Form 6.
3: Course Outline with Assessment Ideas and Activities
Course Title: __Information Literacy___________________________
Module Number and Name: Electronic Communications ___
Objective
Assessment
Ideas
1 Select examples of social
networks
2 Describe the purpose of
specific social networks
3 Identify characteristics of
professional communication
4 Summarize netiquette for
online communication
Learning Task:
Social Networks
Learning Task:
Social Networks
Discussion & Email Professor
Content of E-mail
to Professor
Absorb
Review Social Networks Notes:
Do
Learning Task 1: Social networks
(selecting & categorizing given social
networks; adding others)
Read:
11 Email Etiquette Rules Every
Professional Should Know
(http://www.businessinsider.com/emailetiquette-rules-everyone-should-know-20149?op=1)
Learning Task 2: Send
professional e-mail to instructor;
content of e-mail contains
summary netiquette for online
communication
Email Etiquette: 15 tips for better
workplace email
(http://www.techlifemag.ca/875.htm)
5 Recognize symptoms of
malicious e-mails
Discussion &
Checkpoint
Connect
Watch:
How to Avoid Spam
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ZzDzd
O1Xs)
Recognizing Phishing Scams
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbfZJtGDy
6o)
Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Checkpoint
Course Title: _Information Literacy____________________________________
Module Number and Name: __ Accessing & Evaluating Information
Objective
1 Categorize types of
information
Assessment Ideas
Learning Task:
Information
Types
Absorb
Read: Safari: An Expedition Through the
Information World, sections 1-3
(http://www.open.ac.uk/safari/index.php)
Do
Learning Task
3: Information
Types
Connect
Watch: Types of Information
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ifcyr_j_w)
2 Use keywords and
Boolean operators for
search strings
Learning Task:
Search Strings
Checkpoint
Read: Safari: An Expedition Through
the Information World, section 4
(http://www.open.ac.uk/safari/index.php)
Watch: Searching Using Keywords
Learning Task 4: Creating search
strings from questions &
statement; analysis of search
strings
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tUqc4gn
xc8)
Work: Boolean Tutorial: Searching
Effectively With AND, OR, NOT
(http://lib.colostate.edu/tutorials/boolean_info
.html)
3 List source types
containing reliable
information
Discussion &
Checkpoint
Watch:
Online Reference & Periodical
Databases
Discussion
Checkpoint
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWM
JRY5_Zo4)
Search Tools
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzzI
3t33hgE)
4 Evaluate web sources
Learning Task:
Cite Evaluation
Read:
Safari: An Expedition Through the
Information World, section 5
(http://www.open.ac.uk/safari/index.php)
Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Learning Task 5: Web Site
Evaluation
Evaluating Websites: Criteria &
Tools
(https://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/res
earch/webeval.html)
Watch:
Website Evaluation, sample done by
2 students
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSn
m8u7UOwE)
Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Course Title: _Information Literacy____________________________
Module Number and Name: _ Copyright ______________________
Objective
1 Identify conditions for
copyright
2 Describe the types of
copyright
Assessment Ideas
Checkpoint
3 Summarize the factors
of fair use
Discussion
4 Define the possible
conditions of Creative
Commons
Checkpoint
Learning Task:
Types of
Copyright
Absorb
Watch: Copyright Basics
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiq42O6rh
W4)
Review: Copyright Resources on Joule
Read: Fair Use
Connect
Learning Task
6: Summarize
types of
copyright
Discussion: analysis of scenarios
(http://www.cmsimpact.org/fair-use)
Watch:
Creative Commons Get Creative
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io3BrA
Ql3so)
Creative Commons kiwi
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTlXtE
OplA)
5 Locate materials with
specific licensing
6 Use proper citation
Do
Checkpoint
Learning Task:
Copyright
Learning Task:
Copyright
Checkpoint
Learning Task
7:
Search for 3
items licensed
with Creative
Commons
Learning Task: Web materials with
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgg3Wew3_ citations
Watch: Relocating Web Images for Reuse
r8)
Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
