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LILAC 2006
The place for
weblogs and RSS newsfeeds
in information skills instruction.
Kara JonesSubject LibrarianMathematics, Computer Sciences, Biology & BiochemistryUniversity of [email protected]
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Overview
Weblog features
RSS Newsfeed features
Information Literacy
Competencies
Building into IL Instruction
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Weblogs
“A blog is a website in which journal entries are posted on a regular basis and typically displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log.” (Wikipedia 2006)
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RSS Newsfeeds
Add categoriesby using tags
Archives
Able to addcomments
Templates =
Easy to create and edit
Updated with any frequency
Individual orcollaborative
Personal diariescommentariesnews updates
Weblog functions
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Weblog features
• Reflective tools • Highlighting a path of progression
• Strengthening evaluation skills
• Being prepared to respond• Improving written communication skills
• Ease of acknowledging sources online • Community building
• Maturing with incorporation into more ‘scholarly’ platforms
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RSS newsfeed functions
• RSS newsfeeds: “push technology”• An alerting service that pushes information updates to
you from websites you’ve selected to your desktop
• Feedreader / aggregator
• RSS – • Really Simple Syndication
• Rich Site Summary
• RDF Site Summary
• ATOM}
XML file formats for syndicating web content.
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RSS Newsfeed features
• RSS newsfeeds on regularly updated websites
• Feedreaders manage and read feeds• Tools for organising new information into manageable chunks
• Delivered to your desktop into folders
• Used for keeping up to date
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Information Literacy frameworks
• CILIP ‘Information Literacy: the skills’• http://www.cilip.org.uk/professionalguidance/informationliteracy/definition/skills.htm
• ACRL ‘Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology (draft)’
• http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/infolitscitech.htm
• CILIP = Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals•
ACRL= Association of College and Research Libraries – ALA
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CILIP Information Literacy skills
This definition implies several skills. We believe that the skills (or competencies) that are required to be information literate require an understanding of:
• a need for information • the resources available • how to find information • the need to evaluate results • how to work with or exploit results • ethics and responsibility of use • how to communicate or share your findings • how to manage your findings.
..’in addition to purposive searching, information can be acquired by browsing, scanning and monitoring information sources… [such as] scanning RSS and news feeds’
..’participating effectively in collaborative writing and publication, including use of collaborative software’ [such as weblogs].
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CILIP Information Literacy skills
This definition implies several skills. We believe that the skills (or competencies) that are required to be information literate require an understanding of:
• a need for information • the resources available • how to find information • the need to evaluate results • how to work with or exploit results • ethics and responsibility of use • how to communicate or share your findings • how to manage your findings.
Weblogs provide a wealth of evaluative information:•author’s affiliation•point of view (bias)•currency
Links to quotations or ideas from others helps reinforce ethical use of information.
Weblogs provide a place for critical reflection and journaling findings. Feedreaders used to sort and organise findings
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ACRL IL Standards for Science and Technology (draft)
• Standard Three: – PI 6: Validates understanding and
interpretation of the information through discourse with other individuals, small groups or teams, subject-area experts, and/or practitioners.
• Standard Five:– The information literate students recognises
the need to keep current regarding new developments in his or her field.
‘..Participates in class-sponsored electronic communication forums designed to encourage discourse on the topic’ [weblogs]
‘..current awareness services, using citation searching, ToC scanning and other rapid communication literature’.
Keeping up to date = RSS newsfeeds. Cited reference searching = trackbacks?
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Weblogs
RSS NewsfeedsIL
Frameworks
Building into IL
instruction
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Building into IL instruction
•Features of weblogs and RSS newsfeeds
•Match to Information Literacy Competencies
•Delivery within Information Literacy instruction:
•Specific classes on ‘Keeping up to date’•Workshops on ‘New scholarly communication trends’
•Advanced general induction classes
•Placed within the ‘Information Life Cycle’
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Information Lifecycle
Used with permission – Curtin University Library and Information Service, 2005
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Info lifecycle stages
1: Ideas and research in progressInternet, newsgroups, blogs…
2: Original publication: 'primary sources' Conference papers, peer-reviewed journal articles…
3: Later publication: 'secondary sources' Review articles, scholarly books, popular literature…
4: Summary publication: reference works Dictionaries, encyclopedias…
5: Guides to the literature and subject guides: 'tertiary sources'
Library subject guides, bibliographies…
“Current info” Difficult to locate
“Older info” Summarised and easier to locate
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Summary
• Weblogs and RSS newsfeeds are social/collaborative technologies that are maturing into scholarly research tools.
• They can be matched to Information Literacy competencies and as such might be included in information skills instruction.
• Identifying these tools within the Information Life Cycle is one method for locating them within Information Literacy instructional objectives.
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ReferencesACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries). 2005. ‘Information Literacy Standards for
Science and Technology (DRAFT) [online]. Available from: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/infolitscitech.htm [Accessed: 8 Jan 2006].
CILIP. 2005. ‘Information Literacy: The Skills’ CILIP Information Literacy [online]. Available from: http://www.cilip.org.uk/professionalguidance/ informationliteracy/definition/skills.htm [Accessed: 10 Jan 2006].
Mazar, R.A. 2005. ‘Faculty blogs: Good idea or Bad idea?’ Random Access Mazar weblog [online]. Available from: http://mazar.ca/archives/2005/05/faculty_blogs_g.html [Accessed 5 Mar 2006].
McCracken, H. 2005. ‘It’s Yahoo mail! It’s an RSS Reader!’, PCWorld [online]. 29 November, 2005. Available from: http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/001110.html [Accessed: 8 Jan 2006].
O’Reilly, Tim. 2005. ‘What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software’. O’Reilly.com [online]. Available from: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=2 [Accessed: 8 Jan 2006].
Tomlin, Sarah. 2005. ‘Science in the web age: The expanding electronic universe’ Nature.com [online]. Available from: http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051128/full/438547a.html [Accessed 5 Dec 2005].