INLS 110-037: CIP - ISSUES AND TRENDS IN LIS

You will be assigned at least one reading for most of the classes we will have. Although you will have opportunity to comment on the reading in response to class discussion questions, I also ask that you provide written comment on the blog that Chuck Gray will set up for the class. Chuck is a SILS student and also works for the University IT specializing in setting up blogs and helping people with them. He will meet with us on October 10 to describe the process for setting up a blog and to talk a little about blogging in general.

Beginning with the class on November [should be October] 12, please submit at least one entry per week on one of the subjects we will be talking about during that week or on a related topic that interests you. Your entries should be at least 150 words but may be longer. Please also respond to the posting of one of your classmates during the week as well.

Your first post is due by or before Monday, October 17. After that, you will have seven more postings and responses to complete with the last one due Monday, December 5.

For your postings, you may react to a reading (make sure you specify -- perhaps in the title of your posting -- which reading it is), or you can follow up on some discussion that took place in the class, or you can report an observation that is relevant to the topic. If we have a speaker or take a class trip it would be good to consider some element of what you heard or saw in your posting(s).

Do not be concerned about grammar. Your classmates and I will read for substance not for grammatical errors. Your grade for your postings will depend on the quality, relevance and frequency of your postings.

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Revised November 4, 2005.
If you have questions or want to modify the assignment in any way, email Evelyn Daniel.