Bibliography Creators:
Plagiarism Checkers
Student Loan Finders- Compare and contrast student loans
Places to take real college courses for free:
Provides free textbooks to college students
Cheap Textbooks
Digital Citizenship
Citationmachine.net-for perfect Works Cited/Bibliography pages
Turnitin.com-Checks for Plagiarism
Purdue OWL-Writing Resources, Style Guides and Instructional Material
SAT Prep-Practice for the SAT
Animoto - is a digital tool that allows you to create high-quality videos in a short time and from any mobile device, inspiring students and helping improve academic lessons.
Fact Checking
Politifact "Truth-O-Meter"- PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics.
FactCheck.org- University of Pennsylvania, nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. Monitoring factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
FlackCheck- FlackCheck.org is the political literacy companion site to the award-winning FactCheck.org. The site provides resources designed to help viewers recognize flaws in arguments in general and political ads in particular.
Snopes- The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Duke Reporters' Lab: Fact Checking- Includes a database of global fact-checking sites, which can be viewed as a map or as a list; also includes how they identify fact-checkers.
International Fact-Checking Network fact-checkers’ code of principles
WordHippo- Finds words you can’t think of but can describe
Scholar.google.com- Gives your reliable information on a topic
Looking for a file source for your research?
Type the subject then “Filetype” then whatever type of source you’re looking for.
Doc: document
Xls: Excel Spreadsheet
PDF: Portable Document Format
PPT: PowerPoint
EXAMPLE: Civil War Filetype: PDF
Looking for reliable websites
Type the subject then “Site” then whatever type of website you are looking for
.com – commercial business (the most common TLD)
.org – organizations (typically, nonprofit)
.gov – government agencies
.edu – educational institutions
.net – network organizations
.mil – military
.bus business
EXAMPLE: Astrology site: edu