Syllabus

=**Syllabus**=

Syllabus

=**Proposed Syllabus for 2011-2012**=


 * Part I: Digital Citizenship** (Ribble & Bailey, Ohler, Johnson, Richardson)


 * Digital access
 * Digital commerce
 * Digital communication
 * Digital literacy
 * Digital etiquette
 * Digital law
 * Digital rights and responsibilities
 * Digital health and wellness
 * Digital security


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 * Part II: What is information?** (Burkhardt, Badke)


 * History of information
 * Information explosion
 * What is information?
 * Information anxiety
 * Where does information come from?
 * What kind of information is it?
 * The quality of information
 * Information today: the state of the art


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 * Part III: Introduction to searching on the Internet** (Hartman & Ackerman, Sauers)


 * Introduction
 * Using the Web for research
 * Evaluating information found on the Web


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 * Part IV: RADCAB (a rubric for evaluating information on the Internet)**(Christensson)


 * R: relevancy
 * A: appropriateness
 * D: detail
 * C: currency
 * A: authority
 * B: bias


 * Part V: Basic Web Literacy** (November, Richardson, Hartman & Ackerman, Shelly)


 * Domain names
 * URLs
 * How search engines work
 * Who controls information on the Internet?
 * How to validate information on the Web
 * Web basics for critical thinking
 * Research outside the box: blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS)


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 * Part VI: Discovering the Internet** (Shelly)


 * History of the Internet
 * Defining the Internet
 * Browsing the Web
 * Searching the Web


 * Part VII: Using the Internet for Research** (Barker & Terry, Devine & Egger-Sider, Hock, Hartman & Ackerman, Badke, Bell)


 * Searching the Internet effectively
 * Constructing complex searching (Boolean)
 * Learning about the Invisible Web
 * Browing subject guides
 * Finding specialty information


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 * Part VIII: Advanced Internet Research Skills I** (Hock, Hartman & Ackerman, Barker & Terry, Badke, Shelly, O Dochartaigh, Bell)


 * Search strategies for search engines
 * Specialized databases
 * Searching for multimedia
 * Working and learning together by sharing information
 * Finding books
 * Finding articles
 * Subject guides revisited
 * Blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS revisited
 * Searching the keyword search engines
 * Interaction, news and multimedia
 * Government documents, archives, statistics
 * Evaluation and citation


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 * Part IX: Advanced Internet Research Skills II** (Badke, Bell)


 * Database searching with keywords and hierarchies
 * Metadata and the power of controlled vocabularies
 * Library catalogs and journal databases


 * Part X: Copyright** (Waxer, Hock, Hartman & Ackerman)


 * Why copyright matters
 * Unauthorized Use and Fair Use


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 * Part XI: The Research Paper Clinic** (Badke, Ballenger, Burkhardt et al., Stripling, Loertscher)


 * The importance of getting curious
 * Developing a research strategy
 * Writing in the middle (note-taking, paraphrasing, summarization)
 * Getting to the draft
 * Revisiting for purpose


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