Popular Pages
- North Technical High School
- Library Resources
Media Literacy
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- Factitious - a game to test your sense of real versus fake news stories
- News Literacy Project - "tools, tips and resources to learn how to tell fact from fiction"
- NewseumED - activities, artifacts, and lessons to teach media literacy (requires sign up for some resources)
- Red Feed Blue Feed - a Wall Street Journal split screen demonstration of ideological feeds in Facebook
Fact Checking
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- Politifact - a site that rates the accuracy/validity of statements made by elected officials and political pundits
- FactCheck - a site aiming to reduce the deception and confusion within politics
- OpenSecrets - a site that documents the flow of money in American politics
- Snopes - a site that provides fact checking from politics to pop culture
Databases
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- ProCon.org - an excellent source for pros and cons about controversial issues
- EBSCOhost - a link to EBSCO and Explora databases for research
- Digital Commons Network - scholarly article database compiled by university librarians
- DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) - provides full text of scholarly articles
- Google Scholar - Google's search engine specifically for scholarly articles
- Google News - Google's search that returns results from online news sources
Video Libraries
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- Frontline - VIDEO series that provides insight into some of our nation's and world's most complex problems
- American Experience - VIDEO series that delves deep into American stories; people, places, periods, and events
- NOVA - VIDEO series that explores science related topics; astronomy, physics, biology, anthropology, etc.
- NY Times Documentaries - documentary shorts created by the NY Times covering a wide range of topics