as a way to collect assignments from my
students and organize class assignments and
expectations.