LBR 110

Effective Internet Searching

Due to low enrolment, LBR110 has been cancelled for Fall 2009. LBR110 will be offered again in Spring 2010.

PLEASE NOTE: LBR110 follows a hybrid format. Hybrid courses combine both face-to-face classes on campus as well as distance learning elements through the World Wide Web. In this course, we will use this web-page for the distance learning portions of the course, and meet in AA327 for the face-to-face portions. Please consult the syllabus for more detailed course information & this semester’s course schedule.

Thanks for your interest in LBR110. If you have any questions about the course, or the hybrid format, please contact Matt Todd mtodd@nvcc.edu.

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Course Materials

Syllabus (please print this for your records)

Week One: History and Development of the Internet & World Wide Web

Lecture:

Lecture Week One, part 1

Lecture Week One, part 2

Assignments:

1. Homework Assignment #1

2. Post on the course blog

Week One Handout: Why Effective Internet Searching?

WEEK ONE: MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT THE WEB

Week Two: Search strategies: Search like a pro

Lecture:

Lecture Week Two

Assignments:

1. Homework Assignment #2

2. Post on the course blog

Week Three: Searching the Invisible Web

There is no lecture this week.

Assignments:

1. Homework Assignment #3

Library Home Page: www.nvcc.edu/library

Week Four: Search Tool Analysis: Google & Beyond, and Under The Hood (How Does It Do That?)

Lecture:

Lecture Week Three, Part 1

Lecture Week Three, Part 2

Week 3 Handout: The Next Generation

Search Engine Relationship Chart

Search Engine News: Search Engine Showdown & Search Engine Watch

Week Five: Evaluating What You Find

Lecture:

Week Five Lecture

Exercise

Assignments:

1. Homework Assignment #4

More on Evaluation (from University of California Berkeley)

Week Six: Web Page Design: The User’s Perspective

Lecture:

Week Six Lecture

Week 6 handout (the GOOD and the BAD of web design)

Pages that Suck

Assignment:

1. Post on the course blog (Visit the College Website at www.nvcc.edu.  Use at least 5 (FIVE) of Jakob Nielsen's criteria to evaluate the college website.  Post to this forum with five critiques of the college website.  Feel free to discuss each other's observations)

Week Seven: Copyright and Internet Law

Lecture:

Week Seven Lecture, Part 1

Week Seven Lecture, Part 2

Week 7 Handout

Copy Right or Copy Wrong: Take the online quiz from the University of Maine Farmington

Assignment:

1. Post on the course blog (In Week Seven's lecture we reviewed some legal aspects of the World Wide Web, including copyright.  Many people do not realize that information, images, video, artwork, logos and other Web elements are subject to copyright law.  In our cut-n-paste society we like to view the internet as one free forum for the exchange of information and a laboratory for collaborative innovation. 

• Should the World Wide Web be completely unregulated, or should web designers and users be subject to rigid interpretations of copyright law? 
• Is the Web a forum for creative expression or a means of transmitting information?
• Is the current copyright law fair? Do you think the Fair Use doctrine is flexible enough?

Choose one of these topics to begin or participate in a discussion.

Week Eight (no class): Final Project Due!!

Webliography:

Due to me by 5pm on Friday of Week Eight!

How to write an annotated bibliography

Supplementary Materials

Resources

Additional Materials