Your organization of your information
The purpose of this assignment is to relate the tasks that you perform in your role as a student to the kinds of information that you collect and use to support those tasks; to compare those strategies with your strategies for maintaining information for your social, recreational, and personal interests; and to consider how an organization may influence both the tasks performed and the information used.
To complete the assignment, you should first:
- Identify the tasks that you perform as a student (examples: read, write papers, search for information, study for exams, etc.)
- Identify the kinds of information that you use to perform each task and identify where the information is located (examples: articles, books, blogs, etc. may be used in the reading task and some of them may be in a textbook on your shelf, downloaded from the library, or read online)
- You can document the above in lists, or you can generate a concept map if you wish.
- Describe briefly how these items are organized in your workspace (examples: in folders by course, by date, etc.)
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In a brief, reflective product you should address the following questions:
- If you were to perform the same task for your email, your digital photos, your digital music, and other items of personal interest, what differences would you find in task, information type, and structure?
- How much does UNC and/or SILS influence the way you organize your digital information? Would someone else be able to use your structure easily?
- What percentage of the stuff in your physical space (desk, apartment, etc.) and your digital space (laptop, home directory on the network, Google space, etc.) is school-related?
- What do you like best about your organizational structure and what do you find most challenging?
To help frame your thoughts, you might take a glance at
- Sease, R., & McDonald, D.W. (2011). The organization of home media. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 18(2), Article 9.
You may use any tool you wish to accomplish this task (a document; a PowerPoint presentation; a Prezi presentation; anything)
But do be sure to place the deliverable in your online storage location and provide the instructor a link to that it may be retrieved. If you send the instructor a link in an email, also ensure that the same link is in your online portfolio as well.
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