i am very happy overall with what i have learnt in this module as it is a subject i had never studied before,
i learnt a lot about the learning objectives such as
• Understanding information seeking as a process and applying this process to everyday information queries.
• Appreciating the structural characteristics of subject literatures and communication dynamics within research communities.
• Identifying the characteristics of a selected range of printed and electronic information resources, including Web 2.0 resources.
• Identifing and analysing the structure of the information chain, particularly within the European environment as well as at a global level.
• Identifying, locate, evaluate, and use information resources effectively for everyday information seeking.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
week 12
this was the final week, we spent this week gettin everything together and we had one final meeting this week to make sure everything was sorted for our assessment submission. turns out classes were cancelled this week because of the weather so i did some revision of some of the topics we had covered in clasws that i had found most interesting.
• To explore innovative means of information seeking
• To examine the strategies of successful information seekers
I looked at the different theories behind information seeking behaviour...
e.g. Zipf's Principle of Least Effort, Brenda Dervin's Sense Making, Elfreda Chatman's Life in the Round - seek to understand the processes that surround information seeking. i found these to be very enthralling.
• To explore innovative means of information seeking
• To examine the strategies of successful information seekers
I looked at the different theories behind information seeking behaviour...
e.g. Zipf's Principle of Least Effort, Brenda Dervin's Sense Making, Elfreda Chatman's Life in the Round - seek to understand the processes that surround information seeking. i found these to be very enthralling.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
week 11
We had a test this week on the friday... I had done a lot of preparation for it... mainly just reading through the 'information pathways' book...and reviewing and learning notes we had made in class... I was quite happy with my overall result..
I practiced using a few different resources for the last part of my information hunt as in the first part we were recommended to discuss more about our usage of OPAC etc. I fiddled oround with OPAC, wikileak, search engine watch, brittanica and the internet public library.
we recently went to the health science library to complete question 3, we actually found it quite hard to find the information at first but we finally did and we found that OPAC helped us a lot. i had never used the health science library before and found it quite nice and modern
I practiced using a few different resources for the last part of my information hunt as in the first part we were recommended to discuss more about our usage of OPAC etc. I fiddled oround with OPAC, wikileak, search engine watch, brittanica and the internet public library.
we recently went to the health science library to complete question 3, we actually found it quite hard to find the information at first but we finally did and we found that OPAC helped us a lot. i had never used the health science library before and found it quite nice and modern
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
week 11
Found the wednesday leacture great, its was all aon about the information created electronically such as youtube, facebook, email etc. We were shown some great clips on youtube, i you tubed many different things after this, it amazed me how many views some stuff had eg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs
over 73million! was funny but not that funnY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs
over 73million! was funny but not that funnY!
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
week 10.
In class we got our results back from the 1st 2 questions. I was reasonably happy but wanted to try push everyone to work even harder to do even better in the final task.
I had a good look at where we went wrong in the 1st 2.
In class we had a look and many different types of info sources that were handed to us eg leaflets on the lisbon treaty, world maps, bank publications and looked at what they offered to us. This weeks class made me ask myself some questions.
How can we be more innovative in finding the information for our tasks?
What's the best strategy for us to be successful?
I re read chapter 9 in information pathways too along with the book.
we did question 5 as a group
5. In a group, visit the General Record Office (GRO), Dublin. Locate the marriage certificate of Joseph Plunkett and answer the following questions:
a) Where did the couple marry?
b) What are the full names of the bride and groom, as listed on the marriage certificate?
How did you prepare yourself to locate this information? What information about this marriage is available in other print and electronic resources?
interesting question. learnt a lot about the gro.
The General Register Office is the central civil repository for records relating to Births, Deaths and Marriages in Ireland
Their records of marriages other than Roman Catholic marriages date back to 1st April 1845!!! .
I had a good look at where we went wrong in the 1st 2.
In class we had a look and many different types of info sources that were handed to us eg leaflets on the lisbon treaty, world maps, bank publications and looked at what they offered to us. This weeks class made me ask myself some questions.
How can we be more innovative in finding the information for our tasks?
What's the best strategy for us to be successful?
I re read chapter 9 in information pathways too along with the book.
we did question 5 as a group
5. In a group, visit the General Record Office (GRO), Dublin. Locate the marriage certificate of Joseph Plunkett and answer the following questions:
a) Where did the couple marry?
b) What are the full names of the bride and groom, as listed on the marriage certificate?
How did you prepare yourself to locate this information? What information about this marriage is available in other print and electronic resources?
interesting question. learnt a lot about the gro.
The General Register Office is the central civil repository for records relating to Births, Deaths and Marriages in Ireland
Their records of marriages other than Roman Catholic marriages date back to 1st April 1845!!! .
week 9
We met on the monday to put togethr question 3 and get started on the next task.
I felt quite happy with the question and very excited to move on to the next.
I did some further information seeking exercises on newspapers and the impact of this information publication and control.
I love the NLI on kildare street i thought it was very stimulating and was a great library mainly because of its innovation.
I felt quite happy with the question and very excited to move on to the next.
I did some further information seeking exercises on newspapers and the impact of this information publication and control.
I love the NLI on kildare street i thought it was very stimulating and was a great library mainly because of its innovation.
week 8
we spent this week preparing for the 3rd question which I found very interesting as I am very interested in the area of braodcasting and radio. We had some trouble locating the letter to the editing but using effective search stratigies we have learnt such as we eventually found it.
The topics for this week were information publication and control. I had a look through a lot of different types of newspapers eg tabloids and broadsheets and compared them noticing how but better the broadsheets such as the irish times were.
The topics for this week were information publication and control. I had a look through a lot of different types of newspapers eg tabloids and broadsheets and compared them noticing how but better the broadsheets such as the irish times were.
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