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Notes from today, and reading and blogging assignments for Wednesday, September 11

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Today we reviewed Badke, chapters 1 & 8. We discussed various information & communications technology innovations from the timeline of information history. We also discussed the information cycle through which information is created and distributed, better explained in this presentation, which I encourage you to view.

For Wednesday, please read the introduction of Meikle & Young, Media Convergence: Networked Digital Media in Everyday Life, distributed in class and available on reserve: HM742 .M45 2012. Also read Craig Mod, Post-artifact Books and Publishing. Please view the following 2 videos: Common Craft, Blogs in Plain English and Wikis in Plain English. Your blogging assignment is one reading response blog post; please refer to the blogging guidelines or ask me if you have questions about blogging.

~Prof. Leonard

Becoming a Gatekeeper

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In chapter 1 of Research Strategies: Finding Your Way through the Information Fog, author William Badke introduces us to the information fog which begins with oral tradition and develops straight through to the World Wide Web. Aside from the information and how we access it changing, one of the things that remains a constant is the idea of gatekeeping. Gatekeeping is basically the process through which information is filtered for all forms of communication. For example, Badke wrote of gatekeeping in determining what was published in the early ages of the printing press and even gatekeeping on a daily basis when we do our internet searches. Although gatekeeping is used as a quality check it can be seen as very subjective in nature.

In continuing with the gatekeeping idea, chapter 8 teaches us how to read for research. This not only means getting the research material but it involves reading it, evaluating it for substance and actually engaging with it. Badke helps this process by laying out several note taking tips that assist in researching and avoiding plagiarism.

Notes from today, and reading and homework for Monday, September 9

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Our next class meeting will take place in A543, our assigned classroom. We meet next on Monday, September 9. As you know, the college is closed on Monday, 9/2. Although classes are cancelled Wednesday 9/4 through Saturday 9/8, the college and library are open those days.

Your reading assignment for Monday, September 9 is to read the Preface, chapter 1 and chapter 8 in Badke, Research Strategies. Also, sign up for the OpenLab and join the class if you were not able to during class today. Invitations will go out to those of you who have not yet joined the class. Remember, you need to use your City Tech email address to sign up for the OpenLab. If you continue to get error messages when clicking on the email link to confirm your OpenLab account, contact the OpenLab team for support.

Your blogging assignment is to write and post one reading response blog of at least 100 words. It should be posted to this site by 10 a.m. on Monday, 9/9. In your reading response blog post, you should identify a theme or themes from the readings, analyze the readings with respect to the themes and topics of the course, and ask any questions that the reading raises. Please refer to the blogging guidelines or contact me if you have any issues with or questions about blogging.

Looking forward to a productive semester!

~Prof. Leonard