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Summer 2003: Week 4
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Week 4: Mission
This week we begin the unit of study titled "Information Discovery, Retrieval, and Management." Our
mission, as you might guess, is to access, analyze, and
organize the resources we will use to develop our
project.
Class Meeting: July 1, 2003
We will be at the MOO promptly
at 1:00 pm. Plan for class to last two hours. Before class,
please read the document titled Preparing for MOO Class.
FYI: There will be no online class meeting next week.
Assignment 2.1.1: Essential/Foundation Questions: Revised
Due: July 13, 2003 (midnight)
You will post your response to this assignment in the class weblog. Click on the Essential/Foundation Questions: Revised link (right hand column of class weblog) to post to the class blog.
Assignment 2.1.2: Search Strategies
Due: July 13, 2003 (midnight)
The
next step in the research process (after framing our essential and
foundation questions) is to develop a search strategy. Last week
I asked you to experiment with several search engines to provide you
with choices for searching. Now, read the following:
Assignment 2.1.3: Collaborate
Due: ongoing
Last
week I asked you to keep an eye on the revised essential and
foundation questions as they were posted. Now you have an idea
about what areas of interest your classmates are pursuing. Should
you, in searching for information for your own project, find
information that might be useful to other students in the class, please
use the class mailing list to share what you have found.
Class Mailing List: cd315-list@marshall.edu
Assignment 2.1.4: WWW-Evaluating Resources I
Due: July 13, 2003 (midnight)
The
Internet has provided us with fingertip, immediate access to literally
tons of information. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I
think that answer to those questions is "yes" and "yes."
Uninformed, uncritical use of the information you access on the
Internet can be dangerous. How can you use information from the
Internet with some degree of reassurance that the information is
appropriate and valid? Read the following:
In
this task, we will be evaluating a common resource. The article
linked below was sent to me by a friend who was quite interested in the
topic. Use the link below to discover the form suggested by the
Libraries of Purdue University for evaluating web resources. About
halfway down that page you will find their suggestions for evaluating
web resources. Each of you must evaluate this resource using the
Purdue format (link below).
Article: SIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION WITH ELEPHANTS
Evaluation Form: Evaluating World Wide Web Information: The Libraries of Purdue University
Send to: cd315-list@marshall.edu
Subject: A2.1.4: WWW-Evaluating Resources I
Assignment 2.1.5: WWW - Evaluating Resources II
Due: July 13, 2003 (midnight)
In
this assignment, use the information available from the link below to
evaluate an information source (relating to your project topic).
You may use any information source relating to your topic that you
found on the Internet (remember when you did the "topic search"
assignment?). This evaluation will be completed on the
basis of authorship, publishing body, and currency as suggested in the
second link. Send email to the class list and discuss what you
discovered in each of those three areas. Make certain that you
include the URL of the resource you are evaluating in your email
message.
Send to: cd315-list@marshall.edu
Subject line: A2.1.5: Resource Eval 2
Assignment 2.1.6: WWW - Resource Evaluation III
Due: July 13, 2003 (midnight)
In
this task, use the format shown in the link below to evaluate an
information source you discovered published on the world wide
web. Send email to the class list and discuss your evaluation.
Send to: cd315-list@marshall.edu
Subject line: A2.1.6: Resource Eval 3
Assignment 2.1.7: Professional Mailing List
Due: ongoing
Keep
reading the postings from the mailing list you are subscribed to.
In a week or so I'll be asking you to file a mailing list "report" so
pay close attention to the messages you receive (think about their
purpose, their audience, their source). You may even want to save
a few messages from the list that are representative of the types of
messages that come through the list -- that way you'll have quotes to
use in your mailing list report.
Having
spent the last week as a list lurker, if you feel that you are ready to
join in the conversation this week, go ahead; if you don't, lurk some
more. Do NOT write to the list and ask for people to provide you
with resources for your research topic.
Assignment 2.1.8: Revise Web Page
Due: July 13, 2003 (midnight)
Make
a revision to your webpage by adding a link to the course weblog.
When finished, send an email to the class list to let us know your
revision if finished.
You can revise your home page by:
- Using
Internet Explorer, visit your webpage (the URL you sent to the class
list and linked in the right hand column of this weblog).
- Go to the "file" menu and select "edit with Microsoft Front Page."
- This will open up your page in front page. Make your changes.
- To add a link in your webpage, type the text you want people to see (the text they will click on).
- Highlight the text you just typed and click on the world and chain link icon in the formatting bar at the top of front page.
- In the window that opens, put in the URL of the webpage the link should divert the reader to.
For
example, if you are making a link to the CD 315 class homepage, you
might type 'CD 315' as the text, then highlight that text, and in the
"create hyperlink" window, type in the address of the class page (http://www.muwpreview15/).
- Save
your document (remember that your home page is always named index.htm
so be certain to use the same name). Pay attention to where your
document is saved so you can retrieve it quickly to ftp it to the
server.
- FTP your revised document (index.htm) to your webspace.
- Visit your URL to make certain that your modifications are reflected since the FTP.
Continue
to develop your webliography as you find sites related to the topic of
your research. review the Instructions for Webliography to
remind yourself of the requirements of this particular genre.
Send to: cd315-list@marshall.edu
Subject: A2.1.8: Web Page Revised!
Assignment 2.1.9: Publish a Webliography
Due: July 13, 2003 (midnight)
The
webliography is one of the first genres you must present in draft form
(see Course Outline and notice the dates for drafts of the various
genres you will be developing). You can read the "Instructions
for Webliography" to gain an idea of what your final product might look
like.
Let's
use this week to get a very rough-rough draft of a webliography
posted just to see how it goes (your real draft of this won't be due
for a couple of weeks yet but I wanted to get something started to make
sure you have mastered links, html formatting, etc. before then).
Work on getting the structure of your webliography set up, fill in with
what URLs you currently have (you can add, and will add, more later),
and publishing your webliography to your web space. When you have
your webliography published, send an email to the class list.
This
is how you will create a webliography (the instructions from the
previous week about publishing a web page may come in handy here):
- Start Microsoft Front Page. Put in the required information for the webliography.
- Save your page as "webliography" and make certain the file format shows "htm, html, etc."
- FTP the webliography.htm file to your www folder on the webpages server.
BE CAREFUL
naming your webliography. If you happen to mistakenly name it
index.htm and publish it then your first web page (your home page) will
be gone.
Send to: cd315-list@marshall.edu
Subject: A2.1.9: Webliography Published
Assignment 2.1.10: Online Journal
Due: July 6, 2003 (midnight)
Sometime
between Friday (July 4) and Sunday (July 6) at midnight, post your
weekly online journal. You will be posting your online journal
entries (as well as some other items) to your blog. Please note
that this assignment, unlike most of the others, does NOT enjoy the two
week completion time. In other words, your online journal
postings must be made each week (between Friday and
Sunday midnight as explained in the instructions) in order to
receive credit for them. Please review the "Instructions for
Online Journals" to ensure acceptable completion of this
assignment.
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