Student Resources

 

Is the source a credible one?

Finding Credible Sources:
http://www.tammypayton.net/courses/search/credible2.shtml

 

Online Source Hunt Tutorial:
http://www.vtstutorials.ac.uk/detective/

 

Get it straight… You can’t always believe what you hear

FactCheck.Org:
http://www.factcheck.org/

 

Truth (or not) Behind Urban Legends:
http://www.snopes.com/

 

Writing Resources

E-mail Etiquette:
http://www.wetfeet.com/advice-tools/resume-cover-letter/e-etiquette-writing-tactful-emails

 

Resumes, Portfolios, and other Employment Documents:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/638/01/

 

How to Write a College Level Paper:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/what.shtml#college

 

Critical Thinking Resources

 Critical Thinking Webliographer:
http://webliographer.com/QEPPiedmont/view.php3

 

Library Critical Thinking Resources:
http://www.piedmont.edu/qep/PDFs/library_resources.pdf

 

Teacher Resources

Resources for language development:
http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/topics/

 

Motivate your Students:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

 

Rethink Teaching Mathematics:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover.html

 

What we THINK we Know:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/jonathan_drori_on_what_we_think_we_know.html

 

Tip of the tongue research:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91142967

 

Arts and Sciences Resources

Ethics in Chemistry:
http://www.radiolab.org/2012/jan/09/how-do-you-solve-problem-fritz-haber/

 

Cognition/ Language Development:
http://blog.onbeing.org/post/12444168167/deb-roys-ted-talk-the-blossoming-of-a-speech

 

Case Studies in Science:
http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/

 

Debate:
http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/