Information Literacy

In class on Monday, April 21st, we talked about privacy on the web and implications of “putting yourself out there.”

We would like you to read the following article and respond to the question it poses: Is This Man Cheating on His Wife?

In Wednesday’s class, we introduced scholarly resources and have briefly examined the traditional scholarly publication model. For this post, we’d like you to take a look at Open Access and discuss its implications and what it might mean for the future of academic scholarship.

During class this week we discussed intellectual property, copyright, fair use, and plagiarism, leading up to citations.

I mentioned this article in class on Monday, but I would like for you all to read it and respond with your thoughts/opinions.

“Hey, Isn’t That…”

This past week we talked in depth about evaluating resources and how to determine whether a resource was scholarly. Here are three websites:

http://www.malepregnancy.com/

http://www.martinlutherking.org/

http://digitalfreedom.org/

We would like to for you to pick one of these websites and evaluate it (discussing the website in general and using the different aspects of evaluating a resource that we talked about in class this week) and determine whether the site is scholarly.

If you have any questions, let us know!

On Monday we introduced the class by discussing what information is. Please watch the following video entitled Information R/evolution and comment by clicking on the ‘Comment’ link in the lower right hand corner of this post.

Welcome to LIB100F Spring 2008. Here, we’ll be posting an information literacy item of interest and a few questions to prompt discussion. The idea is simply to get you thinking (and writing) about information literacy.

To join the discussion, click on the ‘Comments’ link at the end of the post.

Participation in the discussions will count for 10% of your grade.