1. Biographical Assignment
Find information about two of the authors of your sources, it doesn't matter which authors or which sources. Look for things like birth/death dates, professional information such as jobs held, publications, awards won, etc. Find out anything you can about each author and write up 1/2 page biography on each one. The full length should be one page for both authors. If you go a little over, that's ok.
How do you find out? Google them, look at your sources for biographical information, check a reference source, do they have a blog/facebook account, etc.? See if you can stalk them with your iphone apps (kidding, obviously).
2. Blog assignment
We've looked at various types of sources. Some were found using the library catalog, including call numbers, specialized subject headings, etc. Some were found using periodical databases, with their own structures and subject terms. Some were found using web search engines such as Google, with keywords and a proprietary algorithm.
What could you possibly say about all this? Come up with something. How do you adjust your searching based on the tool you're using? How does the way information is structured/presented change how you relate to/use it? Can you think of an example in or out of class where the way information was structured/presented really helped or hindered you? Post your comment below.
Wurman - Generally acknowledged as the originator of the term.
Tufte - One of the key names in visualizing information
Flowing data - a website devoted to improving information visualization
For the following two items, I'm not so much interested in whether you think this technology is cool, but rather that you think about the effect of the way information is presented on how we process and use it.
Newsweek article about zooming technology
Zooming technology videol
Another take on similar technology from Adobe.
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Follow up from last week: pay for research and pay to read about it!
1. Find ONE QUALITY WEBSITE and ONE BLOG on your topic and write an MLA citation and an annotation for each. Evaluation questions for your annotations are here.
2. Primary/Secondary source assignment: Evaluate each of the sources you've found so far on your topic, and decide whether each is a primary source or a secondary source. Briefly describe WHY this is the case. If you forget what these things are, check here. Type this into a word document and email it to me as an attachment.
3. The links below deal in one way or another with the copyright issues we discussed in class. Comment on one, any combination, or all of them. Offer your opinion, reaction, or questions raised by the links in a few sentences.
Lawrence Lessig at TED
More recent Lessig video.
Average person infringes 12.45 million dollars of copyright per day, technically.
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Follow up from last week (also related to copyright issues)
1. Find 1 SCHOLARLY, 1 POPULAR, and 1 NEWSPAPER article on your topic, and write citations and annotations for each.
*NONE OF THE 3 ARTICLES MAY BE FROM THE PERIODICAL'S WEBSITE. YOU SHOULD BE USING LIBRARY DATABASES STARTING HERE. Some tips on how to find articles on a specific topic can be found at this page.
Here are the definitions of the different types of periodicals.
Here is a short video explaining how to find scholarly articles using the EBSCO database.
2. Blog assignment - comment on any/all of the items listed below.
Interview with news veteran Av Westin
Videos from class:
Newspapers clip
Magazines
Alisa Miller at TED
Open Access
Public Library of Science