INLS161-001 Spring 2025

Tools for Information Literacy

  • Office hours
  • I will normally have office hours on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday between 1400-1530 in Manning Hall, room 305, or via Zoom.
  • At any time, if my door is open, I'll be there and am ready to speak with you.
    If it isn't, I can be available via Zoom or Teams Meetings at a mutually agreed upon time.
  • Each recitation instructor will determine their own office hours and will inform you of them.

Schedule

Recitations

We have six recitation sections. The activities will be alike in all of them, though the manner of delivery may vary.

Section Instructor Day Time Location
601 Lan Li Fridays 1115-1310 Manning 0014
602 Lan Li Fridays 0905-1100 Manning 0001
603 Kenneth Gyan Fridays 0800-0955 Manning 0208
604 Kenneth Gyan Fridays 1325-1520 Manning 0208
605 Larry Jones asynchronous asynchronous online
606 Larry Jones asynchronous asynchronous online

Basics | sessions 01-03

Week of Monday 1st recitation session 2nd recitation session
06 January 2025
  • Wednesday, 08 January is FDOC, so we will have no lecture in this first week.
  • Starting in week 02, we will meet all together on Mondays, from 0800-0850, in Chapman Hall, room 0201
We won't have a lecture on Monday of the first week.
  1. There will be some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. We will then introduce the structure and plan for this semester's class
  3. You do have something to do in place of a Monday lecture, however. Watch this introduction presentation
Tasks 01a & 01b plus clients & servers
  1. Discussion posting 01a - introduce yourselves to your colleagues using Canvas
  2. Task 01b - subscribe to required newsletters and maybe think about optional ones as well
  3. We will introduce the concept of client-server relationships
 Conventions and Task 01c
  1. There will be a short discussion on open source computing
  2. We will introduce conventions we will use in INLS161-001 this semester
  3. Task 01c - look at the guidance for how and why to install a UNC VPN on your laptops
13 January 2025 Networks to connect clients and servers.
  1. Some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. a discussion on networks and protocals
  3. a discussion on the internet - a network of networks
 We will explore networks and protocols
  1. We will very lightly touch on some different protocols
    We may use the the traceroute (or tracert) command at the command line as a demonstration.
We will add two more tools onto our laptops
  1. Task 01d - add an SFTP tool to our laptops
  2. Task 01e - add a good text editor as a coding platform for the next module
20 January 2025
Servers and Command Line interaction
  1. Some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. We will then discuss operating systems and what they do
  3. We will introduce interacting with a server at the command line
  4. You do have something to do in place of a Monday lecture, however. Read this introduction
We will practice interacting with a server
  1. using the terminal application on our laptops to interact at the command line
 We will put our newly found skills to use
  1. Task 01f - creating a new directory on the server
Module 01 tasks Due by What to submit How to submit
to show your understanding of basic concepts and to prepare your environment for tasks to come Tuesday, 28 January 2025 at 2359 six individual tasks
  1. Discussion posting 01a
  2. Task 01b
  3. Task 01c
  4. Task 01d
  5. Task 01e
  6. Task 01f
 through Canvas
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Web Development | sessions 04-08

Week of Monday 1st recitation session 2nd recitation session
27 Jan 2025
We will discuss the concept of the structural layer of web pages and do an introduction to HTML 		The HyperTextMarkupLanguage and how it describes the "what" of web pages
  1. There will be some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. We will start with an overview HTML - its theory and syntax
  3. followed by a closer look at HTML tags,
  4. one specific tag - the anchor tag (or, hyperlink),
  5. and some terminology
 We will work on writing some basic HTML code To make an initial web page for Task 02a
Our code will pass W3C HTML validation.
03 Feb 2025
Last week we discussed the structural layer, this week we will discuss the presentational layer 		CascadingStyleSheets - the presentational layer
  1. There will be some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. "Presentational" means the rules that define the visual aspects of how a web document is displayed on a computer monitor
  3. CSS - the cascading: A good way to get a feel for the different level of cascading presentational rules is to practice with them.
We will add three levels of style instructions to our task 02a page to complete Task 02b
Our code will again pass W3C HTML validation.
10 Feb 2025
Monday, 10 Feb 2025, is a Well Being Day and there will be no lecture.
We will, however, cover lecture topics in recitations on Friday. 		One can either build a website by doing all the HTML and CSS coding, or one can use a template
... and, using our understanding of HTML and CSS, we can modify a template to look like and work like something that represents us
We will look at options and think about adding images
  1. some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. a discussion on why might we use templates and different sources for them
  3. your choice of editor depends on how you prefer to work
  4. working with images
 Recitations will be work sessions
Start to learn the components of your templates 		Start to design your task 02c
17 Feb 2025
Having discussed the structural and presentational layers ...
this week, we'll discuss the behavioral layer 		We considered HTML when we discussed the structural layer.
We considered CSS when we discussed the presentational layer.
This week, we will consider dynamism when we use scripts, as we think about the behavioral layer.
Behavior guided by scripts
  1. Some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. we will discuss serverside scripts and explain why we cannot use them on Opal
  3. we will follow with a discussion on clientside scripts and discuss where they may be useful on our websites
 We will discuss serverside scripts
And consider how to use such examples on our task 02c web site 		We will discuss clientside scripts
And consider how to use such examples on our task 02c web site
24 Feb 2025
Design thinking - keep the user in the forefront of your thinking 		It's very easy to become caught up in the coding; we need to keep users and user interface design in the forefront of our thinking
  1. Some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. thinking about design
  3. accessible design
 Keep working on refining your code while remembering to keep the user(s) of the site in mind
Module 02 tasks Due by What to submit How to submit
Module 02 | Web Development | completed website Sunday, 02 Mar 2025 at 2359 enter the URL for your completed web site in Canvas assignment
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Document Control | sessions 09-10

Week of Lecture 1st recitation session 2nd recitation session
03 Mar 2025
We will use the things learned about structural and presentational markup in task 02 to prepare a thesis ready for printing and binding in task 03 		We will turn to documents this week and begin to use our module 02 skills to format a document for printing in task 03
This week, we will concentrate of the structure of a document
  1. Some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. thinking about markup languages
  3. controlling structural elements
  4. controlling presentational elements
 We will get used to the document and the structural expectation
  1. exercises to practice some of the page setup tools

It will be important to have our document set up this week, so we can modify it next week.

 Then, we will apply some presentational elements to it.
  1. exercises to practice style creation and style modification tools
  2. exercises to practice adding structural elements to the text

Adding structural elements today will require having done page setup correctly on Wednsday.
10 March 2025 Spring Break Stay safe Get rested and rejuvenated
    17 Mar 2025
We don't want to have to use defaults for the look of our document. We will consider how to create our own styles.
We'll catch up on what we didn't get to in the first document week. 		Think about how you want your document to represent you in print, in look, in organization, in images
  1. Some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. thinking about our style choices
  3. create and use graphics in a document
  4. tying your heading styles to the table of contents tool can make your final product more useful
  5. understanding the why and how of indexes
  6. incorporating citations in a research paper
 We will apply the tools discussed in the lecture to our draft document.
  1. Using graphics in a document
  2. Create and use graphics in a document
  3. Practice with tables of contents
We will use the time to finish our conversion of a partly formatted document into one that could be submitted as an Honors Thesis.
Module 03 tasks Due by What to submit How to submit
Module 03 | Document Control | a thesis ready for printing and binding Monday, 24 Mar 2025 at 2359 Store your two documents
  1. one formatted to print out in letter size paper
  2. the second formatted to print out in A4 size paper
in your UNC OneDrive space. Share the two files with your recitation instructor ... 		and use Canvas to tell your instructor that you have shared the files with them.
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Data Control | sessions 11-14

Week of Lecture 1st recitation session 2nd recitation session
24 Mar 2025
In the data control module, and, while the tool is different, we will find many of the things we have learned in modules 01, 02, and 03 will be again applicable

Excel ... is deemed by many software engineers to be the most consequential program ever written, in part because it has been so widely adopted.

This week, we will concentrate setting up a worksheet/book, by understanding basic underlying tools.
  1. Some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. Data displayed in an X/Y axis grid, with cells at each intersection of each row and column, each of them individually capable of being formatted.
  3. Formulas are mathematical statements that apply to a cell, or, through vectors, to a range of cells.
  4. Functions are built-in specialized algorithms
 We will set up and start to modify our workbook in recitations.
  1. worksheet setup and formatting options
  2. how and why to set up a worksheet/book for printing
 We will apply functions and formulas that pull data from other worksheets.
  1. conditional formatting allows you to apply specific formatting to cells that meet certain criteria
  2. formulas and functions that pull data from a second worksheet/book to create new data
31 Mar 2025
With our worksheets and workbooks set up for us to use well, we will consider how to manage the data for our purposes. 		Sorting, filtering, pivoting
  1. Some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. sorting data helps you quickly visualize and understand your data better, organize and find the data that you want, and ultimately make more effective decisions
  3. filtered data displays only the rows that meet criteria that you specify and hides rows that you do not want displayed
  4. pivot tables are summaries of your data based on categories that you select
We will continue to modify our data sets to make them more useful for us
  • Sorting
    1. single value sorts
    2. multi-value sorts
  • filtering
    1. relative number filter
    2. multi-level filter with discrete values
 We will continue to modify our data sets to make them more useful for us
  • filtering
    1. multi-level filter with discrete and percentage values
    2. filter based on cell formatting
  • converting tabular data into a pivot table for analysis
07 Apr 2025
We will consider how to transform tabular data into a visualization of data 		We'll consider the why, the theory, and the history of visualization
  1. Some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. Thinking about the reasons and theory of data visualization
  3. using Excel to create charts
 We will create two charts
  1. a chart that compares values to categories
 We will discuss the source data and the challenges of charting poorly arranged data.
  1. a chart that compares multiple values by multiple categories in individual stacks
14 Apr 2025
As an introduction to relational databases, we will consider Entity Relationship Modeling and Structured Query Language terminology. 		Relational databases start with data modeling
  1. Some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. a relational database is characterized by multiple tables, with relationships defined between the tables
  3. an entity-relationship model (ERM) is an abstract and conceptual representation of data
  4. Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying data in relational databases
  5. Friday 18 April is a University Holiday so there will be no recitation this Friday.
We will practice SQL and use the rest of our time to finish our task 04 workbook
Module 04 task Due by What to submit How to submit
Module 04 | Data Control | a completed workbook Monday, 21 Apr 2025 at 2359 Store your completed workbook in your UNC OneDrive space. Share the Excel file with your recitation instructor Use Canvas to tell your instructor that you have shared the file with them.
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Presentations | sessions 15-16

Week of Lecture 1st recitation session 2nd recitation session
21 Apr 2025
Creating a professional, polished, productive presentation requires knowing the audience and knowing how to use the tools effectively 		This week, we will concentrate of the design of visuals to accompany a presentation
  1. Some preparation to do before each week's lecture
  2. Why do we need or want to have a visual display behind us when we give a presentation?
  3. Manage your visual presence by realizing what the presentation tools can and cannot do for you
We might consider what to talk about. And start to design a presentation that stands out from the run-of-the-mill ones we all too often see.
28 Apr 2025
Think about what you want to do, think about how people react to visual stimuli, think about how you manage your and their time. 		Understanding the tool, the audience, and the venue
  1. Thoughts to consider when presenting
  2. Design your presentation to flow smoothly during delivery
  3. Plan to narrate and deliver your presentation
 Monday is LDOC so we will no recitaions this week.

Everyone is invited to attend one of the Wednesday sessions.

 But you might want to check your design against the expectations for this final task.
Module 05 task Due by What to submit How to submit
Module 05 | Presentations | a professional presentation During Final Exam days. See the table below Store your .pptx document in your UNC OneDrive space. Share the file with your recitation instructor and use Canvas to tell your instructor that you have shared the file with them. And come to the final exam session to see and hear selected presentations and to hear commentary about how well the presentation worked.
Exam Day Exam Times For classes with this meeting start time during term Location
Thursday, 01 May 2025 0800-1100 0800 Mon/Wed/Fri Chapman Hall, room 0201

According to the registrar's Final Examination Schedule Spring 2025 ...

The time of an examination may not be changed after it is fixed in this schedule and has been posted on the Registrar's website. Final exams are scheduled by the start time and first day of week used by a class during an academic term.
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