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How can I tell if a website is credible?
This webpage suggests six factors to consider when assessing website credibility, and adds, "If you are unsure whether the site you’re using is credible, verify the information you find there with another source you know to be reliable" (retrieved 2016.12.22).
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Helpful Hints to Help You Evaluate the Credibility of Web Resources
"These guidelines are to help you become familiar with various types of Web resources and the reliability of the information" you find among them (¶2, retrieved 2016.12.22).
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Free Puzzlemaker @ Discovery Education
"Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists."
Sunday, December 25, 2016
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Sunday, December 18, 2016
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Nocking The Arrow: Taking Steps Towards Global Competency
Schuetz, Robert. (2016.12.10). Taking Steps Towards Global Competency [weblog post]. Retrieved from http://www.rtschuetz.net/2016/12/taking-steps-towards-global-competency.html
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APA Style Blog: Writing Website In-Text Citations and References
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Falcon Scientific Editing | Publishing, Writing, and Grammar Resources for Researchers
A weblog highlighting guides and other resources for academic writing and publication.
Saturday, December 17, 2016
"Get tough, or die!"
In high school, I competed in gymnastics. The coach of a cross-town rival team and I became friends after I had entered college, and beg[u]n judging local gymnastics meets.
In the off-season, the cross-town high school coach and I also became rivals in canoe races. In one race, actually a three-legged team-relay event, in which a grade school friend of mine had run, I'd cycled, and the two of us paddled together, my old friend and I finished fourth.
Though our running and cycling times weren't stellar, we'd been white-water canoeing together for years (since high school). So we passed a number of other teams on the river, including slow rafters, and were about to overtake another when the river narrowed.
As we passed just astern of a raft running the rapids ahead of us, an inner-tube it was towing on a tail line dragged under our canoe, and dumped us immediately. We lost time swimming the canoe to shore, emptying the water from it, and resuming the race.
At the end of the third leg of the race, my old friend and I finished fourth. My rival and his team had finished first or second. In the parking lot, at the end of the race, was where I got the advice.
My rival and his partner had loaded their low-cut racing canoe on his car rack. It was easy to distinguish from ours–a high-gunneled recreational model. The advice was on a bumper sticker on his car.
As the race committee began awarding prizes, it became clear that the third-place team hadn't waited around for awards. So my partner and I received the third prize. Though I don't remember what that prize was, I do remember the message on my rival's rear bumper.
It read, "Get tough, or die!"
Sunday, December 11, 2016
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Evidence-Based Principles for Online Faculty Development | EDUCAUSE
"After research and discussion, the Professional and Organizational Development Network developed eight principles to guide institutions as they explore and select online educational development resources for their campus communities" (Key Takeaways, point 3).
Sunday, December 04, 2016
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Strategies to Help Students ‘Go Deep’ When Reading Digitally | MindShift | KQED News
"[C]asual digital reading on the internet has instilled bad habits in many students, making it difficult for them to engage deeply with digital text in the same way they do when reading materials printed on paper" (Schwarz, 2016.10.16, ¶1).
