This document outlines a two-day program focused on source evaluation and effective research methods through the Alabama Virtual Library. Day 1 involves interactive activities like the CRAAP test and Twitter verification, while Day 2 focuses on building research questions and exploring database searches. The session aims to enhance participants' ability to analyze and verify information for academic and professional contexts.

1. Source Evaluation and the
Alabama Virtual Library

2. 2 Day Outline (Day 1)
Start with a small search activity
How many Smith
counties are there
in the USA?

3. 2 Day Outline (Day 1)
Introduction of purpose/new
expectations/CRAAP Test (30
minutes/interactive)

4. 2 Day Outline (Day 1)
Twitter verification activities

5. 2 Day Outline (Day 1)
Analyzing news for personal, professional,
academic life
Applying CRAAP Test

6. 2 Day Outline (Day 1)
Quality evaluation

7. 2 Day Outline (Day 2)
Review/Quick
Verification Activity

8. 2 Day Outline (Day 2)
Building a research question

9. 2 Day Outline (Day 2)
Using a research question activity

10. 2 Day Outline (Day 2)
Questions/Discussion

11. It’s not about the database

12. Source Evaluation

13. Current?
Analysis of current song
Current is based on the assignment

14. Relevant
Again, based on the assignment
Doing a paper about basketball…..

15. Authority

16. Accuracy
Where does it come from/can you verify?

17. Purpose

18. Some examples we’re using for trial verification

19. Some examples we’re using for trial verification

20. Some examples we’re using for trial verification

21. In verification and in searching, we ask a question

22. In verification and in searching, we ask a question
How has the iPhone impacted education in the USA?

23. In verification and in searching, we ask a question
iPhone education United States
smart phone
smart device
learning
teaching

24. Then, we search
Where?

25. and verify

26. and verify

27. and verify

28. and search
What are we searching?
iPhone education United States
smart phone
smart device
learning
teaching

29. and search (General OneFile, via the AVL)

30. and search (General OneFile, via the AVL)

31. and evaluate

32. and search (ERIC, AVL)

33. and evaluate

34. Databases
http://www.avl.lib.al.us/about/databases.php

35. Questions?
Leigh Thompson
dlthompson@una.edu
Derek Malone
dmalone3@una.edu