Instruction Ideas and Activities: Videos

GOOD FOR: First Years in understanding how information is created

GOOD WHEN: students are about to start a literature search

GOOD FOR: classes where they need to evaluate sources beyond just choosing a scholarly sources

GOOD FOR: classes where they need to evaluate web sources

GOOD FOR: research methods classes or senior seminars - in-depth description

GOOD WHEN: students say that there are no sources out there on their exact topic

GOOD FOR: students who have gotten past the point of collecting sources and are about to begin the writing phase of a research paper

GOOD WHEN: you’re introducing a research project and talking about topic selection - encourages them to consider the topic as flexible and something that isn’t set in stone

GOOD FOR: intro courses where you’re introducing a research project and expecting them to use peer-review sources
BONUS - it talks about problems in the system - including bias (and specifically brings up racial bias)

GOOD FOR: introductory classes having to read scholarly articles for the first time - particularly in the sciences

GOOD FOR: intro courses where you’re introducing a research project and expecting them to use peer-review sources

GOOD FOR: explaining the difference between the two types of sources (and the grey areas)

GOOD FOR: explaining the difference between the two types of sources (and the grey areas)

GOOD FOR: explaining characteristics of newspapers, encyclopedias, journals, monographs, and anthologies