It's getting tougher than ever to determine if a website is valid or not.  It's very easy to make a beautiful looking website - anyone can do it!
How do the experts figure out what websites to use?  They use SIDEWAYS RESEARCH (sometimes also called LATERAL READING).  Before you spend too much time on a site, open a new tab (the sideways part) and google around to see what you can learn about the site.  What can you dig up about a website by leaving it and doing some investigating?
​John Green explains this very well in this episode of Crash Course.  Take a look!

​OverDrive Summer Read is an annual program for schools in the US and Canada designed to encourage your students to keep reading all year long. This year’s 10-week program, running June 6 – August 15, is our longest ever. We’re also offering more titles than ever before. Thirty free and simultaneous use juvenile and young adult ebooks (and select audiobook and Read-Along options) will be available to students in participating schools. These titles will be prominently displayed in Sora so it’s easy for students to find their next book and chill out and read.

Click the image above to see the free book titles!
Go to the ebooks tab under "BOOKS" above for more instructions for using OverDrive with the Sora app.  

There is a new citation tool that is great for making one or two quick citations.  If you don't need to save citations in Noodletools or make notecards, try ZoteroBib.  You can even paste a URL into the search box and ZoteroBib will create a citation for you!
(As with all citation generators, there can sometimes be errors.  Make sure you check the citation carefully and compare with the correct format.  More information available on the "Make Citations" page above under the Research tab.)