• Student Presentation
• Team Reports
• Final Paper Requirements
• Review Grades
• Course Evaluations

Assignment

Send a Google Calendar invite to me with the Date,Time, and Location of your presentation. This should be sent to me by the end of the day today. If I don’t receive it, I can’t be there to grade it.

• Dr. Elizabeth Pierce – Chair of Information Science Department
• Team Assignments – You should meet briefly with your team to exchange contact information and to get organized. You should begin to discuss potential topics for your project and come to class next Monday prepared to begin working on the project. The project guidelines can be reviewed here.
• Next Monday you will work on the following with your teammates
  • Service Learning Project Topic – Submit for Approval
  • Team Organization – Who is responsible for what. Everyone should have a role.
  • Project Scheduling – Book your date and time with the DSC for your booth (Week Before Finals)
  • Submit to me as a Google Doc your project proposal (1 Per Team). This document should include all of the information listed above. Due to me by next Monday. Be prepared to give a status report to the class (one per team).
• You are welcome to meet as a team later this week and begin work on the project. I’ll try and get your topic approved within 24 hours of submitting your proposal. After today, you’ll have two full sessions to work on the project before the Thanksgiving Holiday. Working ahead is in your best interest.

Assignment

Blog Post – In your own words answer the question “What is Information Science?”

• Betsy Hart – Office of Community Engagement – (edhart@ualr.edu)
• Complete Presentations
• Service Learning Project Requirements

Assignment: Blog Post – Reflect on your presentation. What were your strengths & weaknesses? Identify areas you could improve and discuss possible strategies for doing so. Please be thorough. In addition to the post please share the presentation file with me via Google Drive or email.

Assignment: Blog Post – Reflect on your presentation. What were your strengths & weaknesses? Identify areas you could improve and discuss possible strategies for doing so. Please be thorough. In addition to the post please share the presentation file with me via Google Drive or email.

• Powerpoint Overview
• Powerpoint Workspace
• Working with the Slide Master
• Custom Shows
• Alternate Presentation Formats
• Extracting and Converting Video
• Audio and Video

Assignment

Be prepared to to present to the class on Monday. Make sure you follow the requirements listed here.

Assignment

Create a Google Doc reflecting  on the experience you had during the scavenger hunt last week. Discuss how your team decided to tackle the hunt, whether or not you felt like you worked as a team, and what you would do differently. When you complete this assignment you should share this document with tswallace@ualr.edu. Do not email me this document!. Use the built in sharing functionality of Google Docs. If you do not know how to do this you can look here for help. (minimum three paragraphs)

• Scavenger Hunt

Assignment

Write a blog post about 5 new tips/tricks you learned from the Power Searching with Google course. Please explain each technique and a situation where you might use it to find valuable information.

• MBTI
• Debrief – Kevin Honeycutt

• Resources

Assignment:

Review your favorite web-based service in a blog post explaining it’s functionality, the pro’s and con’s of using the particular service, and discuss the service’s potential for impacting the way you work. Post is due next Tuesday. Please be prepared to discuss in class.

Complete Class 3 and Class 4  of Power Searching with Google.

• Google Docs/Drive Overview
• Resources

Assignment

Complete the first two sessions  of Power Searching with Google. In the coming weeks we will complete the entire course. Be prepared to discuss when we return to class next Monday.

• Blog Settings
• Applying a Theme
• Customizing the Sidebar
• Widgets
• RSS Feeds

RSS Feed Aggregators

• Feedly
• Digg Reader
• Newsblur
• The Old Reader

The World is Flat 3.0

http://video.mit.edu/watch/the-world-is-flat-30-9321/

Assignment

Customize your blog. Apply a new theme. Customize the sidebar. Add a few widgets. Display an rss feed from a site that you frequent.

(Due  9/9/13) Write a blog post reflecting on your thoughts of Tom Friedman’s The World is Flat 3.0 video. Do you agree or disagree with the author’s perspective on globalization? Please do a through review of this piece and share your thoughts on the topic. This should be a thorough review and critique.

• Syllabus
• Using the Virtual Machines
• Introductions and Site Orientation
• Getting Started with your WordPress Blog
  • WordPress.com
  • What is a blog?
  • Publishing Content | Video Tutorial
  • Pages vs Posts
  • More Resources

Homework

(Due 8.26.13): Write your first blog post reflecting on your personal expectations for the semester. Make sure you categorize and/or tag the post. If you are feeling adventurous try adding a photo to the post.

Send the URL of your newly created blog to tswallace@ualr.edu