In this blog report, you will explore the professional literature and resources included in the Teaching and Learning module and write a post related to how libraries and information centers create learning and programming opportunities for your chosen community.
Getting Started
- Review the readings from Module 11
- Explore professional literature on the learning opportunities and programming libraries and information centers offer for your information community. Consider:
- What innovative services are in place to support your community’s curiosity?
- Are there gaps in services to your group? You may also suggest some ideas for learning programming to address those gaps.
- Cite course resources and your own independent research.
- Take a look at the report #5 samples in the Assignment Examples.
- Consider if you want to use links, images, or other multimedia in your blog report. If you will be using them, start to gather those resources.
- Write this blog report to fit into your research paper’s Discussion section, perhaps under a heading such as “Learning Programming for Citizen Scientists”. This is not self-plagiarism!
Assignment Requirements
- You must include both professional literature from your own research and material in the Teaching and Learning Module.
- The blog must be shared on your iSchool WordPress blog site.
- Blog reports must be at least 500 words in length, including references. While there is no requirement for maximum word count, a word count of 1000 or less is encouraged.
- Any references should be in APA 7th edition format.
- Hanging indents are difficult to add in WordPress, so are not required for blogs.
Grading Criteria
| Criteria | Points |
| Required Components | 1 |
| Mechanics | 1 |
| Comprehension and Analysis | 1 |
| Connections to Course Content and Information Science | 1 |
| Total | 4 |
- Required components evaluates whether the blog report has a solid organizational foundation and includes all required elements stated in the assignment. You should present professional literature and material from the Teaching and Learning module related to how libraries and information centers create learning and programming and applies these to their information community. Your report presents examples of learning or programming services that support the information community. Identification of gaps in learning programming is developed.
- Mechanics assesses the quality of writing and technical aspects of the blog report. Your report’s delivery is polished, clean, and shows evidence of significant effort. The report is engaging and follows a logical thought process. If images, links, or other media are included, they are used thoughtfully. The report is grammatically correct, lacking spelling, syntax, or punctuation errors; APA 7 referencing is technically correct in the narrative and the reference list.
- Comprehension and analysis assesses your broad understanding of the ideas and ability to integrate the ideas into your work. You should demonstrate a broad understanding of the professional literature and the Teaching and Learning module as they apply to learning and programming that exists or does not exist (gaps in coverage) as they apply to the information community; these ideas are integrated into the blog report.
- Connections to course content and information science evaluates how you use INFO 200 materials and LIS theories as a framework for your ideas. You should incorporate materials from the Teaching and Learning module and related literature into the blog post showing how these relate to learning and programming that exist or do not exist (gaps in coverage) as they apply to the information community.
Before Submitting Your Assignment
- Spell and grammar check your report.
- Take a break from blogging and come back later to manually proofread your report. Since your reports will be shared on the open web, they should be well-organized, evidence-based, and professionally written.
- Check that any links or multimedia in your blog are working correctly.
Submitting Your Assignment
Publish your blog report on your WordPress blog. Submit the URL for blog report 5 to Canvas.
If you need technical support for your blog, please review the WordPress/Blogging Technical Support links provided in Blog Report 1.