It’s Christmas Eve, and Santa Claus is on his annual trip delivering presents to all the good little boys and girls around the world. This year, not just one but two major organizations are offering ways to track Jolly St.
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This video walks through the basics of evaluating a website to find quality information. It encourages viewers to evaluate websites in the way an editor would review an article. By thinking like an editor, we can be our own gatekeeper and learn to find the most trustworthy information. It teaches:
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Lee Lever of Common Craft asks the viewer of this video to become an editor and evaluate the quality of the websites they visit. Change editor to curator and you have the basics of Content Curation. These skills are the foundation for working with Scoop.it or any other curation platform. Endorse quality resources. Be the gatekeeper for your topics. 
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April 11, 10:32 AM
As always Common Craft provides clever concept clarification videos that explain tech tools and processes. In thie case the basics of web evaluation are not just a video away. Check it out! Delete the scoop?
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Educators are well aware of the shortcomings of relying on crowd-sourced content for authoritative information, yet the fact that Wikipedia continues to reign supreme as a top match in Turnitin suggests that students don't see things the same way. In short, what constitutes "research" for students today has come to mean "Googling."
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February 28, 12:19 PM
This page includes an archive to a webcast on this topic. 
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February 28, 10:32 PM
Gaining access to turnitin's resources is a little clunky but worth it. The webinar is 30 minutes long and worth the time. The related SEER resource is also good. Delete the scoop?
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Used to be only Norad tracked Santa, now we can do it ourselves. I'm conjuring images of kids sitting on their dad's lap watching the arc of Santa, Sleigh and reindeer on the iPad. HO! HO! HO!