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Notes for Monday, September 12

Posted on September 7, 2011 by | Leave a comment

For Monday, September 12, please read Pavlik pp, 1-7 (distributed in class). Also read Harrington and Meade pp. 6-9 (the Executive Summary, parts 1.1 through 1.10) and view two short videos: Blogs in Plain English and  Wikis in Plain English. Your writing assignment is one 100-word reading (or viewing) response blog post.

Remember that the OpenLab is on the open web for anyone to see, and you do not need to log in to read the latest blog posts. You will need to log in to post your own blog posts, of course.

We are a day behind the printed syllabus I distributed on the first day of class. When I get word about how the college plans to make up Monday classes that were canceled, I’ll update the syllabus and make a PDF available to download here.

I’ll get in touch with the OpenLab tech support folks and keep you updated. Do not hesitate to get in touch, either by email or by leaving a comment here, if you have questions about course readings, blogging assignments, etc.

~Prof. Leonard

 

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Navigating to the Dashboard and creating a new blog post

Posted on September 1, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Once you have created your OpenLab account and are ready to start blogging, you’ll need to get to the Dashboard to create a new post. After you log in, go to to My Sites > LIB 1201 Fall 2011 > Dashboard, and then click on Posts> New Posts. You can also try this: go to My Sites > LIB 1201 Fall 2011 > New Post. Hope this is helpful! ~Prof. Leonard

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LIB 1201 – Research and Documentation for the Information Age – Notes for Monday, August 29

Posted on June 15, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Welcome to the course website for LIB 1201, Research and Documentation for the Information Age. I will use this site to communicate about readings, assignments, and deadlines, and you will use it to blog about the required readings and research and to comment on your classmates’ blog posts. This site will host links to course readings and assignments and be the primary place where we communicate outside of class.

We are one of the first courses to use OpenLab, an open learning platform developed especially for teaching and learning at City Tech. The pdf version of the syllabus is available to download, and I will distribute paper copies on the first day of class.

Copies of William Badke’s Research Strategies, the textbook for this class, are available in the college bookstore. A copy of the book is also on reserve under the call number Z710 .B23 2008. An eBook (for Nook, Kindle, and as a PDF) is available for $8-10 from the publisher’s website. Please use either the third edition (2008) or the fourth edition (2011).

By our next class meeting on Wednesday, August 31, you must create an OpenLab account using your City Tech email address. You can change your preferred email in your OpenLab account once you have created your account. Once you have created your account, I’ll add you as members of the class and as authors of the course blog and you can begin blogging. Your first blog post, a response to the assigned readings, is due on Wednesday. See the blogging guidelines for more information about blogging for this class.

~Prof. Leonard

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