Crash Course
Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3
Look to your left. Look to your right. Look at this video. Today, John Green is going to teach you how to read laterally, using multiple tabs in your browser to look stuff up and fact check as you read. Real-time fact-checking an help...
Crash Course
Using Wikipedia: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #5
Let's talk about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is often maligned by teachers and twitter trolls alike as an unreliable source. And yes, it does sometimes have major errors and omissions, but Wikipedia is also the Internet's largest general...
Curated Video
Mastering Citations: A Guide to Efficiently Citing Sources in Google Docs
This instructional video provides a detailed guide on how to effectively use Google Docs to create and add citations automatically using the Citations tool and the Explorer tool. The video addresses the challenges of referencing and...
Curated Video
Supporting an Analysis
This video is about how to support an analysis with quotes, facts, and examples as evidence.
Curated Video
Authentic Writing
“Authentic Writing” discusses plagiarism and explains how to use direct quotations and indirect citations in MLA format.
Curated Video
Bibliography
Bibliography teaches how to create a bibliography page that includes citations for sources used to research an assigned topic using correct format, capitalization, and punctuation.
Curated Video
Direct and Indirect Quotes
A video that reviews the act of quoting information from outside sources of authority. Citations can be placed within an essay through direct quotations or through paraphrases.Knowing how to cite information correctly helps writers to...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Economists Incentivize Conformity Over Quality
Economists tend to incentivize conformity over quality, but could pressure from outside groups change that? INET sits down with Carlo D’Ippoliti, Associate Professor of Economics at Sapienza University of Rome, to talk about pluralism in...
Catalyst University
Easy Citations (Part 3): From Wikipedia to Profound, Full Citation
NOTE: Requires Mendeley Desktop, a free download. This quick tutorial from Catalyst University shows you how to use Mendeley Desktop (a citation manager) to quickly generate full, complete citations for lab reports very efficiently.
Catalyst University
Easy Citations (Part 1): Downloading and Using Mendeley
This quick tutorial from Catalyst University shows you how to download Mendeley, a fantastic citation manager, and a simple example how to use it to generate full citations for lab reports very quickly.
Bill Carmody
The Process of Writing a Long Report
This video provides a step-by-step guide on the process of writing a long report. It covers topics such as choosing a relevant topic, conducting research, writing a thesis statement, preparing an outline, drafting, revising and editing,...
Curated Video
Collecting and Citing Evidence for Your Argumentative Essay
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of gathering proper evidence to support an argumentative essay. They emphasize the need to avoid repetition and provide a step-by-step guide on how to collect supporting evidence, such...
Curated Video
Does N.L.’s Education Accord have fake, AI sources? Some educators say yes
New ReviewThe Education Accord will “modernize and transform” the education system in Newfoundland and Labrador, according to a statement from the provincial government. But the report contains references to academic articles that don’t exist....
Curated Video
New courses help students get back on track after pandemic learning
A new breed of transition courses is helping students who fell behind due to pandemic learning disruptions get the basic skills they need to thrive in a postsecondary setting.
Curated Video
No Canadian soldiers awarded Victoria Cross in Afghanistan
Canada exited the war in Afghanistan without awarding the Victoria Cross, the nation's highest military honour, to a single soldier. A new campaign aims to change that.
Curated Video
Goodall joins forces with Sinclair
Primatologist Jane Goodall speaks about Senator Murray Sinclair's bill that would ban keeping elephants and great apes in captivity in Canada.
Curated Video
First health report by RFK jr stirs row over incorrect citations
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission's recent report has ignited a heated debate over children's health in the US. The report highlights alarming trends in children's health, including rising chronic illnesses, poor diet,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US General James Van Fleet at Turkish military ceremony celebrating the country's national holiday in Korea
US Gen. James Van Fleet, Commander of UN Forces, and other US and Turkish officers standing on speaker's platform, one officer speaking / closer view of officer speaking / Van Fleet and other officers standing on platform listening / two...
Curated Video
Newsy Investigates: OSHA Violations At Candle Factory Hit By Tornado
OSHA records show Mayfield Consumer Products was cited for 12 violations in 2019, two related to emergency preparedness.
Curated Video
Babe Ruth, Horse Racing
Fans Honour Babe Ruth
New York - The one and only Babe Ruth, the "Sultan of Swat", appears in uniform during a colourful Silver Anniversary celebration at Yankee Stadium. The "Bambino" and other greats of the 1923 team take part in the...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Trial without Simone Gbagbo is not credible: lawyer
The trial of Ivory Coast's former first lady Simone Gbagbo for crimes against humanity can proceed without her a judge rules following her failure to appear in court
GCFGlobal.org
Avoiding Plagiarism
How can learners avoid plagiarism in their academic work? Pupils learn some helpful strategies with the first of four videos from the Use Information Correctly series. Scholars discover the importance of citing sources and learn how to...
Vimeo
How to Paraphrase
It can be easy to plagiarize if you don't know how to paraphrase properly. Avoid the common pitfall with an informative video about paraphrasing, that includes strategies for rephrasing text as well as times when it's appropriate to...