Refreshment and writing time. Please come prepared to comment on last months presentation by Leon Litwack

Lynn Jones, UC Berkeley Library
"Psyching Out Sources: Historical Thinking Skills and Information Skepticism "
Powerpoint Presentation  - html version

Lynn Jones is a member of the teaching staff at UC Berkeley Library where she works with UC Berkeley's California Heritage Project . She is also the author of the website The United Farm Workers' Union:
The 1965 Grape Boycott: A Case Study in Strategy.

Next Steps & Lesson Study Group Meetings

• OUSD Library Services Page - links to all reference databases
  http://tlc.ousd.k12.ca.us/tlc/resources/libraryresources.html
  
  
• Who killed William Robinson
  http://web.uvic.ca/history-robinson/indexnn.html
  
  
• Investigations: What exactly do historians do?
  http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/faculty/kelly/wciv/investigations.htm
  
  
• New Deal Network
  http://newdeal.feri.org/
  eg. Images of the Depression Era
  
  
• I C You See: T is for Thinking
  http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html
  
  
• Internet Detective
  http://sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html
  
  
• American Memory Learning Page
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html
  e.g. Media Analysis Tools
  
  
• History Matters > Making Sense of Evidence
  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/
  
  
• Internet Public Library
  http://www.ipl.org/
  
  
• Librarians Index to the Internet
  http://www.lii.org
  
  
• Whois.net
  http://www.whois.net/
  
  
• Media Awareness
  http://www.media-awareness.ca/
  eng/webaware/tipsheets/qktips.htm
  
  
• Evaluating Web Pages: Online Tutorial
  Joe Barker, UC Berkeley Library
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/
  Internet/EvalQuestions.html
  
  
• Ideas for Library / Information Assignments
  http://www.mun.ca/library/research_help/
  qeii/assignment_ideas.html