week 13

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.

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.