LIB 101

Fridays, 9-10am

Day 1 1/15
Rules/Syllabus
Trails Test
Homework: fill out worksheet about academic history, learner attitudes and research experience. One article summary of a recent news story (last 2 years) about information literacy (what questions did you have after you read it, what experiences have you had that are related).

Day 2 1/22
Into: quick write about goals for the class
Activity for What is Info Comp (maybe the notecards in groups with State/Explain/Example or 35)
Readings defining information
Homework: read Siva, research and summarize who he is, what people say about him that influence your understanding of his article

Day 3 1/29
Activity for Generations and Technology (Quotations activity)
Siva
Homework: read an article about info use in jobs

Day 4 2/5
(SCIL Works, Long Beach)
Communities and information
How do people find out?

2/12 President's Day

Day 5 2/19
How google works
Defining trengths and weaknesses (these should be general enough that they can be applied to any info tool)

Day 6 2/26
Student interviews about info seeking and use
Developing hypotheses about inquiry
homework: read articles about adult literacy levels, comment on my blog post about literacy; post summaries of interviews because we'll come back to them later

Day 7 3/5
Literacy

Day 8 3/12
Tools
homework: find one scholarly article, two popular articles and three websites on the same topic and fill out eval sheets for each

Spring Break

Day 9 3/26

Day 10 4/2

Day 11 4/9
CARL -- In class essay

Day 12 4/16

Day 13 4/23

Day 14 4/30
LOEX

Day 15 5/7

Finals

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What about sociopolitical concerns about who gets to create knowledge?

Guests to be interviewed about how they relate to information to create their own knowledge, what they're curious about, what information they seek out for themselves:
Hal, Jon, Matt, Dick, Elizabeth... any other women?

Elmborg -- Social/political
http://slis.uiowa.edu/~elmborg/Literacies-Large-and-Small.pdf
Hensley -- Inquiry
Swanson?

Use Hal's anti-plagiarism lesson about Chris Anderson