Creative Commons

"Creative Commons helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world. We unlock the full potential of the internet to drive a new era of development, growth and productivity. " -Creativecommons.org

Creative Commons EDU-Certificate

Recommended for Educators and Liberians

"The CC Educator Certificate aims to ensure all educators have the grounding and digital literacy associated with successfully using Creative Commons for open educational resources, open practices, open policy, and open pedagogy. Learning activities generate practical tools and resources to be applied and used in work right away." -CreativeCommons.org

Open Education - Open education is a philosophy about the way people should produce, share, and build on knowledge. Below are some links to information and resources.

OpenSource.com

Text Sets - "A text set is a collection of texts (e.g., novels, passages, articles, film, art, websites, etc.) organized around an anchor text. Each set has a purpose based on the way the texts are related. When texts are organized to “talk to one another,” students are able to build knowledge about the way complex texts represent certain topics, comment on life, and provide insight into different cultures, perspectives, or time periods."

EDSITEment - Tools for analyzing primary sources and close reading.

The Inquiry Process - A gathering of resources and lesson plans covering Research, Information gathering, Information sources, Information, sharing, Search strategies, Evaluating Information, and Citing sources.

The Five Step Search Strategy - Berkeley Library

Google Search - Google Search Help document

Google News Archive- searchable archive of newspapers from around the world, dating all the way back to the 1700s.

Google Explore and Citing - Learning to use Explore to Cite in Google Docs

Google Images; Citing - Ways to cite images.

Google Advanced Search - List of Common Google Search Operators

Google Scholar - Google Scholar Search Tips - Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Citation Management Tools - A comparison table of the top search and citation tools put together by the University of Toronto

Survey Tools

Qualtrics Research

SurveyMonkey