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This document provides an overview of an introductory course on information literacy. It introduces the instructor, Jim, and asks students to provide their name and major. The document explains that the course will teach students to determine information needs, find and evaluate information, and understand how to properly use information while considering economic, legal and social issues. It emphasizes that students need information skills for jobs, health, school and life. The document notes that people receive too much unwanted information and have trouble finding what they want, demonstrating the need to improve information filtering abilities. It concludes by directing students to the syllabus and assignments for the first week on the course website.
Cap 233 intro
- 2. Who Am I? Jim ! Doctor FitzGerald! Just Jim! Professor FitzGerald! No, really...just Jim!!!
- 3. Why Me? Degree in Philosophy! Masters in Library & Information Science! Work in Information Resources! Finding, evaluating, & sharing info is what I do.
- 5. What about you? Name?! Major?! Why are you here?
- 6. What will we be doing? determining need! getting info! evaluating info! using it! understanding economic, legal, social issues
- 7. Why are we doing this? jo bs You NEED information! hea lth ch products ar s se er re p pa GRA D Legal scho ol News
- 8. Why are we doing o n this? ati * r m AD nfo LO I E R O V *or "filter failure"
- 9. Why are we doing this?
- 10. Why are we doing this? You get TONS of info you DON'T want (e.g. email spam, stupid Facebook & Twitter status updates)! You have difficulty finding the info you DO want (e.g. the perfect source for your final project, changing privacy settings on Facebook)
- 11. Why are we doing this? You NEED information! You need to FIND it quickly! You need to EVALUATE it effectively! You need to USE it APPROPRIATELY
- 12. What SPECIFICALLY are we doing? C li ck He re Syllabus
- 13. What you need to do this week... Go to Blackboard, 'Content' link on left side, Week 1 folder! Read syllabus & complete Quiz 1! Submit Exercise 1! Complete survey