This document summarizes an overview for a class on using and creating social information. It discusses evaluating social media and web resources, professional communication and blogging, citations, and resources for the course. The instructor provides an overview of social information and its pros and cons. Students learn to evaluate websites and practice citing sources. The instructor describes blogging opportunities and discusses National Nutrition Month. The class covers APA citation style and practicing creating citations.
This presentation was given on October 15, 2009, as part of the Louisiana State University Libraries Tech Talks Series, facilitated by Digital Technologies Librarian Rebecca Miller.
This presentation was given on October 15, 2009, as part of the Louisiana State University Libraries Tech Talks Series, facilitated by Digital Technologies Librarian Rebecca Miller.
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- To introduce you to the need to properly research topics using online resources (although ‘Google’ is now a verb, it isn’t research)
- To equip you with the tools to critically evaluate research found online
- To enable your professional growth as a lifelong learner
Learning Objectives
At the end of this lecture the student should be able to:
- Perform complex searches using Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia and other tools
- Outline the benefits of bookmarking and research tools such as Delicio.us, Digg, and Stumbleupon, and use these tools
- Evaluate research found online for quality
- Properly cite and record online research when you find it using tools such as Evernote or OneNote
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Many of us nowadays invest significant amounts of time in sharing our activities and opinions with friends and family via social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter or other related. However, despite the availability of many platforms for scientists to connect and share with their peers in the scientific community the majority do not make use of these tools, despite their promise and potential impact and influence on our future careers. We are being indexed and exposed on the internet via our publications, presentations and data. We also have many more ways to contribute to science, to annotate and curate data, to “publish” in new ways, and many of these activities are as part of a growing crowdsourcing network. This presentation provides an overview of the various types of networking and collaborative sites available to scientists and ways to expose your scientific activities online. Many of these can ultimately contribute to the developing measures of you as a scientist as identified in the new world of alternative metrics. Participating offers a great opportunity to develop a scientific profile within the community and may ultimately be very beneficial, especially to scientists early in their career.
This is a comparative analysis of five different citation managers. We compared the functionality, features and user comments of Endnote, Colwiz, Mendeley, Zotero and Qiqqa.
Purpose:
- To introduce you to the need to properly research topics using online resources (although ‘Google’ is now a verb, it isn’t research)
- To equip you with the tools to critically evaluate research found online
- To enable your professional growth as a lifelong learner
Learning Objectives
At the end of this lecture the student should be able to:
- Perform complex searches using Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia and other tools
- Outline the benefits of bookmarking and research tools such as Delicio.us, Digg, and Stumbleupon, and use these tools
- Evaluate research found online for quality
- Properly cite and record online research when you find it using tools such as Evernote or OneNote
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Using & Creating Social Information
1. HNFE 3224:
USING & CREATING
SOCIAL INFORMATION
Rebecca Miller
millerrk@vt.edu OR hnfelibrarian@vt.edu
540-231-9669
2. CLASS OVERVIEW
Touch base about research
Evaluating social information & other web
resources
Professional communication & blogging
Citations
Q&A
3. RESOURCES FOR THIS COURSE
I’ve created several resources specifically for this
course:
HNFE 3224 Library Course Guide
Social Media for Nutrition and Food ePortfolio
Basic information and resources about social media tools
(books, journal articles, etc.)
Additionally, this will be available on Slideshare :
http://www.slideshare.net/millerrk
4. SOCIAL INFORMATION
Information is no longer housed in just books or
journals
Web 2.0 = user generated content
Information can be communicated by web
pages, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube…and it’s
all easily searchable by Google
5. SOCIAL INFORMATION PROS & CONS
Pros:
You can communicate with all sorts of people, in all
sorts of locations
It’s easy to publish and create information
Your digital actions can define your professional
reputation and image!
Cons:
You can communicate with all sorts of people, in all
sorts of locations
It’s easy to publish and create information
Your digital actions can define your professional
reputation and image!
6. EVALUATING WEB RESOURCES
None of the old-timers—the professors—can really give
us much advice on sorting through and evaluating
resources. I think we’re kind of one of the first
generations to have too much information, as opposed
to too little. We’ve never had instruction really on
navigating the Internet and picking out good
resources. We’ve been kind of tossed into this and
we’ve just learned through experience we have to go on
a Web site and just raid it for information. So I would
say that despite all that’s out there, it certainly is harder
to find the right source and evaluate whether it’s
good, or not, because there’s so much—you only have a
little bit of time to spend on each source you find
[Engineering student from Project Information Literacy study]
7. EFFECTIVE SEARCHING & EVALUATING
Scenario: you are doing some research and
stumbled across these sites:
http://www.nutri-facts.com
http://www.foodfacts.com/
Are these sites authoritative?
What are you looking at on the sites?
Identify four reasons why you think the sites are good or bad
We will report back and discuss in five minutes:
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/online-countdown/
9. WEBSITE & WEB 2.0
EVALUATION CHECKLIST:
HTTP://WWW.LIB.VT.EDU/INSTRUCT/EVALUATE/
Authority
Is the page signed?
What are the author(s)’ qualifications?
Is there contact information?
Coverage
Is the information relevant?
How in-depth is the material?
Objectivity
Is there any bias?
Are there advertisements on the page?
Accuracy
Is the information reliable?
Is there an editor?
Is the page free of silly spelling/grammatical mistakes?
Currency
Is the page dated?
Are the links current?
Is the design current, or outdated?
10. BLOGGING
Blogging can showcase:
Your communication skills
Your creativity
Your passion and dedication
Your ability to network
The message(s) that you want to send to your audience
Example: http://christinasielbeck.wordpress.com/
What sorts of blogs do you follow?
Why? And how…?
11. NATIONAL NUTRITION MONTH
I blog: http://hnfelibrarian.blogspot.com
Communicate library, technology, and research
messages to HNFE faculty, staff, and students
Explore library issues that may be relevant to HNFE and
other colleagues in the library field
Allows me to digest complex ideas related to research
and library science, and offer my own opinions in a
public arena
http://www.eatright.org/nnm/
12. BLOGGING OPPORTUNITY
Extra credit: up to 20 points
Due February 29
Will be posted on Notes from Newman blog, which
will appear on the National Nutrition Month blog roll
for eatright.org—an opportunity for national
exposure
Think about this as an opportunity for promoting
your message AND promoting yourself, as an
emerging professional
Questions or comments?
14. APA CITATION STYLE
http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/citation/apa.html
Trouble areas:
Deciding what resource format you’re looking at/for
Web resources
Government resources
Others?
My favorite online guides:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
http://library.albany.edu/cfox
15. NAME THAT SOURCE!
For the next three slides, you’ll be voting on what
type of resource a particular citation represents—
Get out your cell phones* or laptops in order to
vote
Text all answers to 37607
OR go to http://PollEv.com to submit the code
*Standard texting rates apply
16. WHAT IS THIS?
Duncan, G. J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Eds.).
(1997). Consequences of growing up poor. New
York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
To 37607 OR http://PollEv.com
A book—416962
A journal article—416963
A chapter in a book—416964
A webpage—416965
17. WHAT IS THIS?
Harlow, H. F. (1983). Fundamentals for preparing
psychology journal articles. Journal of Comparative
and Physiological Psychology, 55, 893-896.
To 37607 OR http://PollEv.com
A book—416962
A journal article—416963
A chapter in a book—416964
A webpage—416965
18. WHAT IS THIS?
Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anders
on, M., Soderland, L., & Brizee, A. (2010, May
5). General format. Retrieved from
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
To 37607 OR http://PollEv.com
A book—416962
A journal article—416963
A chapter in a book—416964
A webpage—416965
19. CREATING CITATIONS
In groups, create a citation for the document I’m
handing out
I will collect the notecards and report back on any
issues or major problem areas
Remember, great APA (and other style) resources
are available:
http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/citation/index.html
20. PROPER FORMAT…
Mustafic, H., Jabre, P., Caussin, C., Murad, M.H., Esc
olano, S., Tafflet, M., …Jouven, X. (2012). Main air
pollutants and myocardial infarction: A systematic
review and meta-analysis. JAMA, 307(7), 713-721.
21. A FEW LAST WORDS
Review:
Citations
Evaluating sources
Blogging opportunity
Other research for this course