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Using & Creating Social Information
1. HNFE 3224:
USING & CREATING
SOCIAL INFORMATION
Rebecca Miller
millerrk@vt.edu OR hnfelibrarian@vt.edu
540-231-9669
2. CLASS OVERVIEW
Touch base about research
Evaluating social information & other web
resources
Professional communication & blogging
Citations
Q&A
3. RESOURCES FOR THIS COURSE
I’ve created several resources specifically for this
course:
HNFE 3224 Library Course Guide
Social Media for Nutrition and Food ePortfolio
Basic information and resources about social media tools
(books, journal articles, etc.)
Additionally, this will be available on Slideshare :
http://www.slideshare.net/millerrk
4. SOCIAL INFORMATION
Information is no longer housed in just books or
journals
Web 2.0 = user generated content
Information can be communicated by web
pages, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube…and it’s
all easily searchable by Google
5. SOCIAL INFORMATION PROS & CONS
Pros:
You can communicate with all sorts of people, in all
sorts of locations
It’s easy to publish and create information
Your digital actions can define your professional
reputation and image!
Cons:
You can communicate with all sorts of people, in all
sorts of locations
It’s easy to publish and create information
Your digital actions can define your professional
reputation and image!
6. EVALUATING WEB RESOURCES
None of the old-timers—the professors—can really give
us much advice on sorting through and evaluating
resources. I think we’re kind of one of the first
generations to have too much information, as opposed
to too little. We’ve never had instruction really on
navigating the Internet and picking out good
resources. We’ve been kind of tossed into this and
we’ve just learned through experience we have to go on
a Web site and just raid it for information. So I would
say that despite all that’s out there, it certainly is harder
to find the right source and evaluate whether it’s
good, or not, because there’s so much—you only have a
little bit of time to spend on each source you find
[Engineering student from Project Information Literacy study]
7. EFFECTIVE SEARCHING & EVALUATING
Scenario: you are doing some research and
stumbled across these sites:
http://www.nutri-facts.com
http://www.foodfacts.com/
Are these sites authoritative?
What are you looking at on the sites?
Identify four reasons why you think the sites are good or bad
We will report back and discuss in five minutes:
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/online-countdown/
9. WEBSITE & WEB 2.0
EVALUATION CHECKLIST:
HTTP://WWW.LIB.VT.EDU/INSTRUCT/EVALUATE/
Authority
Is the page signed?
What are the author(s)’ qualifications?
Is there contact information?
Coverage
Is the information relevant?
How in-depth is the material?
Objectivity
Is there any bias?
Are there advertisements on the page?
Accuracy
Is the information reliable?
Is there an editor?
Is the page free of silly spelling/grammatical mistakes?
Currency
Is the page dated?
Are the links current?
Is the design current, or outdated?
10. BLOGGING
Blogging can showcase:
Your communication skills
Your creativity
Your passion and dedication
Your ability to network
The message(s) that you want to send to your audience
Example: http://christinasielbeck.wordpress.com/
What sorts of blogs do you follow?
Why? And how…?
11. NATIONAL NUTRITION MONTH
I blog: http://hnfelibrarian.blogspot.com
Communicate library, technology, and research
messages to HNFE faculty, staff, and students
Explore library issues that may be relevant to HNFE and
other colleagues in the library field
Allows me to digest complex ideas related to research
and library science, and offer my own opinions in a
public arena
http://www.eatright.org/nnm/
12. BLOGGING OPPORTUNITY
Extra credit: up to 20 points
Due February 29
Will be posted on Notes from Newman blog, which
will appear on the National Nutrition Month blog roll
for eatright.org—an opportunity for national
exposure
Think about this as an opportunity for promoting
your message AND promoting yourself, as an
emerging professional
Questions or comments?
14. APA CITATION STYLE
http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/citation/apa.html
Trouble areas:
Deciding what resource format you’re looking at/for
Web resources
Government resources
Others?
My favorite online guides:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
http://library.albany.edu/cfox
15. NAME THAT SOURCE!
For the next three slides, you’ll be voting on what
type of resource a particular citation represents—
Get out your cell phones* or laptops in order to
vote
Text all answers to 37607
OR go to http://PollEv.com to submit the code
*Standard texting rates apply
16. WHAT IS THIS?
Duncan, G. J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Eds.).
(1997). Consequences of growing up poor. New
York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
To 37607 OR http://PollEv.com
A book—416962
A journal article—416963
A chapter in a book—416964
A webpage—416965
17. WHAT IS THIS?
Harlow, H. F. (1983). Fundamentals for preparing
psychology journal articles. Journal of Comparative
and Physiological Psychology, 55, 893-896.
To 37607 OR http://PollEv.com
A book—416962
A journal article—416963
A chapter in a book—416964
A webpage—416965
18. WHAT IS THIS?
Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anders
on, M., Soderland, L., & Brizee, A. (2010, May
5). General format. Retrieved from
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
To 37607 OR http://PollEv.com
A book—416962
A journal article—416963
A chapter in a book—416964
A webpage—416965
19. CREATING CITATIONS
In groups, create a citation for the document I’m
handing out
I will collect the notecards and report back on any
issues or major problem areas
Remember, great APA (and other style) resources
are available:
http://www.lib.vt.edu/find/citation/index.html
20. PROPER FORMAT…
Mustafic, H., Jabre, P., Caussin, C., Murad, M.H., Esc
olano, S., Tafflet, M., …Jouven, X. (2012). Main air
pollutants and myocardial infarction: A systematic
review and meta-analysis. JAMA, 307(7), 713-721.
21. A FEW LAST WORDS
Review:
Citations
Evaluating sources
Blogging opportunity
Other research for this course