Workshop 3: Managing and sharing information

Hello again!

#SADLw3

Activity: which animal are you?

Information behaviour: Which animal are you?• Discuss how you approach information• Do you recognise yourself or traits in your own

behaviour?

Today: managing and sharing information

• Student Ambassador role discussion: opportunity to raise questions.

• Keeping up to date• Managing (organising information) • Using (quoting, citing) • And sharing (if you want!) …

Student Ambassador role

• What is a student ambassador for digital literacy?– Is the role clear to you?– What support do you need?– How can you support fellow students?– How much time should it take? – What might be the benefits and challenges?– Are the workshops enough? The right content?

Activity: discussion

How do you…• Get alerts for new information• Manage or organise your information• Store or archive your information• Cite your information, create your bibliographies

Feedback to group?

How we do it

Activity: Tools for managing work/information

In your groups try out the app that you have been allocated to see how you would use it to prepare a group presentation. What activities might you need in order to prepare your group presentation? Does it allow you to:

– Share content– Store files– Write collaboratively– Manage/allocate tasks

What features do you like about the app?What tasks does the app not allow you to do?

Consider the process – what do you need for the task?

Recommended tools

• Evernote• Dropbox/ Google Drive• Trello• Wunderlist• Mendeley• RSS Feed readers, e.g. Feedly, NewsBlur,

Netvibes, Flipboard

Evernote• You can incorporate images, audio, video and URLs to your notes to give notes

more context.• You can create checklists to sort out your activities and priorities, making

Evernote useful for personal and academic use.• Evernote automatically archives your notes and has a search function, making

it easier to search through your notes for key concepts than having to look through notebooks.

• You can share notes via email, Twitter, messaging and even send important emails to your Evernote account, so that you can search for them through Evernote, rather than through constantly changing email accounts. You can also add reminder notes through Evernote to remind you to take action for certain emails.

• Access across platforms – you can use Evernote on laptops, smartphones and tablets, and access notes you’ve made on any of these devices on all of them by syncing your notes to your Evernote account.

Trello• Trello is way of organising with boards, lists and cards.• You can add comments, upload file attachments, create

checklists, add labels and due dates• You can invite as many people to your board as you want

(for free) everyone sees the same board all at once• You can drag and drop people to cards to divvy up tasks• You can start a discussion with comments and

attachments – if you mention a member in a comment they get notified

Wunderlist

• Good if you are list maker. • Create and organise tasks in categories – home,

work, different projects• Ability to share lists with others – good if

working in groups. Can assign tasks to others. View shared tasks.

• Make notes about each tasks • Attach files about a task – works with Dropbox

Dropbox and Google Drive

• Dropbox and Google Drive let you store and access your files anywhere and whenever, from your computers, phones, or tablets.

• They’re easy to set up and use.• You can change a file on the web, on your computer, or on your

mobile device and it updates on every device where you’ve installed Google Drive. In Dropbox you can also edit documents, automatically add photos and show videos.

• You can share, collaborate, or work alone.• You can store the first 15 GBs for free across Google Drive, Gmail,

and Google+ Photos. Dropbox offers 2 GBs of free space with the potential to earn more.

Social Bookmarking

• You can access your weblinks from any computer – they are stored online not on computer or in a browser

• You can organise your bookmarks using tags and they are searchable - no folders where the weblinks get lost

• You can add notes to web pages you bookmark (these appear on screen in Diigo)

• You can share some / all of your bookmarks • You can see popular web links people are bookmarking

and through tagging see weblinks on topics that interest you.

Mendeley

• Easy to set up and start using• Access anywhere + desktop version on multiple

PCs/laptops and syncing simple• Easy to add references + documents: pdfs /

journal resources/ form the web as you research • Sharing readings between colleagues working

with you• Inserting citations as you write

Flipboard/RSS• RSS feed readers including Flipboard are easy to set up. It is then

very easy to add new feeds to the reader, particularly in the case of Flipboard.

• The information comes to you rather than you having to check lots of sites meaning that they are great for sites/information that is updated often

• It is designed for use on tablets and phones and there is an app available for iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle Fire & NOOK.

• Flipboard (and some other RSS readers) have a great display and are very attractive to read – like a magazine

• Good for reading on the go – can download some stories and then read them wherever (e.g. on the tube)

..and finally, let’s find out how much you know about academic

integrity!!

Is it plagiarism if you…

Copy a paragraph from a text and put it in your essay without putting it in quotation marks and referencing the source?

Is it plagiarism?

A. YesB. NoC. Unsure

YesNo

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Is it plagiarism if you…

Copy a paragraph from a text and put it in your essay without putting it in quotation marks and referencing the source?

This is probably the most well known example of plagiarism. If you copy exact words, you must enclose them in quotation marks and acknowledge your source in your bibliography.

Is it plagiarism if you…

Include some paragraphs from a previous submitted essay that you have written into the one you are currently submitting?

Is it plagiarism?

A. YesB. NoC. Unsure

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Is it plagiarism if you…

Include some paragraphs from a previous submitted essay that you have written into the one you are currently submitting?

There is such a thing as self-plagiarism. Using your previous work in your current work is actually plagiarism and is not permitted.

Is it plagiarism if you…

Incorporate text from another source, changing one or two words and providing a citation?

Is it plagiarism?

A. Yes B. NoC. Unsure

Yes No

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Is it plagiarism if you…

Incorporate text from another source, changing one or two words and providing a citation?

If you do not intend to quote directly from the source, you must write about it in your own words. Using too many words from the original source is plagiarism, even if you provide a reference.

Is it plagiarism if you…Copy a diagram or data table from a website, providing a reference for the source underneath?

Is it plagiarism?

A. Yes B. NoC. Unsure

Yes No

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Is it plagiarism if you…Copy a diagram or data table from a website, providing a reference for the source underneath? This isn’t plagiarism. You

can include tables, diagrams or images from another source as long as you provide a reference.

Is it plagiarism if you…

Talk about the ideas of another author, written in your own words and without referring to the original author?

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Is it plagiarism if you…

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Plagiarism is….

• Cutting and pasting from other documents.• Quoting without quotation marks or references.• Paraphrasing without referencing.• Summarising without referencing.• Using an image, source and/or diagram without

referencing.• Taking another student’s ideas and passing them off as

your own.• Re-cycling your own work which has been submitted for

assessment elsewhere.• Collaborating on what should be individual work.• Translating a document from another language.

Academic writing is about …

• Posing a question, dilemma, debate that has not been posed in quite the same way before …

• Answering that question, with an answer that has not been constructed in quite the same way before …

• Bringing together your ideas with those of others, making connections between things that have not been connected in quite that way before …

• Using the work/ideas of others is a crucial element, but must be appropriately acknowledged.

LSE Teaching and Learning Centre

Why do we need to cite?

To acknowledge the work of other writers To demonstrate the body of knowledge on which you have

based your work To enable other researchers to trace your sources and lead

them on to further information A standard system of citing ensures an easier system of tracing

knowledge more efficiently If you cite correctly, you don’t need to worry about plagiarism You are upholding and contributing to academic standards and

integrity

Wrap up and feedback

• Workshop 4: Your digital identity - 17 February 2-3.30pm & 19 February 10 – 11.30am

• End of project event – Wed 11 March 3-5pm – Group presentations for final event – your Senior

Ambassadors will contact you next week.

Acknowledgements• All images are licensed under Creative Commons

from http://commons.wikimedia.org • The animal typology based on work by Borg, M. &

Stretton, E. 2009. 'My students and other animals. Or a vulture, an orb weaver spider, a giant panda and 900 undergraduate business students...' Journal of Information Literacy. 3(1), pp. 19-30.

• Plagiarism quiz adapted from “Is it plagiarism quiz” (https://ilrb.cf.ac.uk/plagiarism)