Greetings all – I grabbed these Action Items from a post from a few days ago. All of these things can also apply to your blogging: Some Action Items going forward: The rest of the assignments will require a more formal approach and require synthesis of the research-based, scholarly LIS literature you’ve located and a […]
Month: March 2024
Reflection Blogging Grading & More
Some thoughts for you all related to a question I had about our Blog Report assignment as you work on Blog Report #4 and beyond. Start getting very serious about weaving your peer reviewed sources and studies you are finding into your posts. That will set you up to have draft chunks of your paper. […]
Don’t Miss Hartel’s Information Science Videos
These are now available as Course Helper!
Useful Article on Serious Leisure
Hey all – If you are looking at serious leisure please take a look: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0943-7444-2003-3-4-228.pdf The Serious Leisure Frontier in Library and Information Science: Hobby Domains Jenna Hartel I am loving this table:
For all of the Fan Communities out there…
Hey all – if you are looking at fan communities: https://blogs.city.ac.uk/ludiprice/model-of-fan-information-behaviour/ Publications list: https://blogs.city.ac.uk/ludiprice/publications/ (if you cite, I would suggest citing the published studies)
Extensions for Upcoming Blog Report & ISS
Greetings all! I have heard from more than a few of you that the extensions have been helpful for focusing on our 200 assignments. I am also aware that there is a lot going on for each of us and in the world too! Here is my thought: we have some time built into the […]
Class Chat via Zoom: Assignment Q & A at NOON PT Sunday!
Greetings all – We will have an assignment Q & A session on Zoom on Sunday. Students are encouraged to attend if schedules allow. The session will be recorded. March 10: INFO 200 Assignment Q & A Session at 12pm PT. We will go over you might have about the Sources Survey and LRM. Join from […]
Welcome to Module 6: Research-based Information Resources
This week, we explore the many types of research-based information sources and their various uses.
Useful Video on Serious Leisure
From LIS professor Dr. Jenna Hartel – The second episode of the *Information and Leisure* video series focuses entirely on the concept of leisure and a theoretical framework of leisure known as the Serious Leisure Perspective, or SLP. After defining leisure, the SLP’s key concepts are introduced and illustrated, namely: casual leisure, serious leisure, devotee […]
Thoughts on Future Assignments
Greetings all! I just finished grading all the submitted LIS Theory/Model assignments. Overall, everyone did very well. You’ll find your scores in Canvas. I was super impressed with the summaries that offered strong connections to information science theory and models and other resources from our course. Some papers included robust references list that lets me […]