Start your Monday out right, with a recap of useful bits from the IT world:

• Project Information Literacy published a report detailing How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age. Two interesting findings: students are often more skeptical of websites than we presume and they ask peers and instructors for help determining the usefulness of a site; second, with regard to research projects, students say simply “getting started” is the hardest part. What do you do to help students get started on research projects? Or to help them evaluate sites?
• Frequent EduBlogger Richard Byrne puts all of his most-recommended resources in one place.
• Have you heard the buzz about DropBox? This fantastic tool lets you keep files in the “cloud” and sync them across computers, access them online and even from your smartphone. But now they’ve upped the ante with a new feature “DropItToMe” that will allow students to drop their files directly into your DropBox without having acces to any other files.
• The National Humanities Center has a very useful Toolbox Library filled with collections of primary source documents with topic questions and lesson ideas for teaching US History.
• The Blue Skunk Blog reminds us of the 7 Qualities of Highly Effective Technology Trainers. Do you have tips for teaching colleagues or students how to engage new technology?