Written by Hey all – Here are some action items to guide you through the next two weeks.
Everyone also remember to breathe, take care of you and yours. Contact me anytime with questions or concerns.
Research Paper:
- All assignments in INFO 200 help build your understanding and knowledge of the information needs and information-seeking behaviors of the information community you are researching. You can feel free to remix and adapt previous assignments and blog posts and incorporate these into your research paper. This is not self-plagiarism!
- Fine tune your community description to fit the required introduction for the paper. A successful description for the assignments addresses who the community is, what information needs and behaviors they have, and should cite some of our foundational literature as well as your own pertinent, peer-reviewed resources. You might even include some stats pulled from research-based sources as well such as Pew, etc.
- Be clear with your writing. Use simple, straightforward sentences. Avoid sweeping generalizations without supporting evidence.
- Work on the blog posts explored below as sections of your paper’s discussion. Research your community’s use of emerging technology (or technology in general). How do they use it as part of their information behaviors? (After the paper, you’ll be creating a media artifact to share some of these findings too!)
- Pay close attention to minimum and maximum word counts.
- Follow the formatting requirements closely.
- Proof everything. Ask a classmate to proof your work and proof theirs.
Blog Reports:
Here are some thoughts on the rest of our course blogging:
- Blog Post #6: Report on the issues your community may face on an international scale.
Helper: Blog Post #6: From your exploration of the literature and the resources included in the Global Librarianship Module, craft a blog post related to the issues your information community may face on an international scale. Consider, for example, how similar info communities to yours seek and create information in the context of their culture. Try to discover whether your international counterparts bring social, gender, environmental and economic justice to light. See if you can share your discoveries and observations in hopes that your experience can prepare and even educate fellow information professionals.
ACTION ITEMS:
- This can be written by exploring the professional literature (Library Journal, American Libraries, etc) or other resources related to your community.
- Search for articles related to how libraries are offering learning programs for your community and how your community or a related community is being served on the global stage.
- You can actually start these searches now and keep what you find for when you complete the upcoming modules and start writing.
- Write both posts to easily fit into your research paper’s Discussion section, perhaps under headings such as “Learning Programming for Citizen Scientists” and “Library Services Around the World for Citizen Scientists.” This is not self-plagiarism!
Next:
- Blog Post #7: Report on your community’s use of emerging technologies
Helper: Create a media-based artifact (infographic, video, audio, etc) from your research and explorations of your community’s use of emerging technologies. How do they use technology to advance the community or share information? Be as creative as you’d like! Use these “How To” pages at the Community Site:
- How do I add media to pages or blog posts?
- How do I create a media-based artifact?
- Be sure to cite your sources within the artifact or as part of your blog post.
Some popular tools students have used, as compiled by include:
- Jing: https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
- Prezi: https://prezi.com/
- Piktochart: https://piktochart.com/
- Canva: https://www.canva.com/
- Venngage: https://venngage.com/
- Animoto: https://animoto.com/
- Visme: https://www.visme.co
Also, checkout this helpful site: https://marketingtechblog.com/infographic-layouts/
Please comment below with how you are doing, your own coursework strategies and any action items you have for our class, etc
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Hi Michael! I was looking through my activity feeds on my account for my blog and for this community site, and I’ve noticed that some of my comments on my classmate’s blogs are missing from my activity feed, and that some of the blog posts I’ve commented on have different titles than the ones I actually commented on. It’s bizarre. I was trying to figure out how many more blogs I need to comment on and stumbled across this. Will we only be submitting one link for our participation assignment, or can we include other links to posts we’ve commented on that the feeds may have missed?
@mheryford hello. I will do a site wide message for the community site asking everyone to approve comments. Also that weirdness where it looks like a comment is on the wrong blog. Post is most probably a database glitch because we have thousands and thousands of blogs on the site. Do not worry that much about these issues because I understand that it sometimes difficult for every comment to show up. It is absolutely fine to submit URLs as well.
Thank you, this is super helpful!
Thank you for this post – it’s helpful to have all this consolidated information for upcoming assignments. Looking forward to reading the rest of everyone’s blogs this semester!
Thank you for the helpful post and resources!
@elenaloper @majerlesimpler @cchenet Yay! So glad this is helpful.
Thanks for this breakdown, Michael! It’s excited to see the list shortening, but also bittersweet. I’ve enjoyed this course and its structure very much. Good luck in your last few assignments everyone! Looking forward to reading about your research!
For anyone who is still working on Blog#5 , I came across this report that might help provide some ideas.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2013/01/29/innovative-library-services-in-the-wild/
@lolorena Thanks for your thoughts! I will do a post about sharing abstracts so the class can see what the papers look like.
@alishacosta Nice! Thanks for sharing. Pew is so good.
Thank you, @michael, this post is helpful with keeping me focused over the next week. My current plan is to work on the submission for Blog No. 7 when I need creative and visual breaks from the paper.
Earlier in the semester, I attended one of the SJSU Writing Center’s graduate writing workshops and learned about the Pomodoro Technique as a productivity tool, so here’s a link to a brief overview of the technique for anyone who is interested: https://thrive.arizona.edu/news/use-procrastination-your-advantage-pomodoro-technique
@cecinsd Thanks for sharing this! The Writing Center is so GOOD!
Thank you so much for this!
Quick last minute question about citations: I wanted to cite your Module 12 lecture for Blog Post 6.
Would this be an acceptable format? Thanks!
Stephens, M. (2019). Module 13: Global Information Communities [Panopto]. https://sjsu-ischool.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7720af2f-abc6-42e9-b131-aaf701153d1c
@elenaloper That works just fine!