Compose a valid research question
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- Create three possible questions to submit to the instructor for approval.
- Justify their selections and share what they know already
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Resource to consult as to what a good research question is, some model questions and poor questions.
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Create search statements appropriate to research questions
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- Introduce a general search engine (Google, a visual search, and human-filtered search)
- Guide students through creating search statements for general search engines
- Students create a delicious.com account for storing/bookmarking search results.
- Introduce Wikipedia (which likely emerged during general search) - demonstrate using Wikipedia as an entry point to other resources (exploration)
- Introduce concepts of online identity. Have students perform a vanity search to view their current identity online
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Identify (discover) and evaluate search resources, including required library resources (dbs, indexes, catalogs) and other collections and media: social media, music, books, podcasts, the network
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- Find x-number (min) of resources through appropriate mechanisms identified
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Search and Evaluate Results
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- Perform search and find minimum number of results
- Add all results to delicious.com
- Expand resources by exploring bookmark connections
- Evaluate their resources (provide guidelines for minimum number of resources they must have)
- Demonstrate understanding of implications of online/shared identity
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Provide resources for students explaining strategies for logically evaluating the resources they find including rhetoric/spin and info from (for example) http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/
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Copyright and Intellectual Property
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- Copyright Basics
- Fair Use
- Remix Culture
- Alternative Licensing and Creative Commons
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Sharing Results
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- Cite sources in MLA format using x-tool and share
- Reflect on process, content, validity of sources/resources: what was rejected and why? What was troublesome to evaluate? Are any resources still suspect?
- Demonstrate research is publicly accessible through a blog reflection on finding oneself in the system.
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Social Exploration
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- Subscribe to one or more feeds for person(s) owning resources they found through exploration and follow it on their Google homepage (portal page) [add info on Google Reader, etc]
- Attempt to identify authority of that person or persons and reflect how they would be perceived if someone did the same for them (on their blog)
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Identify/choose appropriate presentation medium for justification of choice of source (identifying audience profile, purpose of message, etc.)
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Given a research topic or area of interest the student has already selected, the student will decide the objective for passing the knowledge of this topic/area to an audience, including:
- what knowledge the student will include in the message
- whether the student should best use persuasion or simply inform
- who the audience will be
- what technology will be used to deliver the message (Plan A: WordPress blog, Plan B: if student is familiar with another presentation medium, he/she may use it then link into blog, usability must be considered)
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Perspective and Rhetoric
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- Present information w/ an awareness of how rhetoric shapes the resulting message.
- Reflect on the viewpoint of sources and describe how they differ.
- Reflect in blog how rhetoric shapes the resulting message
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- Rubric of students’ effectiveness in determining factors for delivering topic/area of interest that meets objective.
- Rubric of product that demonstrates effective implementation of objective.
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Re-purpose information in a publicly accessible format
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- Create a dynamic presentation (in blog) with documented tools and methods used throughout this course (use continually for planning and reflection)
- Include each artifact/project created in the course as part or as reference
- Continually evolving annotated bibliography of resources
- Solicit Feedback
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Directly supported presentation method (i.e. the one that is documented thoroughly) will be through the blog the student has been using.
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Final Reflection
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- Reflect current thoughts re: online identity
- Share ways the tools used can be done in the future
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