This is the first of several “Getting Started posts. This one will help you with Choosing Your Community:
Month: January 2024
Making The Most of Your Blog in INFO 200
Greetings all – Shout out to former INFO 298 student David Vargas for his work putting together this guide to making the most of your blog for our course. This PDF is being shared with all the sections of INFO 200 this semester. Please download via the link below. NOTE: This student created guide was made […]
Blog Report #1 – Introducing Yourself and an Information Community
Hey all – Here is the prompt for the first Blog Report: Blog Post #1: Introduce yourself by describing an information community in which you belong… The community description can be as creative as you want it to be. It can be written as a straight-forward textual description — or it can even be presented as […]
Welcome to Module 1: Information Communities
Greetings all! Module 1 begins today. This module explores the nature of information, definitions of community, and how communities form around information and knowledge sharing/creation.
Class Social Time February 3rd
Please join if you can. All sessions will be recorded. February 3: Our first Class Social Hour will be at 12pm PT. I’ll be on hand to chat or answer any questions you have. No formal agenda, just a chance to check in. Please feel free to drop in and say hi. I’ll be having […]
Welcome to Module 0: Getting Started with INFO 200
Module 0 includes helpful information to set you on the right path for success in INFO 200. Start here – Getting Started in INFO 200 Module Videos and More and at the bottom of that page you will see a link to the next item. Please work through this module to prepare for Module 1 on […]
Welcome to INFO 200 Information Communities
Start here! Greetings all! Welcome to INFO 200 Information Communities Section 02! This course focuses outward on the people librarians and information professionals serve, those who are creating, using and sharing information. Framing the course as outward-facing reflects exactly how our graduates and information professionals should view the world. Instead of putting the library in the center, […]
Action Items for Starting INFO 200
Greetings all! Here are some Action Items to get us started with INFO 200. If you haven’t already create your account on our section site (that’s here!): Start here: https://infocom.hyperlib.sjsu.edu/register/ Fill in your name, username, e-mail, and create a strong password. You are free to use a pseudonym, but please tell me who you are! Note: your […]
IMPORTANT ACTION ITEM: Creating an OPML File for Our Class Blogs
Greetings to everyone in my INFO 200 Section – We’re going to create an OPML* file for our course blogs so you can add them easily to Feedly or some other aggregator/reader to monitor our course. As noted in the getting started posts, you will also be using your blog created for INFO 203 for reflection blogging […]