The IL in our careers exhibition (and our poster!)

Seven Wonders of Information Literacy (our poster)

This week we took part in the 'Information Literacy in our Future Careers' poster display at Firth Hall. Along with the other teams on the module, we created and displayed a poster about what we thought would be important information literacy skills to use in our future careers. We decided to focus our poster on the SCONUL 'Seven Pillars' skills model of Information Literacy, choosing the 'Seven Wonders of Information Literacy' as a basis for our design.

Having identified two different future career paths between the four members of our team (Academic Librarian and Information Analyst) we then put our minds to identifying the professional skills we may have in common. This was a useful exercise, as we were given an opportunity to reflect on our own professional aspirations in relation to Information Literacy, and the skills we might be able to bring to the workplace.

It was very impressive to see the kinds of ideas that other team members had come up with; some groups had clearly put in a great deal of effort. It was interesting to see how Information Literacy could be represented through different visual ideas and perspectives (including a superhero, a Monopoly board, a world map, Snow White, and others). It encouraged us to think about our own IL skills in new ways.

 The iTeam

Identifying an assignment topic

My topic of choice for the assignment will be microblogging, with reference either to information seeking and exploration (such as information encountering) or teaching and learning (such as the use of Twitter in the classroom).

This topic is highly relevant to our current information context and I am keen to learn more about the nature of microblogging and the opportunities it may provide. My choice of topic will probably become more specific as I proceed to gather information and determine the scope of the subject.

Thing 9 - Indentying your need - INF6350 Assignment Topic

We've been asked to come up with a topic for our assignment in the Information Resources and Information Literacy module. After some consideration of the broad areas, I focused in on the area of 'information behaviour'.

Specifically, my topic will be to do with Wikis (not necessarily Wikipedia itself), and how they can be used in learning environments (e.g. sharing information and  knowledge, collaborative work etc).