This is the first of several “Getting Started posts. This one will help you with Choosing Your Community:
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Greetings all! I had a question about how our INFO 200 Course Learning Outcomes align with the School of Information’s Core Competencies  Former 200 students created this Infographic for INFO 200 for us. It’s super cool. Be sure to start saving all of your assignments for  the e-portfolio option. My advice: save everything! 🙂
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Greetings all – After your Introductory post, your next five blog entries are an important part of the Blog Reports assignment. As noted in our getting started posts, you will use your blog on the Community Site blogging platform in this class. The posts will include substantial content, citations, and reflective thinking. These blog posts should […]
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Greetings all! I finished reading and commenting on all of your Blog Report #1 entries. I was happy to read about all of the different information communities that are part of your lives. I went to the grade book and gave everyone that submitted their URLs 2 points. Please note: the rest of the Blog […]
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Hey all – Everyone has an @username at this site and on the Community Site. Mine in both places is @Michael. You can use that to reply to me. If I used your @username in my comments on your Blog Report #1, you probably received a notification from the system. Some blog themes make the […]
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Valuable Blog Resource Hello everyone, A big shout-out to former INFO 298 student David Vargas for creating an incredibly useful guide on how to maximize the potential of your blog for our course. This resource is now available to all sections of INFO 200 this semester, and I highly recommend downloading it via the […]
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You will need Chapters 4, 5, 6, 16, 19, & 20 from Information Services Today. Textbook Access Information: Throughout this course you will need to access and read a variety of chapters from the textbook Information Services Today: an Introduction (2022), which is edited by Dr. Sandra Hirsh. Through the King Library’s website, you can […]
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Hello everyone – I wanted to send out a reminder of key items related to graduate work and this course from the Getting Started Module. We are heading into an important phase of the class staring with a deep dive into research and information behavior theory. Course Requirements The School requires that students earn a […]
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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 […]