Reflection 10: Technology

I think the strategies in BBR Chapter 10 were useful as a macro-structure for web-based searches, but I feel like some of the other strategies that are nested in these structures bear some investigation as well. How do students decide that a website is credible?  The -AND (Analyze and Note Details) and -SD- (Slow Down) steps from the SAND and ISSDaT strategies require students to evaluate the credibility of web sources, but do't mention more than making sure to stay away from .com sites and sites clearly trying to sell you something.  I can think of plenty of examples of .org websites that may be of dubious credibility -- I'm sure the KKK and crazy Doomsday/Rapture Preppers have websites ending in things other than .com, but they're hardly credible sources (except as primary sources to examine how bleeding insane they are).  I'm at a one-to-one school and the students almost exclusively use the web for resources when doing projects, but few of them know how to differentiate an academically credible source (e.g. a scholarly one) from one that appeals to sensationalism, trends, and popular culture -- beyond "Don't use Wikipedia."  I think a more useful strategy to analyze would be how to determine credibility, and how credibility requirements change depending on the project.