... is related to information technology skills, but has broader implications for the individual, the educational system, and for society. Information technology skills enable an individual to use computers, software applications, databases, and other technologies to achieve a wide variety of academic, work-related, and personal goals. Information literate individuals necessarily develop some technology skills ...
Increasingly, information technology skills are interwoven with, and support, information literacy.
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Tool literacy - The ability to use print and electronic resources including software
Resource literacy - The ability to understand the form, format, location and access methods of information resources
Social-structural literacy - Knowledge of how information is socially situated and produced. It includes understanding the scholarly publishing process
Research literacy - The ability to understand and use information technology tools to carry our research including discipline-related software
Publishing literacy - The ability to produce a text or multimedia report of the results of research
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INLS200 focuses on concepts and techniques for finding and evaluating information, while INLS261-001 will focus on concepts and the tools needed to communicate your information to users.
We will start from the baseline of the former North Carolina high school computer skills requirement and build from there. [North Carolina ended that requirement in 2009 and replaced it with new standards.] To that end, in INLS261-001 we will explore some basic concepts related to how standards connect computers using various versions of software and hardware. We will spend quite a bit of time gaining practical experience with several Internet tools and resources.
We will also introduce concepts and practice skills germane to effective use of the power built into word processing, spreadsheet, relational database management, and presentation graphics software. Although we may use either the current Open Office or the current Microsoft Office suites of applications for many tasks, the basic concepts should provide you with skills that will enable you to be comfortable with other similar packages.
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either on your personal laptop or on the desktop units in the SILS lab. There will be no paper products generated in this class and there is no printing requirement. You will be well served to bring your laptops with you to class every day.
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to Jessica Bodford, Kristin Chaffin, Serena Fenton, Dr. Lokman Meho, Dr. Xi Niu, Bob Sumner, Dr. Rong Tang, David West and to all the previous instructors of the course. This course is built on all their contributions.
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