Participants

Chris Beks

Search and research

Chris Lott

Alignment with LS 100x curriculum

Christen Bouffard

Information Management (see http://rhetorica.uaf.edu/wiki/InformationFluencyCourse/InformationManagement)

Colleen McKenna

an assignment that might fit into the area of the Info Fluency diagram where "Critical Thinking" meets "Presentation". I teach Web and Database design courses and I put a heavy focus on usability throughout my curriculum. I believe that usability concepts can and should be applied to all types of information resources, and I would like to look for ways to broaden the scope of usability analysis beyond web sites and databases. I haven't fully fleshed it out yet, but I would shoot for an assignment that focuses on informal methods for analyzing usability and the process of using iterative design to improve upon presentation.

Curt Madison

Information Fluency is important for UA in two ways.

First,We need to address core competency in new ways for students leaving the UA system. The workforce requires people to search, analyze, collaborate, and participate electronically.

Second, We need to address core competency in new ways for students enrolled in the UA system. The avalanche of information surrounding every course will overwhelm students unless they have the tools to determine validity and priority. It is exactly at this point that students shape the community of practice we all inhabit. Now is the time for them be become competent.

We will need to look beyond historical UA system divisions just as we look beyond historic academic content area divisions if we hope to accomplish our needs. The ITS cross-campus faculty is an excellent vehicle to share our understanding of Information Fluency and to create a united front through joint marketing.

Eve Dillingham

Activity outline: 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. The objective will determine:

1. what knowledge the student will include in the message
2. whether the student should best use persuasion or simply inform
3. who the audience will be
4. what technology will be used to deliver the message

• 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.

Jodi Bailey

Presentation + Critical Thinking = Rhetoric

Joe Mason?

I’d like to work on the domain knowledge-critical thinking arena. I’d like to develop an exercise which invites students to look at new technologies, evaluate them in regards to applying them to a specific endeavor, and then issue an assessment of the products. I think that the last component would add the “presentation w/feedback” component, but the focus would be on domain knowledge/critical thinking.

Katie Walker

an activity that relates critical thinking to presentation using an e-portfolio activity.

Susie Feero

I'm developing an activity that combines critical thinking and presentation for my computer literacy students. I want my students to have time to explore what "living online" means to them, reflect on how they want to present themselves to an online community, develop their presentation, interact with online community, collect input from other users, reflect on connects/disconnects between their own perceptions and others.