Lessons and Weekly Activities
Lesson 1 Information Has Value:This lesson is all about plagiarism and how to avoid it. |
Monday 5/9 - Sunday 5/15 REVIEW: Syllabus and Course Outline
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Lesson 2 Information Creation as a Process:Here we'll discuss how information comes about and you will ponder your place in the information cycle. |
Monday 5/16 - Sunday 5/22
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Lesson 3 Searching as Strategic Exploration:You will come up with a topic of your choice...make sure it's one you like because you'll use it for all the assignments. You'll develop a thesis from that topic and work on keywords and phrases. |
Monday 5/23 - Sunday 5/29
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Lesson 4 Research as Inquiry:We used Google last time, so this time around you will use the library databases. |
Monday 5/30 - Sunday 6/5
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Lesson 5 Authority is Constructed and Contextual:Here we'll go through searching the interwebs for information. Yep...you get to use Google! BUT you get to learn how to evaluate what you find. |
Monday 6/6 - Sunday 6/12
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Lesson 6 Scholarship as Conversation:This one is all about the why and how citations. We will focus on APA citation style. |
Monday 6/13 - Friday 6/17
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Course Project
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