Advanced Information Retrieval/Information Literacy with Analysis of Web Sites

 

Given a research topic, the student will locate, select, and evaluate five high-quality information sources using a combination of online sources (subscription databases, online news sources, Web pages located through use of search engines.)  Students will:  1) Be given a research topic, along with a checklist of five evaluative criteria necessary for a thoughtful evaluation of the quality of the information sources (authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency and coverage.).  2) Be informed that they will need to find high quality information sources (of the type listed in the objective above) that would be used as basic information for a report on a given topic.  3) Use computers connected to the Web (w/CD-ROM databases if not available on the Web) to research the topic. 

4) Complete an Information Literacy Evaluation Checklist for each of the information sources located and selected.  5) The checklist will then be compared to the actual information source for accuracy.  6) Points assigned for each of the five criteria will be used to rate the quality of the information sources.

 

PowerPoint Presentation 

 

¨Start Presentation Program                    ¨Insert Movie               

¨Select Presentation Design                     ¨Insert Graph                             

¨Select Slide Layout For:                                       ¨Assign Values To Graph

      ·Title Page                                         ¨Change Graph Style

      ·Graph Page                                        ¨Animate Text

      ·Picture Page                                                   ¨Animate Picture                                                 

¨Select Font                                             ¨Select Slide Transition

¨Select Font Style                                    ¨Check Spelling

¨Select Font Size                                      ¨Layer Text, Pictures and Graphics

¨Select Font Color                                      (Send to Back, Bring to Front, etc.)

¨Resize Text / Picture Box                       ¨Build Hyperlinks (Buttons)

¨Copy Text                                             ¨Assign Text as Hyperlink

¨Paste Text                                             ¨View Slides

¨Insert Clip Art                                        ¨View Outline

¨Insert Picture From File                                      ¨Manipulate Slide Sequence

¨Create Note Pages                                  ¨Print Note Pages And/Or Outline

¨Print Handouts                                                    ¨Print Slides (Multiple Per Page)

¨Save Presentation in Student Folder        ¨Create Automated Presentation

¨Create Customized Background               ¨Manipulate Graphic Format (Colors, Size)

¨Assign Picture As Hyperlink

                                                                

Note:  PowerPoint presentations require a minimum of five slides.  Average time to complete the presentation is approximately three hours.