The BBC Archive

The BBC Archive is chock full of useful resources.   The archive collections include Art and Artists, Books and Writers, Politics and Government (UK and non-UK), Science and Technology, and more.  The collections are comprised of BBC broadcasts from both TV and radio and go as far back as 40 years.

In addition to fun things like Dr. Who and James Bond, the collections also have information that would be an excellent addition to a research project on the Holocaust (first-hand accounts of the Nazi regime ), ideas for building physics or mechanical projects (The Great Egg Race), and author interviews that would add another dimension to a literature study (Virginia Woolf, JRR Tolkien,  Ian McEwan, and more).

BibMe : Bibliography Maker

BibMe is an online citation creator that is really easy to use.  I usually hesitate to recommend citation generators as I would rather teach students how to do it themselves.  Students should also know how to recognize a correct citation so that if the citation creator makes an error, the student can spot and correct it.  OK, that's it for this particular soap box speech.

One of the great things about BibMe is that the bibliography you create is download-able and save-able to your free BibMe account.  The downloaded version automatically credits BibMe with creating the citation, but students can eliminate the citation from their Works Cited pages. 

Students can also edit their citations in the BibMe program before downloading the Works Cited page.  If BibMe creates an incorrect citation, students should have no excuse for the mistake on their Works Cited page. MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian styles are all available for citation creation in BibMe.