tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64577276469281720682024-03-14T08:46:06.392+00:00The Inf6350 2012 blogThe blog for the Sheffield iSchool Information Resources and Information Literacy class, 2012Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-81033111198617260622012-12-03T05:41:00.000+00:002012-12-03T05:41:47.938+00:00Thing 18: Teaching information literacyThe session in week 11 (4th November) has a session from three of the librarians at Sheffield University: Lyn Parker, Vicky Grant, and Maria Mawson. They will each talk about <b>teaching information literacy. </b>There is a section on Information Literacy on the Sheffield University website here: <a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/infolit/index">http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/infolit/index</a><b><br /></b><br />
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Note that if this is a major interest for you, then the module <b>Educational Informatics</b> will be very relevant next semester. <br />
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There are a huge number of articles and resources about teaching information literacy, for those that are interested in this topic. A few examples are:<br />
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- This site, which has material from a project about a <span style="font-weight: bold;">"New Curriculum" for Information Literacy</span>: <a href="http://newcurriculum.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://newcurriculum.wordpress.com/</a><br />
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- A "toolkit" developed by the London-based <span style="font-weight: bold;">Clinical Librarians and Information Skills Trainers</span> <a href="http://www.londonlinks.nhs.uk/groups/clinical-librarians-information-skills-trainers-group/trainers-toolkit" target="_blank">http://www.londonlinks.nhs.uk/groups/clinical-librarians-information-skills-trainers-group/trainers-toolkit</a><br />
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- Cardiff University's <span style="font-weight: bold;">Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching</span> <a href="http://www.cf.ac.uk/insrv/educationandtraining/infolit/hilt/index.html">http://www.cf.ac.uk/insrv/educationandtraining/infolit/hilt/index.html</a><br />
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- Wilson, C. et al. (2011) <span style="font-weight: bold;">Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers</span>. Paris: UNESCO. <a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001929/192971e.pdf" target="_blank">http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001929/192971e.pdf</a><br />
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- A number of the presentations in the 2012 <span style="font-weight: bold;">LILAC</span> (information literacy) conference: <a href="http://lilacconference.com/WP/past-conferences/lilac-2012/">http://lilacconference.com/WP/past-conferences/lilac-2012/</a><br />
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- The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online Database</span> <a href="http://www.ala.org/apps/primo/public/search2.cfm">http://www.ala.org/apps/primo/public/search2.cfm</a><br />
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- One of my own articles: Webber, S., Boon, S. and Johnston, B. (2006) British academics from different disciplines: comparing their conceptions of pedagogy for information literacy. In : <span style="font-style: italic;">Actes des 5èmes Rencontres Formist: Lyon: 2005.</span> Lyon: ENSSIB. <a href="http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/webber-formist.pdf">http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/webber-formist.pdf</a>Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-70112797590053375662012-11-20T13:01:00.000+00:002012-11-20T15:09:43.188+00:00Team blog winners! Congrats to Team A!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuhcSxfBPlDR0I7h8BMtc-Vaem4NJSx3TAH4In90Rsq3oB724qICiky6bLkeHrE-3yI6G1m0pva-e4s8LDYtfro6_1PaAYQ_YR8ltGF6COP_s9BmEP4T9P_nMqg07oaAr8t-KQCILI4PU/s1600/120-cell.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/120-cell.gif" height="254" width="254" /></a></div><br />
<b>Congratulations</b> to<b> winner </b>of the "Best Team Blog": <b><a href="http://inf6350theateam.blogspot.com/">Team A (The A team)</a>. </b><br />
<b>Runners up</b> were:<br />
- <b>Team G</b> (<a href="http://the-part-timers.blogspot.com/">The Part Timers</a>)<br />
- <b>Team I</b> (<a href="http://inf6350teami.blogspot.com/">Team I: The I Team</a>)<br />
- <b>Team N</b> (<a href="http://infmanteamn2012.blogspot.com/">Team N’s Blog</a>)<br />
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All of these satisfied our basic criteria (see below) and also provided enjoyable, interesting and thought-provoking reading. The following two blogs are given honourable mention because they were also in contention, but we felt we could not select them because they were not legible enough. For example, Team Q's blog is fun as a design, but some of the colour fonts are difficult to read against the busy background.<br />
- <a href="http://ilteamq.blogspot.com/">Team Q</a><br />
- <a href="http://infolitk.blogspot.com/">Team K</a><br />
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We should also mention that there were <b>lots</b> of interesting posts on blogs of the other teams, but the ones above brought the package together particularly well.<br />
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To remind you, we said we were looking for<br />
"- Extent to which required blog posts are there (we gave a list)<br />
- Visual appearance of the blog (both aesthetic - do we find it attractive - and practical e.g. can we read the text)<br />
- Use of blogger design/layout functions (e.g. links, feeds; including are the 2 required links there (see list 2 below)<br />
- Participation from the team i.e. is there evidence that most of the team have contributed (it is ok if some people have posted more than others, but e.g. it will not be seen as good if just about every post is from one person) <br />
- Nature of the posts (e.g. are they responding to our questions; are they thoughtful; do we find them interesting)"<br />
We also said we were looking for evidence of continued work on the blog. <br />
<i>Image (animated gif) created by Jason Hise, used under Creative Commons.</i><br />
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Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-19379980591388887172012-11-19T23:47:00.000+00:002012-11-19T23:47:06.378+00:00Digital Storytelling open courseFor any of you that want to follow up the creative side of digital engagement, the open course <i>Digital Storytelling</i> sounds very interesting. It's free, online, you join when you want - no accreditation (except for those at the hosting university), but definite opportunities for interaction and skill-building. "In the end, you won’t have credit, but we hope you’ll still have learned something" It's run from the University of Mary Washington. <a href="http://ds106.us/">http://ds106.us/</a>Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-49078776098549586722012-11-13T02:03:00.004+00:002012-11-13T02:03:45.913+00:00Thing 16: Information interview: Information client / information consultant exerciseThis is the exercise you will do after Pam's talk in week 8. <br />
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Every team will be both an information client and an information consultant. Every team will identify an information need; its partner team for this exercise will carry out an information interview to identify the need, and then find some relevant information. The information will be handed over and the teams must give feedback on the performance in identifying, scoping, planning, gathering and presenting the information.<br />
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These are the steps<br />
1) Decide on who will undertake the following roles (everyone has to have a role: if there are 3 people in the group, share the evaluation role between you and allocate the other 3 roles; 2 people should take 2 roles each; if there is just one person then tell Sheila or Pam!)<br />
- - a. Lead "client", who takes the lead in presenting, and answering questions, on the information need.<br />
- - b. Lead interviewer; taking the lead in interviewing the client to identify the information need<br />
- - c. Lead evaluator, who develops criteria to identify which information is most suitable<br />
- - d. Lead presenter, presenting the information to the client team<br />
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2) Each team decides on a question that it wants the other team to answer. It does not have to be to do with your studies, and it must not be something that someone could directly use in coursework (i.e. you mustn't do someone else's coursework!).<br />
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3) Each team interview the other in turn<br />
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4) Whole team seeks information to answer the information need. Be prepared to explain how you found it and why you chose it.<br />
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5) Present the information to your client and explain why you think it answers the information need.<br />
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6) Have a review of each team's performance as an information consultant. In each case firstly the information consultant team should say what they felt went well and what needed improving. Then the client team should add any praise and criticisms they have. <br />
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7) Team blogs. Each team blog a piece of advice on what to do <b>or </b>what not to do when interviewing.Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-3663032957234817102012-11-13T01:57:00.000+00:002012-11-13T01:57:48.521+00:00Thing 17: Evaluation: preparationIndividual assignment: reminder of a task for next week (week 9, 20 November)<br />
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As identified at the start of the semester, you need to bring along an article which is relevant to you negotiated assignment topic. This article must be a research article i.e. it must contain a report of original research (so it should describe the research aims or question, the research methods, and findings and conclusions). You should have read the article beforehand. In class you will be evaluating the article.<br />
Therefore, if you have not already found such an article, you can use the “assignment” time in this session to find one.<br />
You can increase your chances of finding a research article by e.g.<br />
- Searching a source which contains large numbers of them (e.g. <i>Emerald Library; <a href="http://scholar.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a>; LISA</i>)<br />
- Using search features that restrict your search to research articles (e.g. on LISA you can just search for articles in “scholarly journals”; on <i>Emerald </i>you can search for “article type: Research paper” (a pull-down menu on the <a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/search.htm" target="_blank">Advanced Search page</a>)<br />
- Where there is no such feature (e.g. on Google Scholar) adding words like “methodology” and “references” to your search<i>(see example below)</i><br />
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You also may want to look at the optional reading for next week: <br />
Booth, A. and Brice, A., eds. (2004) <i>Evidence-Based Practice for Information Professionals: A Handbook.</i> London: Facet. <br />
Chapter 9, ‘Appraising the evidence’ is available online at<br />
<a href="http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/downloads/file/sample_chapters/481.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/downloads/file/sample_chapters/481.pdf</a>Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-53042056713943197842012-11-13T01:55:00.000+00:002012-11-13T01:56:15.115+00:00Thing 11: Documenting the exhibition<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisgimtmSL_uyCbJM7Ul3Ld7c6PULYoVZzVJXUEbgeKDibmcV58b5J4-Cf40hZ5BZ3S06ZCgjY97nXSUw4yqcsofv9S547Vn2YPOrNhgNmXh9aR04mr5Q8ZADqvc5fdwh03bssz_DKAQvg/s1600/team+g+with+poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisgimtmSL_uyCbJM7Ul3Ld7c6PULYoVZzVJXUEbgeKDibmcV58b5J4-Cf40hZ5BZ3S06ZCgjY97nXSUw4yqcsofv9S547Vn2YPOrNhgNmXh9aR04mr5Q8ZADqvc5fdwh03bssz_DKAQvg/s400/team+g+with+poster.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a><br />
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These are the winners of the most popular poster award: <b>Team G</b>! Thanks to everyone who participated. Other notably popular posters were those of <b>Team O (see below) </b>and<b> Team E</b>; followed by <b>Team A</b> and <b>Team Q</b>.<br />
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Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-90257913827720059152012-11-13T01:13:00.002+00:002012-11-13T01:57:02.073+00:00Thing 4 (again): Advanced Internet SearchingAnother update of <b>Phil Bradley</b>'s slideshare about web search: many slides with useful search tips.<br />
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<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/15135496" width="512" height="421" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"><strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Philbradley/advanced-internet-searching-autumn-2012" title="Advanced Internet searching Autumn 2012" target="_blank">Advanced Internet searching Autumn 2012</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Philbradley" target="_blank">Phil Bradley</a></strong> </div>Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-49810163765612387102012-11-01T06:38:00.003+00:002012-11-01T06:38:54.828+00:00Thing 14: Web 2.0 and wise use of wikipediaIn week 7 there is the seminar discussing an article on Wikipedia. Before that there is a session on Web 2.0 and social media more generally. As a starting point, there are some links etc. to explore on this page: <a href="http://www.netvibes.com/sheilawebber#Web_2.0_in_general" target="_blank">http://www.netvibes.com/sheilawebber#Web_2.0_in_general</a><br />
I haven't finished updating these pages - I should have done before the session on Tuesday! However, the links on this page do all work (at least when I tested them just now) and the material there is still useful.<br />
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Also, here is a useful powerpoint from Karen Blakeman<br />
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<b> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/KarenBlakeman/spring-clean-your-social-media" target="_blank" title="Spring Clean Your Social Media">Spring Clean Your Social Media</a> </b> from <b><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/KarenBlakeman" target="_blank">Karen Blakeman</a></b> </div>
Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-61598249688934410702012-10-25T07:22:00.002+01:002012-11-13T01:57:09.241+00:00Thing 4 (again): Power Searching with GoogleGoogle has run a short MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) a couple of times. It includes short videos and short self-tests, all about searching Google. If you want to improve your Google skills, it is worth a look. The web address is <a href="http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/">http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/</a> and this is the first, introductory, video.<br />
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There are lots of tips, but it is good to complement those materials with extra tips (and a more critical perspective) e.g. from Karen Blakeman:<br />
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Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-42049484996737626812012-10-23T05:30:00.000+01:002012-10-23T05:30:00.440+01:00Thing 10. Legal & ethical use<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvYbAeh6lmde-5YSodcKEG7AWNbdQ1xt9JW7YP0i39I9ycJjB0-dto3qvtaLoGkMVxjRg6Dqosa6Ayj1Y37K-8i5PAZqcLAaglmtmcgw2_cOWMqnl_9xzPro3xlomUkCcqS1Tu0ODmciwL/s1600/cc.logo.large+copy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665931031771889522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvYbAeh6lmde-5YSodcKEG7AWNbdQ1xt9JW7YP0i39I9ycJjB0-dto3qvtaLoGkMVxjRg6Dqosa6Ayj1Y37K-8i5PAZqcLAaglmtmcgw2_cOWMqnl_9xzPro3xlomUkCcqS1Tu0ODmciwL/s320/cc.logo.large+copy.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 76px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a>It is important for people to respect the law concerning intellectual property, particularly if you are librarians or information managers! There is international agreement about copyright and related laws, and the World Intellectual Property Organization <a href="http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en" target="_blank">http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en</a> is the organisation that aims to develop an international system that is fair to both creators and users of intellectual property.<br />
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They define<span style="font-weight: bold;"> intellectual property</span> as:<br />
"creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce." (WIPO, 2012) They identify two types of intellectual property: Industial property (e.g. patents, trademarks) and copyright (e.g. literary and artistic works, which includes digital works). This also includes the rights that performers have in their performances (dance, theatre etc.)<br />
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Some principles are agreed internationally, and there is harmonisation, for example, within countries of the European Union (although even then there are some details of difference between EU countries). Sheffield University Library has a copyright guide <a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/services/copyintro">http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/services/copyintro</a><br />
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The base line is that is generally illegal to copy things unless<br />
- EITHER it specifically allowed by law (e.g. acknowledged quotations of up to a certain length are allowed for academic purposes or in reviews: "acknowledged" means there are quote marks and the source is clearly stated)<br />
- OR the rights owner (author/creator) has said that it can be used. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Creative Commons licenses</span> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">http://creativecommons.org/</a> have made it much easier for an author of a digital work (article, video, photograph etc.) to say how their work can be used. There are a series of licences that you can use, ranging from "anyone can do anything with my work" to (for example) saying that people can use them privately, but must not publish them publically or use them commercially. This is one of the presentations on the CC site on <i>Sharing Creative Works</i>: <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Sharing_Creative_Works">http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Sharing_Creative_Works</a><br />
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"Derivative" works are works that change the original in some way (e.g. if you cropped a picture, or photoshopped it). Some people do not want their work altered, and since it is their intellectual property, they have the right to say you mustn't.<br />
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This is a useful page which has annotated links to sources of legal free images<a href="http://www.pandia.com/sew/4149-10-ways-to-find-free-images.html">: http://www.pandia.com/sew/4149-10-ways-to-find-free-images.html</a>. If you can't find what you want there, then Phil Bradley has a list of search engines that search images and video: <a href="http://www.philb.com/mediaengines.htm" target="_blank">http://www.philb.com/mediaengines.htm</a> (but some of them might consist mainly or entirely of images that you cannot legally reuse).<br />
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<b>Flickr</b><br />
When you search Flickr you can specify you want to be able leagally to reuse the image. Scroll down to the bottom of this advanced search page <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?</a><br />
and you will see that you can "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content". They explain it clearly here: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/">http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/</a><br />
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<b>Google</b><br />
In the <a href="http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search" target="_blank">advanced search option on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Images</span></a> you can specify the usage rights, e.g. only search for images that can be re-used.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">Your task</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> is to make sure that you are not copying text, videos or images illegally, on your blog and on your poster! (or indeed anywhere else) </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">References</span><br />
- World Intellectual Property Organization. (2012) <span style="font-style: italic;">What is intellectual property?</span> Retrieved 21 October 2012 from <a href="http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/" target="_blank">http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/</a><br />
- Creative Commons logo copied with permission; see <a href="http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads</a>Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-40307557197530769732012-10-15T14:52:00.001+01:002012-10-15T14:52:35.616+01:00Thing 8: Communicating using postersThis week you will be starting to create posters which say something about the place of Information Literacy in your future careers. You will be using physical media (e.g. pen and paper) rather than electronic media. You also will not have very much time to produce them. However we have had some interesting posters for this exercise in the last few years.<br />
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There are pictures of all last year's posters on my Flickr account: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23396182@N00/sets/72157627880923331/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/23396182@N00/sets/72157627880923331/</a><br />
and this is a video from last year's event<br />
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Note: you are not being asked to produce a scientific paper, nor an online paper, so you do not have to read through the following advice before creating your poster! However, paper posters can still have an impact, and ones created electronically can be exhibited online and in print. It is useful to learn about techniques to communicate through posters.<br />
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<b>Advice about producing posters:</b><br />
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Links to several useful resources with advice on producing academic posters: <a href="http://tash.group.shef.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=110&Itemid=685">http://tash.group.shef.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=110&Itemid=685</a><br />
University of Minnesota (2007) Creating an effective scientific poster presentation. <a href="http://www.tc.umn.edu/~schne006/tutorials/poster_design/index.htm">http://www.tc.umn.edu/~schne006/tutorials/poster_design/index.htm</a><br />
Glogster enables you to create online posters: <a href="http://www.glogster.com/">http://www.glogster.com/</a><br />
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<b>Some examples of "good" posters of different types:</b><br />
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Posters that won a best-poster competition for doctoral students in the midlands, 2011 (links are on the right of the page): <a href="http://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/336341/The-Midlands-Hub-Regional-Poster-Competition-2011.html">http://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/336341/The-Midlands-Hub-Regional-Poster-Competition-2011.html</a> and there is a Flickr pool of the 2012 event at <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65599022@N07/sets/72157630954745024/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/65599022@N07/sets/72157630954745024/</a><br />
Winners of a similar competition for posters from doctoral students in Yorkshire 2009: <a href="http://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/71651/Yorkshire-and-North-East-Hub-Poster-Competition-Gallery-2009.html">http://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/71651/Yorkshire-and-North-East-Hub-Poster-Competition-Gallery-2009.html</a><br />
Posters about the major oil spill disaster in the USA, 2010: <a href="http://tedxoilspill.com/2010/07/06/poster-competition-winners/">http://tedxoilspill.com/2010/07/06/poster-competition-winners/</a><br />
Library posters created by Phil Bradley, based on old British wartime posters: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/philbradley/sets/72157625923493122/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/philbradley/sets/72157625923493122/</a>Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-15700858584043036752012-10-09T11:33:00.000+01:002012-10-09T11:33:47.986+01:00Thing 7: Your Information Literacy in contextThis is the activity:<br />
1. Create your own map of changes, using the elements in the diagram "The information literate person in a changing information culture and society"<br />
2. Share it with your team: are your maps similar or different? can you help each other identify ways of meeting IL needs?<br />
3. Write a team blog post about a factor/ Information Literacy need that you are willing to share on the blog<br />
4. Individually, note down a plan to address some of your Information Literacy development needs. Please finish this after the class, if you do not complete it in class. We will return to this in week 5.<br />
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<b>Links to articles etc. </b><br />
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- Association of College and Research Libraries. (2012) <i>Information literacy in the disciplines.</i> <a href="http://wikis.ala.org/acrl/index.php/Information_literacy_in_the_disciplines">http://wikis.ala.org/acrl/index.php/Information_literacy_in_the_disciplines</a><br />
- Cheuk, B. (2008) Delivering business value through information literacy in the workplace. Libri, 58(3), 137-143. Retrieved 19 September 2012 from hCheuk, B. (2008) Delivering business value through information literacy in the workplace. Libri, 58(3), 137-143. <a href="http://www.librijournal.org/pdf/2008-3pp137-143.pdf">http://www.librijournal.org/pdf/2008-3pp137-143.pdf</a><br />
- Hoyer, J. (2011) Information is social: information literacy in context, <i>Reference Services Review</i>, 39(1), 10 - 23. <a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1906421" target="_blank">Abstract</a><br />
- Lloyd, A. (2005) Information literacy: different contexts, different concepts, different truths? <i>Journal of Librarianship and Information Science</i>, <i>37 (2</i>), 82-88. <a href="http://lis.sagepub.com/content/37/2/82.short?rss=1&ssource=mfc">Abstract.</a><br />
- Lloyd, A. (2009) Informing practice: information experiences of ambulance officers in training and on-road practice, <i>Journal of Documentation</i>,<i> 65 (3)</i>, 396-419. <a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1789402">Abstract</a><br />
- Lloyd, A (2004) Working (in)formation: conceptualizing information literacy in the workplace. In <i>Proceedings of 3rd International Life Long Learning Conference, 13-16 June,</i> Rockhampton, Central Queensland University Press, pp. 218-224. <a href="http://acquire.cqu.edu.au:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/cqu:1415">http://acquire.cqu.edu.au:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/cqu:1415</a><br />
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Please add any links below or (probably better) feature them in posts on your team blog.<br />
<br />Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-70241798544114370502012-10-09T02:44:00.001+01:002012-10-09T02:44:05.486+01:00Things 4 and 6 "Google" and "Database" secrets (Plan and gather)You already had a session from Alastair in week 2 (on Google etc. searching) and you will have a further session from him this week (Groups 1 and 2) or next week (Groups 3 and 4)<br />
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<b>What you need to do</b><br />
Once you have had the 2nd session from the Alastair (i.e. this week for groups 1 and 2, next week for groups 3 and 4), make an <b>individual</b> post on your <b>team </b>blog, listing one new thing you learnt about Google or database searching.<br />
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A few of you have had a lot of experience in libraries before joining the course: so if you were already a search engine/ database wizard when you came to Sheffield, just say what your best searching tip is!Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-14598935993083465352012-10-09T02:30:00.001+01:002012-10-09T02:31:39.219+01:00Thing 2: Information Literacy: additional materialContinuing and Professional Education and the University Libraries at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst have teamed up to produce this video which outlines the concepts and practices of the Information Literacy Standards as defined by the Association of College and Research Libraries.<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CUnn6-Mw6jQ?rel=0" width="480"></iframe>Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-60912825383399509782012-10-01T16:13:00.004+01:002012-10-01T16:13:39.554+01:00Thing 5: The New Information Universe: PreparationIn week 3, 9th October, you will have a class session on “The Information Universe” with Pam McKinney. This class will focus on Information Resources. Understanding the different types of information resources and their relationships will help you to use information in your assessed coursework.<br />
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<b>The preparation for week 3’s information universe session is as follows:</b><br />
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1.<b> Think about a time when you needed to find information</b> – for yourself or for others (for example, for a course assignment or a library enquiry). <b>Make notes on the kinds of information that you used in that particular search.</b><br />
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2. Review your notes and<b> identify the different types of reference resources or sources of information found.</b> (By types of resources, we mean categories of material – such as “blog”, “directory”, “report” or “textbook” – not specific titles.)<br />
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This is not a competition, so you can discuss it among yourselves if you wish, but you must produce your own list of types of information resources. You can use your own words to describe the types of resource; there is not one particular list of types we want you to use.<br />
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3. Please <b>post your list as an individual entry on your team blog</b>, by the end of Monday, 8th October. As you are doing this outside class time, you may prefer for each person to post separately. However, each person should be <b>posting to the team blog.</b><br />
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We shall be looking at examples from different blogs in the class.<br />
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Ask Sheila Webber for help, if you have problems with your blog. If you have questions about the task, put them below, as comments.<br />
<b>Also Sheila will be in the Regent Court Lab RC205 4.15-5pm on Monday 8th October to help anyone who has trouble in making their blog post!</b> What she cannot do, if it hasn't already happened, is invite you into your team's blog, so ask her about that <b>before </b>Monday.<br />
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Here are a couple of examples from last year's exercise. Your blog post does not have to be as long as these, but it gives you an idea of what we have in mind:<br />
- From Hanan: <a href="http://w-teaminf6350.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/new-information-universe-preparation.html" target="_blank">http://w-teaminf6350.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/new-information-universe-preparation.html</a> who was in last year's <a href="http://w-teaminf6350.blogspot.co.uk/">Team W</a><br />
- From Jen Fox <a href="http://i23things.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/thing-4-preparation-jen-fox.html" target="_blank">http://i23things.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/thing-4-preparation-jen-fox.html</a> who was in last year's <a href="http://i23things.blogspot.com/">Team I</a>Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-24451493834501535502012-09-25T18:45:00.000+01:002012-09-25T18:45:14.498+01:00Thing 3: AbstractingIn <span style="font-weight: bold;">week 2, 2nd October, </span>you will have a workshop on abstracting. An abstract is<br />
"A concise and accurate representation of the contents of a document."<br />
There are different kinds of abstract and you will learn about them in your workshop.<br />
Being able to summarise articles is an important academic skill, and you will have to write abstracts of your own work for assignments in the iSchool.<br />
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Preparation is as follows: read this article before week 2, October 2nd<br />
Erdelez, S. (1999) "Information encountering: it's more than just bumping into information." <i>Bulletin of the American Association for Information Science</i>, 25(3), 25-29. Retrieved 12 September 2012 from <a href="http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Feb-99/erdelez.html" target="_blank">http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Feb-99/erdelez.html</a><br />
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Make notes on the following points, if you can find the answers in the article:<br />
- What is the aim of the article?<br />
- What is the aim of Erdelez's research, and/or her research questions?<br />
- Why did she think this was worth investigating?<br />
- What methods did she use in her research? (data collection and data analysis)?<br />
- When and where did she do the research?<br />
- Who were the research population? (the participants in her research)<br />
- What were the main findings from her research?<br />
- What does Erdelez think is new or important about her research findings?<br />
- What does she think are the implications of her research?<br />
- What are her conclusions?<br />
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Bring a copy of the article and your notes to the workshop session with you, on 2nd October. Do not forget them! You will be using those notes to write an abstract of the document and will need to refer to the full article.<br />
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This is Dr Erdelez' home page: <a href="http://education.missouri.edu/faculty/SISLT/Erdelez_Sanda.php">http://education.missouri.edu/faculty/SISLT/Erdelez_Sanda.php</a><br />
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If you have any questions about exercise, put them as comments in this post.Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-17235104715267688072012-09-25T12:11:00.000+01:002012-09-25T12:11:19.042+01:00Sharing Things 1 & 2Do this after you have created your blog, and posted about the 7 Pillars.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Present your blog to your partner team.</span><br />
<ol><li>Show the features of your blog and explain your choices</li>
<li>After you have presented your blogs to each other, each take a few minutes to look at your partner team’s blog and then present feedback to the partner team about their blog:<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">a. What is the aspect of the blog that you like most?</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">b. Give one suggestion that you think would improve their blog.</span></li>
<li>After this you may want to make changes to your blog (though you do not have to)</li>
</ol>Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-45605601944029996172012-09-25T12:10:00.001+01:002012-09-25T12:10:44.068+01:00Thing 2: Information Literacy<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmYw_clVCVzulss0KEB8ARnDrW3gFqTZ0OuiIvzO98tu1fTHnPmSqpUQJn0vQJl8sABD8zdbuA0Vt48bf5XKQclf7gqdnvMWSVYC2JXZSYxsIf2lWD7zG6aPBc7TM9V8MIlXAq7JsOcw1Y/s1600/7+pillar+doughnut+model.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656857298613013410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmYw_clVCVzulss0KEB8ARnDrW3gFqTZ0OuiIvzO98tu1fTHnPmSqpUQJn0vQJl8sABD8zdbuA0Vt48bf5XKQclf7gqdnvMWSVYC2JXZSYxsIf2lWD7zG6aPBc7TM9V8MIlXAq7JsOcw1Y/s320/7+pillar+doughnut+model.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 315px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">SCONUL 7 Pillars model of Information Literacy </span>gives you a framework for understanding areas of information handling that are important for academic study. The 7 Pillars model was first published in 1999, and it was revised in 2011. We will be using therevised version.<br />
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The SCONUL 7 Pillars model was developed by a group of British university librarians: SCONUL is the Society of College, National and University Libraries.<br />
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The document describing the pillars can be found here:<a href="http://www.sconul.ac.uk/groups/information_literacy/publications/coremodel.pdf" target="_blank"> http://www.sconul.ac.uk/groups/information_literacy/publications/coremodel.pdf</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Post about the 7 Pillars and your team</b></span><br />
The purposes of this exercise are to get you familiar with the 7 Pillars, and to start thinking about your own information literacy, and also to get to know each other further as a team.<br />
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<li>Think individually 1) what is your strongest pillar? 2) What is your weakest pillar? 3) Can you think of a time when you were particularly information literate? </li>
<li>As a team, share your strongest/weakest pillars.</li>
<li>Write a team blog post on your blog. Discuss what you think are the team’s strongest Pillars and why (you don't have to mention your weakest pillars!), and give at least one example of being information literate.</li>
<li>Add labels to your blog post and publish it</li>
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Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-28019430538907374992012-09-25T07:30:00.000+01:002012-09-25T11:15:52.245+01:00Thing 1: Blogging: What to do today1. One member of each team should set up a blog using their Sheffield University identity (logging into MUSE, clicking <b>Google Apps</b>, then selecting <b>More</b>, then clicking on <b>Blogger</b>, then creating a blog). <br />
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2. Firstly, <b>invite in all the other member of the team</b>, using their Sheffield University email address. This is on tab<b> Settings</b>, <b>Basic</b>, <b>Permissions</b>. <br />
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If there is someone who doesn’t have a Sheffield University email address, then use another Google-identity email for now. When they respond, upgrade them to <b>admin</b> status so they can change features of the blog. <br />
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3. Secondly,<b> email Sheila </b>(s.webber@sheffield.ac.uk) or just tell Sheila, what the web address and name of your blog is, so she can link to it from this main blog. <br />
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4. <b>Customise your team blog’s appearance </b>(<b>Template and Layout</b>) <br />
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<li>Change the template first (<b>Template </b>tab) </li>
<li>Change the background picture</li>
<li>Try different typefaces and colours for the blog title, text etc.</li>
<li>In <b>Layout </b>arrange and add widgets</li>
- - You must add a links gadget and include a link to this main 23 Things blog, <a href="http://inf6350-2012.blogspot.co.uk/">http://inf6350-2012.blogspot.co.uk/</a> and to the link of your partner team </ul>
<ul>- - If you have time add some more widgets e.g. a feed from another blog, a poll, features that allow people to subscribe to or follow your blog.
<li>If you have yet more time, add a page (by selecting <b>Pages</b>, <b>New Page</b>) saying a bit more about your team</li>
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5. <b>Post to your blog.</b> <br />
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<li>For your first group post, introduce yourselves</li>
<li>For your second group post, find another blog you like, and write a couple of sentences about it, with a link</li>
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6. <b>Label your posts</b>, so that later on you can find all the posts on the same topic or the same “Thing”. You describe the subject of the post with words and phrases. Click on <b>Labels </b>(right of screen) and click <b>done </b>when you have finished.Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-54577521519738311242012-09-23T23:48:00.001+01:002012-09-24T03:42:29.334+01:00Thing 1: Blogging: what and why<span style="font-weight: bold;">Weblogs</span>, or <span style="font-weight: bold;">blogs</span>, have some key characteristics:<br />
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<li>Blogs have posts which may contain text, links, pictures or embedded media. This (what you are reading) is a blog post.</li>
<li>The posts are published one at a time, over a period of time. </li>
<li>The blog entries are arranged in reverse chronological oder (most recent first)</li>
<li>Blogs are often written by one person, but there are also collaborative blogs</li>
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If you are unfamiliar with blogs, you may want to watch this video: <a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/video/blogs" target="_blank">http://www.commoncraft.com/video/blogs</a><br />
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There are various kinds of blog, for example:<br />
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<li>Personal diaries</li>
<li>Information or knowledge blogs (e.g. <a href="http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog">http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog</a>, <a href="http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/">http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/</a>)</li>
<li>Corporate blogs (e.g. <a href="http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/">http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/</a>)</li>
<li>Opinion or issue-based blogs </li>
<li>Educational blogs (e.g. the ones for this class) </li>
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Here are some articles, and one book, that explain why and how blogging is useful for business and in libraries:<br />
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<li>Crosby, C. (2010) <i>Effective blogging for libraries</i>. London, England: Facet.<br />
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<li>Li, C. and Stromberg, C. (2007) <i>The ROI of blogging.</i> Retrieved 20 September 2012 from <a href="http://www.ieecho.com/pdfs/ROI-of-Blogging.pdf">http://www.ieecho.com/pdfs/ROI-of-Blogging.pdf</a> (A Forrester report on the Return on Investment of corporate blogging)<br />
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<li>Page, M. (2010, April 19). Why blog? [Web log post]. Retrieved 20 September 2012 from <a href="http://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-platforms/business-blogging/why-blog/">http://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-platforms/business-blogging/why-blog/</a> (Short article from a corporate trainer)<br />
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<li>Potter, N. (2010) <i>Everything you've ever wanted to know about library blogs and blogging!</i> Retrieved 20 September 2012 from <a href="http://thewikiman.org/blog/?p=783">http://thewikiman.org/blog/?p=783</a> (Includes “thewikiman’s” seminar materials)<br />
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<li>Yardi, S. Golder, S. and Brzozowski, M. (2009). Blogging at work and the corporate attention economy. <i>CHI '09 Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems ACM. </i>Retrieved 20 September from <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1519016">http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1519016</a></li>
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Blogging can also be a <b>subject for your research.</b> A number of Masters students in the Sheffield University iSchool have written Masters dissertations which include investigations of blogging e.g. <br />
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<li>Wang, J. (2011) <i>Use of blogging, social networking sites and microblogging for knowledge sharing, focusing on Information Management students in group work.</i> (Masters thesis, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom). Retrieved 20 September 2012 from <a href="http://dagda.shef.ac.uk/dispub/dissertations/2010-11/External/JWang_100220696.pdf" target="_blank">http://dagda.shef.ac.uk/dispub/dissertations/2010-11/External/JWang_100220696.pdf</a><br />
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<li>Bullingham, L. (2010) <i>What would Goffman think about furries?: Persona adoption and identity masking in blogs and second life</i>. (Masters thesis, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom). Retrieved 20 September 2012 from <a href="http://dagda.shef.ac.uk/dispub/dissertations/2009-10/External/LBullingham_Bullingham_090125096.pdf" target="_blank">http://dagda.shef.ac.uk/dispub/dissertations/2009-10/External/LBullingham_Bullingham_090125096.pdf</a> <br />
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<li>Evans, I (2008) <i>An evaluation of the user experiences of web 2.0 tools and technologies amongst NHS staff. </i> (Masters thesis, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom). Retrieved 20 September 2012 from <a href="http://dagda.shef.ac.uk/dispub/dissertations/2007-08/External/Evans_Ingrid_MScHI.pdf" target="_blank">http://dagda.shef.ac.uk/dispub/dissertations/2007-08/External/Evans_Ingrid_MScHI.pdf</a> <br />
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<b>Please do add comments if you have examples of useful blogs, or want to say why you blog.</b>Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457727646928172068.post-4737072740784123622012-09-23T20:51:00.001+01:002012-09-23T20:51:17.073+01:00Inf6350 Information Resources and Information LiteracyThis blog is part of the <b>Inf6350: Information Resources and Information Literacy module</b>; Inf6350 for short. On the module outline we say that the module aims to enable students to: <br />
- understand from both theoretical and practical perspectives the notions of information literacy and information behaviour; <br />
- understand the nature and function of different types and forms of information resources; <br />
- develop their own information literacy and understanding of its application to their future lives; and <br />
- develop specialised skills in searching for, evaluating and packaging information by carrying out an indepth search and synthesising and presenting the results. <br />
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The full module outline is in <b>MOLE2</b>Sheila Webberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06443224062722725139noreply@blogger.com0