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Update to the Annotated Bibliography and Research Paper Outline assignments

Posted on October 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

I decided to adjust the point value of 2 of your written assignments that lead to the research paper. The annotated bibliography, due November 7, is now worth 7 points. The research paper outline, due November 9, is now worth 3 points. Guidelines for both assignments will be posted under Assignments and distributed in class tomorrow. ~Prof. L.

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Notes from today, and reading & blogging assignment for Wednesday 10/19

Posted on October 17, 2011 | Leave a comment

On Wednesday, October 19 we’ll be discussing the research process: needs assessment, preliminary strategies, and topic development. This will be a good way to prepare for the research topic proposal, due next Wednesday, October 26.

Please read Badke chapter 2, “Taking Charge,” and comment on at least one blog post.

Slides from today are available here.

~Prof. Leonard

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Notes from today, and readings & blogging for Monday 10/17

Posted on October 12, 2011 | 2 comments

On Monday we’ll be discussing the mechanics of searching, including what a database is and how search engines work. Please read the following:

Please write one reading response post and add one comment to another’s post.

Slides from today are available here.

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New link to the Harrod story on Flickr and tagging

Posted on October 6, 2011 | Leave a comment

I updated the link to the Harrod article about Flickr and tagging in my last post, so it should work from off-campus. If you are still not able to get into the full-text of the article try this.
Enjoy the long weekend! As always, I’m looking forward to reading more of your posts and comments.
~Prof. L

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Notes from today, and reading/blogging assignments for Wednesday, October 12

Posted on October 5, 2011 | 2 comments

Thanks for a robust and animated discussion about information ethics today.
Copyright and fair use is in the news today: a copyright case involving a university’s right to stream videos on its website was recently thrown out of court in California; read more here. I encourage you all to finish watching the videos we started to view in class and explore Creative Commons and the Digital Copyright slider. Links to the videos are in the slides.

For Wednesday, October 12, please read the following chapter from Badke and two articles:

Badke, chapter 4 (there is still time to obtain your own copy; if you do not yet have a copy of the required textbook for this class and cannot find it in a convenient bookstore, you can download the e-book for less than $10 here, or use the library’s copy on reserve; the call number is Z710 .B23 2008.)

Dye, J. (2006). Folksonomy: A game of high-tech (and high-stakes) tag. EContent, 29(3), 38-43.

Harrod, H. (2009, March 28). It’s the playground of narcissistic teenagers and amateur photographers, but 3 billion images (and counting) on flickr could be the greatest social document of the century. The Sunday Telegraph, pp.22.

Your blogging assignment is one reading response blog post and one comment on a classmate’s blog post.

Enjoy the long weekend! ~Prof. Leonard

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Notes from today, and reading/viewing/blogging for Wednesday, October 5

Posted on October 3, 2011 | Leave a comment

I hope our privacy discussion got you thinking about your relationship to all of the information “out there” that is about you, and what rights you have to controlling that personal or private information. I found an interesting New York Times article about privacy on college campuses in the wake of the 2008 Virginia Tech shooting: “After Campus Shootings, U.S. to Ease Privacy Rules.”

On Wednesday, we’ll be discussing ethics in information and media, including copyright and fair use, open access, and plagiarism. For Wednesday, please read the following 2 articles:

Isserman, “Plagiarism: a lie of the mind.” Chronicle of Higher Education, 49(34), B12.

Center for Social Media. 2008. The code of best practices in fair use for media literacy education. “Code” and “Principles” sections only.

and watch these videos:

Lawrence L. 2007. “The Law is Strangling Creativity”

Faden, E. 2007. “A Fair(y) Use Tale.”

Your blogging homework is one reading response blog post; one comment on another’s post. Please make the blog post a substantial reflection on the readings and viewing; the comment should be shorter, but try to make it relevant and pithy. Not simply “I agree with your point!”

Slides from today are available here.

~Prof. Leonard

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Your reading & blogging assignment for Monday, October 3

Posted on September 26, 2011 | Leave a comment

Next Monday we’ll be discussing privacy, especially how the definition is changing. We’ll spend some time reading and discussing the challenges to privacy presented by use of digital media and online networks.

There are two readings for Monday: Marshall, P. (2009). Online privacy. CQ Researcher, 19, 933-956.
boyd, d. (2008). Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 14:1, 13-20.
Your blogging assignment is one reading response blog post.

Slides from today are available here.

Enjoy the short week – remember, the college and library are OPEN all week!

~Prof. Leonard

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The video from yesterday, properly embedded this time

Posted on September 22, 2011 | 1 comment

Here it is:

To embed a Youtube video into a post, just click on Share under the video, then copy and paste the http://youtu.be link into your post. ~Prof. L

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If your blog post is late…

Posted on September 21, 2011 | 2 comments

A question came up today about credit for late blog posts. Blog posts are due by the beginning of the class for which they are assigned. If you submit a blog post within 48 hours of its due date and time, you can earn up to 1/2 a point of credit. Remember, blog posts are 20% of your grade, and there are 20 of them, so each post is worth 1 point. I hope that clears it up. Any other questions? Feel free to leave a comment below. ~Prof. L

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Notes from today, and your reading and assignment for Monday, September 26

Posted on September 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

We’ll be moving into discussions about issues in information and media. On Monday, we’ll be discussing access to information — personal and institutional. Over the next few weeks we’ll read and discuss other information issues: privacy, ethics, copyright and fair use. For Monday, please read Martin, The politics of research, from his book Information liberation: Challenging the corruptions of information power and write one reading response blog post.

Classes are cancelled Wednesday, September 28 through Friday, September 30. The college and library are open.

Slides from today are available here.

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