Friday the 9th of May Week 11

Friday the 2nd of May Week 10

Friday the 25th of April Week 9

Friday the 18th of April Week 8

Friday the 11th of April Week 7

Summary of the Tutorial week 7- EndNote Libraries

1. Review the online referencing guide and include examples of referencing five different types of electronic format material e.g. a message posted to an electronic mailing list would be referenced as:
Hammond, T. (2000, November 20). YAHC: Handle parameters, DOI games, etc. Message posted to ref links electronic mailing list, archived at http://www.doi.org/mailarchive/reflink/msg0008.html
List the five references you have created in your blogg.
2. Go to Blackboard and first complete the “Endnotev11 Exercises for Vista".
3. When you have completed “Endnotev11 Exercises for Vista" open and save a copy of “Cite while you write Endnote Exercise”. Using the EndNote library you have created complete these tasks in italics in the document. Include a screen-capture of your resulting EndNote file and document and record all your results in your learning log.

Friday the 4th of April Week 6

Summary of the Tutorial Week 6- Evaluation and Authentication

Review the ICYouSee Critical Thinking page. http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html which has strategies for evaluating the information found in websites. In your own words briefly describe these strategies in your learning log. Now compare what you found with “INCO 48” webpage. http://www.taftcollege.edu/newTC/Academic/INCO48/sec6-4.htm or the “Good, the Bad and the Ugly” http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html and see if there are any further tips you can find.
Complete the "Reliving the Sixties: a Web Site Evaluation Assignment" exercise on the ICYouSee website. http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think60.html
You are asked to evaluate two of the websites on the list. Use the following criteria in your evaluation. ACCURACY ~ AUTHORSHIP ~PURPOSE ~ DETAIL AND DESIGN ~ OVERALL WORTH Note: Some of these sites appear to be unreliable and may not be accessible. Record your findings in your learning log.

Friday the 28th of March Week 5

Summary of the Tutorial Week 5- Using Search Engines

The first task for the tutorial today was to work through Monash University's excellent interactive tutorial on search engines and directories and to list four strategies that will help to structure a good search in our Learning Log.

1st Website- found at: http://www.monash.com/spidap.html

Four Stratagies:

1. Specific keywords

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