In this course, I want to facilitate sharing information that is reliable. To do that, we will support the information we share in our posts with a credible source. I want to avoid people saying, I heard on TV… or, I saw in a magazine… I want you to provide the source of that information, and ensure that it is a credible source. There is a lot of bad information out there!

For example, if you say, “sticking to an exercise routine has been challenging for me. I had much more success when I kept track of what I did by writing it down in my calendar every day. ”Say this, in addition, for full points:“This webpage from the National Institute of Health (http://www.xxx.com ) discusses research that found that ‘Self-monitoring or tracking seems to be critical for almost every sort of behavior change.’” When looking for online sources to support your discussion forum posts, I want you to use credible sources.

Evaluating Health WebSites

You can find instructions for evaluating web information and several links to credible health information below at this link: http://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html#5 (Links to an external site.)