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We will be using this blog space as a location for you to respond to various articles and videos related to our course.

We enjoyed your presentations and reading your group projects.  Your grades have been added to Blackboard and should be up on WIN.

If your group lost any points on the Notebook, you will see comments from us explaining why.  Some individuals also lost extra points for not making changes we recommended earlier.

Thanks everyone for a great semester.  We really enjoyed having you in our class.  If you have any questions please let us know!  We’d also be happy to help you with research projects in the future, so be sure to get in touch with us if you have any questions on future projects.

Have a great holiday!

Hi everyone,

We have updated grades for everyone in the gradebook, so you should have grades for everything you’ve done up through now.  The total number of points that have been assigned so far are out of 55 (not counting extra credit).  Remember, the total number of points for the semester is out of 100, so if you are at 50 points, you know that your highest possible grade at this point is 95.

Be sure to make the corrections we recommended to your work before contributing it to your group notebook!  If you have any questions at all, please be sure to ask.  Kaeley and my contact information is in the sidebar to the right.

If you want to meet with us as a group or individually before your presentation or before your notebook is due, please let us know.  We’re here to help and want everyone to do as well as you possibly can.

Don’t forget… the Wikipedia extra credit is due on Monday during class.

Thanks!

Group Presentation:

• Groups 1, 2, and 3 will present on Monday, Dec. 3. Groups 4 and 5 will present on Wednesday, Dec. 5.
• Ten minutes for each group.
• Each group member must participate and speak at some point during the presentation.
• You can use PowerPoint or other visual aids if they are appropriate for your topic.
• Please incorporate these elements into your presentation. You can have each group member do one part, or divide it another way.
  • Give a summary of your topic and what you found in your research
  • How was using library resources (reference, catalog, databases) v. internet resources? Were they different/similar, easier/harder to use when you were looking for information on your topic for this class?
  • Has your idea of what information is and how it is impacted by technology changed because of the information you found for this project? If so, how?

Final Project:

• The Final Project must be completed in the Google Notebook by the beginning of class, Wednesday, Dec. 5.
• Please take a look at the Final Project example. There is a link to it on the sidebar of the blog in the group projects section. Please make sure that you remove any extra “dialog” from your Notebook before the deadline.
• You will need to copy each of your assignments into the Notebook. Each resource entry from your assignments must be signed. There are also several additional sections that will need to be completed by the group.
• Remember to make any changes to your assignments that we have required in the comments. Correct your spelling and punctuation!
• Because of the formatting of the GoogleDocs, many of you have not had to double space or indent your citations. Make sure that when you copy them to the Notebook, you double space and indent the second and following lines of your citations.

As requested, here are the links to the sites we discussed today in class.

• RSS (defined), Google RSS Reader- good for having content pushed to you
• Creative Commons- good for finding media to use in your presentations
• Flickr- good for finding photos to use in your presentations
• Archive.org- good for viewing websites as they looked in the past
• Del.icio.us bookmarks- good for tracking current sites on various topics
• Zotero- a Firefox extension designed to make research and bibliographies easier

Let us know if you have any questions!

In the spirit of the email we sent out last week about assignment 1, here’s the information for assignment 2:

Assignments due before class on Wednesday:

• Comment on the blog: Great job on this last week! I’ll post something by midnight tonight for next week. It will be most useful if you respond by Monday, though you can wait until Wednesday if you’d like.
• Individual assignment: In Google Docs. Each person in the group will find a reference resource and enter it into their Google Docs page. ONE resource from each group should be a print item from the library. The others can either be in print or online through the databases page. You will need to include a citation in MLA format using your Cite Right book. You will also need to include the following information in your paragraph discussion of the resource. Your purpose should be to convince us that this is the best resource for your topic:
  * Author and Title of the specific article you will use (if applicable)
  * Item Title (if you can make that a link to the catalog record of online resource, do that) and author/editor of the work
  * Your search strategy- where did you go to find the item, what search terms did you use, limits, etc…
  * How you located the resource
  * Why you chose that resource over others on the same topic- what makes it good for researching your questions-what parts are relevant-are there any special features that make it good
  * Your signature at the end of the entry
  * A properly formatted MLA citation
  Essentially, we’re looking for one reference source per person, a citation, and a paragraph or two explaining your choice. All of this should be on your personal Google Doc.
• Group assignment: In Google Notebook. As a group, you will need to get together and write a 2-3 paragraph introduction to your topic based on your Reference resources. You will need to give some background information on your topic and explain the scope of your research- what you will include and what you will not be including. This should be entered into a new section in your Google Notebook.

Remember, please contact Kaeley or me if you have questions. I’ll be here till 9pm tonight. We’re happy to answer any topic, research, or technical questions you might have.

We will be using this blog space as a location for you to respond to various articles and videos related to our course.