Slides of class discussions and lectures are posted here (pdf).
9/5 – The Landscape of Digital Media
9/19 – Web 2.0 and Participatory Media
9/24 – Access
10/01 – Privacy
10/03 – Plagiarism
10/10 – Copyright and Fair Use
10/15 – Metadata
10/17 – How a Search Engine Works
10/22 – The research process: needs assessment, preliminary strategies, topic development
10/24 – The research process: refining a topic, creating search strategies
11/5 – Advanced internet searching
11/7 – Library catalogs
11/12 – Library databases
11/14 – How and why to evaluate information
11/19 Writing an academic research paper
11/21 Rationale for documentation and citation
11/26 Documentation: standards, methods and styles for citing text and non-text media
11/28 Documentation: practical applications
12/03 – Documentation: standards, methods and styles for practices and processes
