LIB100

The following are the answers to the first two quizes:

Quiz 1

1. Date, source, geography and group of people are all ways of broadening or narrowing topic.

2. The length of your paper or project can impact your topic and how many sources you need in several ways.  Broader topics will need more space to discuss them, so they will work better with longer papers (15-20 pages).  A very specific topic will work better with a shorter paper (5-7 pages).  Similarly, a shorter paper will require fewer sources, while a longer paper will require more research.

Quiz 2

1. Anorexia OR Bulimia will give you more results than Anorexia AND Bulimia.  The OR requires that all results include EITHER of the terms, while the AND requires that all results include BOTH terms.

2. Folksonomies are classification systems created by users of the information rather than experts in the field.

3. Truncation is using the root of a word along with either a “?” or “*” to get as many variations of the word as possible in your search results.  This allows you to get plurals or different endings without doing multiple searches.

Today’s presentation:

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Take a look at this video and comment on some aspect of it. If you are not sure where to start, think about what statistic was most surprising or interesting, or what impact these changes might have on your future career or educational plans.

Here is the powerpoint presentation from today:

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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!

Here are the correct answers for the last two quizzes:

Quiz 9:

• Results higher up in a Google search are linked to by more websites.
• All of the above (or ownership, authority, accuracy of content, purpose, and objectivity) should be criteria used to evaluate websites for use in research.
• Anyone can post information online, where traditional media is filtered by editors or purchasers.

Quiz 10:

• Web 2.0 is different from the earlier web because it is much easier for everyone to publish information online. This can be useful for very specific types of research such as information that is social (what is appropriate to wear when traveling, etc.) or extremely current (what are the user reviews of the new gaming system that just released last night).
• RSS is a technology that pushes new information to you. If you know you want to keep up with a specific website you can subscribe to it and get news delivered to you. This is particularly useful if you follow many sites because it will save you a lot of time.

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.