LIB100

Here is the ruberic we used when grading your assignments:

worth .25 points

• Not writing in complete sentences
• More than one error in a citation (including not double spacing or not indenting)
• Annotations that were too short to convey information
• Missing some evaluative information of the source
• Missing electronic information in a citation
• Using a book review instead of a scholarly article
• Using an article that is too short to be scholarly
• Citing with APA format rather than MLA
• Not writing answers in paragraph form
• Using an older work with no justification for its age

worth .5 points

• No evaluation of a source at all

worth 1 point

• The source was not relevant to the assignment

For 2 extra credit points please watch the following video and comment on either (1) how this impacts your view of copyright or (2) if you feel you are part of the remix culture and what that means to you. This is due next Wednesday.

Please read Becoming Net Savvy and comment below. This is due Wednesday.

For this extra credit assignment, find a page in Wikipedia to edit. It should be pretty intuitive, but if you need help, we can give you some pointers.  You’ll need to add at least one sentence to get the extra credit points. If you do this, you’ll get one extra credit point on your final grade. If you make an addition that needs citation, and add the citation to the appropriate place on the page, you’ll get a total of two extra credit points on your final grade.

To get the extra credit points, print off the page before you make the edit and afterwards, and highlight or circle the area you’ve changed. Bring them to class on Monday.

If you have questions about how to make edits to Wikipedia, please see Kaeley or Lauren.

We talked about web 2.0 in class on Wednesday. When I mentioned RSS and wikis, it appeared many people hadn’t heard of them before. Pick one and watch the corresponding video. Then comment on if you think the technology would be useful for you, or not, and why.

Wikis

RSS

• Assignment #3: Books and Scholarly Journal Articles is due on Wednesday, Feb. 20. Please make sure that you look at the assignment instructions and include the MLA rule number with your citation.
• There will NOT be a blog post due on Wednesday, Feb. 20. We will post a new discussion after class that day, due on Wednesday, Feb. 27.

This video illustrates the changing nature of information and the changing ways of finding information. In our last class we discussed finding books in the library and in our next class we will discuss finding electronic and paper articles. As we’ve progressed through the semester, what barriers have you seen to finding information in the library? What could we do better to make it easier to find information? What would your ideal library look like?

If you feel that you need a little extra work learning how to use LC Call Numbers before Wednesday, try out this game!

Here is today’s presentation:

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Please watch the following: Wikiality and Wikilobbying.

These fun videos brings up several thought provoking points. Please comment. If you aren’t sure where to begin, reflect on one of the following questions:

• Does this impact your view of unrestricted online resources? How?
• What, if anything, in this video reinforces the importance of citations?
• Does the ease of updating Wikipedia compensate for the possible inaccuracies?